Phd student day, May 3, 2024 - talks & poster presentations

10:00 – 11:10 Oral presentations - Chairpersons: HernánAndrésTirado

10:00 Welcome Speech – Prof. Christophe Pierreux

10:10 Insights on the interaction of the β-barrel assembly machinery (BAM) complex with stress-response regulator, RcsF (Reeda Harb)

10:25 Dual specificity of a T cell receptor in a CTL clone: targeting a TAP-dependent peptide derived from a tumor specific antigen and a peptide exclusively expressed on TAP-deficient cells (Florence Boon)

10:40 The failure to rescue an enzyme from autoinactivation causes an inborn error of metabolism (Jean Jacobs) - elected best oral presentation

10:55 GSK (Platinum sponsor)

11:10 - 12:10 Poster session & Chat with Sponsors

12:10 -­ 12:55 Oral presentations -­ Chairperson: chair: Mathieu Jamez

12:10 A pill a day to keep blood cancer away (Célina Nielsen)

12:25 TGFB1, TGFB2 and TGFB3 in systemic sclerosis (and other autoimmune/fibrotic diseases) (AnanyashreeKathotia)

12:40 Miltenyi (Platinum sponsor)

12:55 – 14:00 Lunch Break & Chat with Sponsors

14:00 – 14:45 Oral presentations -­ Chairperson: Camille Duflos

14:00 Investigating the Role of ROR2 in Regulating Tumor Immunity (Juliette de Lhoneux)

14:15 Suppressive neutrophils differentially affect subpopulations of CD8a+ T-cell (Nicolas Delhez)

14:30 Roles and therapeutic impact of miR-92a-1-5p in chronic myeloid leukemia (Joanne Péters)

14:45 – 15:45 Poster Session & Chat with Sponsors

15:45 – 16:30 Oral presentations -­ Chairperson: Lucas Potier

15:45 Unveiling the Intricacies of PD-1/PD-L1 Interaction: Insights into Intercellular Exchanges in Tumor-Immune Cell Crosstalk (Pierre-Hubert Desimpel)

16:00 Extracellular vesicles in red blood cell concentrates: development of an easy isolation protocol for a potential use in blood institutions and study of biogenesis mechanisms (Marine Ghodsi)

16:15 TGF-ß1 activating antibodies as a treatment for graft-versus-host disease (Severine Wautier)

16:30 - 17:00 Coffee Break & Vote for Best Presentation/Poster

17:00 – 17:30 Awards & Concluding remarks

17:30 – 18:30 Closing drink

18:30 Dinner

Organizing Committee: Reeda Harb, Célina Nielsen, Lucas Potier

A Special THANK YOU to our SPONSORS