FIMSA Advanced Immunology Course (Virtual)
Time : August 19-20, 2022
Aug 19, 2022 (Friday)
Time: 1:00 pm - 6:15 pm (HKT)
Chairs: Profs Kathy Lui (CUHK) & Zhiwei Chen (HKU)
1:00 - 1:10
Welcome speech
Prof. Kathy Lui
1:10 - 1:15
Group Pictures with all speakers
1:15 - 1:45
Antigen presenting cells: processing and presentation of antigen
Prof. Sunil Arora
(Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education & Research, India)
1:45 - 2:15
T cell exhaustion and immune dynamics thereof
Prof. Yuzhang Wu
(The Army Medical University, China)
2:15 - 2:45
Programming of tissue-resident memory T cells
Prof. Laura Mackay
(The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, Australia)
2:45 - 3:15
A leaf of window opens for immunology when self-DNA become autoantigen
Prof. Sidong Xiong
(Soochow University, China)
3:15 - 3:45
Epigenetic dysregulation in immune-mediated disease
Prof. Esteban Ballestar
(Josep Carreras Leukaemia Research Institute, Spain)
3:45 - 4:15
Neutrophil-gated immune response during sepsis: lesson from intravital imaging
Prof. Young-Min Hyun
(Yonsei University, Korea)
4:15 - 4:45
Regulation of antibody production by T follicular helper subsets
Prof. Luis Graca
(University of Lisbon, Portugal)
4:45 - 5:15
The role of group 2 innate lymphoid cells in pulmonary diseases
Prof. Kazuyo Moro
(Osaka University, Japan)
5:15 - 5:45
The why and how of CD4+ T cells in cardiovascular disease and repair
Prof. Kathy Lui
(The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
5:45 - 6:15
COVID-19 vaccination and preventive efficacy
Prof. Zhiwei Chen
(The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Aug 20, 2022 (Saturday)
Morning session: 8:30 am-12:15 pm (HKT)
Chairs: Profs Jun Yu (CUHK) & Kwan Ting Chow (CityU)
8:30 - 9:15
Does the immune system think?
Prof. Tak Wah Mak
(University of Toronto, Canada / The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
9:15 - 9:45
Nuclear DNA sensor hnRNP-A2B1 in innate immunity, inflammation and cancer
Prof. Xuetao Cao
(Nankai University, China)
9:45 - 10:15
Germinal center T-B interactions
Prof. Hai Qi
(Tsinghua University, China)
10:15 - 10:45
T cell subsets in immunity and diseases
Prof. Chen Dong
(Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, China)
10:45 - 11:15
Understanding systemic lupus erythematosus: from bench to bedside and back
Prof. Chak Sing Lau
(The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
11:15 - 11:45
Mesenchymal stem cell transplantation for treating autoimmune diseases
Prof. Lingyun Sun
(Drum Tower Hospital of Nanjing University Medical School, China)
11:45 - 12:15
Gut microbiome in modulating anti-cancer immunotherapy response
Prof. Jun Yu
(The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Aug 20, 2022 (Saturday)
Afternoon session: 1:00 pm-6:05 pm (HKT)
Chairs: Profs CK Wong (CUHK) & Nancy Kwan Man (HKU)
1:00 - 1:30
Myelid-derived suppressor cells in early life
Prof. Jie Zhou
(Tianjin Medical University, China)
1:30 - 2:00
New immune checkpoints and cancer immunotherapy
Prof. Youhai Chen
(CAS Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, China)
2:00 - 2:30
How CD8+ memory T cells maintain their longevity?
Prof. Bo Huang
(Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, China)
2:30 - 3:00
The critical roles of Syk-CLRs in COVID-19 induced Immunothrombosis
Prof. Shie-Liang Hsieh
(Academia Sinica, Taipei)
3:00 - 3:30
Investigation into the role of microglia in brain injury
Prof. Jana Vukovic
(The University of Queensland, Australia)
3:30 - 4:00
AIM2 in TFH cell differentiation and its molecular mechanism in SLE development
Prof. Qianjing Lu
(Central South University, China)
4:00 - 4:30
Molecular control of regulatory T cell differentiation and function by Foxp3 and TCR
Prof. Shohei Hori
(The University of Tokyo, Japan)
4:30 - 5:00
Regulation of macrophage-mediated inflammatory responses
Prof. Xiaoyu Hu
(Tsinghua University, China)
5:00 - 5:30
Transplant immunology and oncology - the immune regulation on tumor microenvironment
Prof. Nancy Kwan Man
(The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
5:30 - 6:00
The anti-inflammatory mechanism of Interleukin-37 in atopic dermatitis: proteomic, molecular and animal approaches
Prof. Chun Kwok Wong
(The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
6:00 - 6:05
Concluding remarks
Prof. Liwei Lu
(The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)