🔬 About
This multidisciplinary symposium explores the fascinating interaction between microbes and the immune system and relation with disease, with a focus on the respiratory tract.
🎯 For whom?
Pediatricians (with interest in infections, immunology and pulmonary diseases) • Microbiologists •
Immunologists • and those in training (residents/PhD candidates)
🎓 Speakers:
* Prof. Clare Lloyd – Respiratory Immunology, Imperial College, London
* Dr. Wendy Unger – Infection & Immunity Group Pediatrics, ErasmusMC Rotterdam
* Prof. Hermelijn Smits – Department of Immunology, Leiden University Medical Center
* Dr. Olaf Perdijk – Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences, Utrecht University
🎙 Preliminary program:
13.30-13.35 Opening
13.35-14.10 Key note 1 Clare Lloyd – Immune cell interactions in the lung
14.10-14.20 Paper presenta’on Olaf Perdijk – Antibiotic-driven dysbiosis in early life and
allergic airway inflammation
14.20-14.55 Key note 2 Wendy Unger – Colonisation and infection in the airways
14.55-15.15 Break
15.15-15.50 Key note 3 Hermelijn Smits – Immune-modulating molecules and
prevention of respiratory tract infections
15.50-16.40 Thesis talks 4 nominees with a recent thesis in ID, microbiology
and/or immunology present their research work
16.40-16:50 Thesis award and closure
17.00-18.00 Drinks & bites
📢 Registration & info:
Please register (entrance is free) via: hdps://forms.gle/F8Xv3ufRHR2gL9PV9
👉 Accreditation is being requested
📧 Organised by the section Pediatric Infec’ous diseases and Immunity (SPII) of the Dutch Pediatric Association
