Immunology Disease Day Friday 29 November, Rooms A&B

09:30 – 09:40 Crash course (or recap!) in immunology Calli Dendrou

09:40 – 10:00 Methods for analysing antigen-specific B-cells in autoimmunity, a neuroscience perspective Bo Sun (Bashford-Rogers group)

10:00 – 10:20 Tissue biomarkers for adalimumab in inflammatory bowel disease and rheumatoid arthritis: A parallel observational study Tom Thomas (Dendrou group)

10:20 – 10:40 Reverse immunology applied to vaccine design against flaviviruses Jose Slon-Campos (Screaton group)

10:40 – 11:00 Mapping the tick – human interface to develop new therapeutics Shoumo Bhattacharya

11:00 – 11:20 – COFFEE BREAK –

11:20 – 11:40 Genetic susceptibility to Rheumatic Heart Disease Kate Auckland (Hill group)

11:40 – 12:00 Linking disease-associated variants to target genes in type 1 diabetes Tony Cutler (Todd group)

12:00 – 12:20 A chromatin state comparative study of primary blood cell epigenomes unveils the relation between non-coding enhancers and immune disease activity Gabriele Migliorini (Knight group)

12:20 – 12:40 Investigating pathophysiological mechanisms shared across immune- mediated diseases Victor Yeung (Dendrou group)

12:40 – 13:40 – LUNCH BREAK –

13:40 – 14:00 Infection and inflammation in UK Biobank Amanda Chong (Hill group)

14:00 – 14:20 B cells and T cells in sepsis: Understanding the adaptive immune response Lauren Overend (Bashford-Rogers group)

14:20 – 14:40 The sepsis plasma proteome: patient stratification and sub-endotype discovery Yuxin Mi (Knight group)

14:40 – 15:00 Malaria – A battle for survival Kirk Rockett (Kwiatkowski group)