Thursday 14 September 2023
Venue: Utrecht Science Park
Deadline for registration: Thursday 1 September 2023
The theme of the 2023 edition will be Mucosal Vaccination.
Previous editions covered topics like Lessons learnt from COVID-19 Vaccination, Vaccines and pathogen adaptation, Development of a COVID-19 vaccine, Structural Vaccinology, Novel Vaccine Platforms, The powerful contribution of vectors to vaccine-induced immunity, Vaccination in the Elderly, Maternal vaccination, Vector-borne diseases, Vaccines and re-emerging infections and Innovative vector approaches in vaccination.
The symposium will be open for all interested at no charge (we only ask a small compensation for lunch), it is however necessary to register below.
Program 2023
09.30 |
Cécile van Els, RIVM & Biomolecular Health Sciences, Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht University "Welcome" |
09.40 |
Gerco den Hartog, Centre of Infectious Disease Control, RIVM, Bilthoven "Mucosal Immunity, the very concept" |
10.20 |
John S. Tregoning, Infectious Diseases, St. Mary's campus, Imperial College, London, UK “Intranasal immunisation: the protective capacity of the Outer Membrane Vesicles (OMV) platform” |
11.10 | Break |
11.30 |
Camille Locht, Center for Infection and Immunity of Lille, CNRS, Inserm, Institut Pasteur de Lille, University of Lille “Immunogenicity and safety of BPZE1, an intranasal live attenuated pertussis vaccine” |
12.20 | Lunch break |
13.20 |
Shuran Gong, University Medical Center Groningen "Assessing human B cell responses to influenza vaccines and adjuvants in a PBMC-derived in vitro culture system" |
13.40 |
Joanna Kaczorwska, RIVM Bilthoven "Protective mucosal SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in the majority of the general population in the Netherlands" |
14.00 |
Rosanne Koutstaal, RIVM Bilthoven "Exploring RSV-B NS1 mutants in the context of a mucosal epithelial airway model" |
14.20 |
Wouter Jong, Abera Bioscience, Amsterdam "Bacterial OMVs as a robust and modular platform for mucosal vaccine delivery" |
14.40 |
Frank Wegmann, Janssen Vaccines and Prevention BV, Leiden "Mucosal Boosting Enhances Vaccine Protection Against SARS-CoV-2 in Rhesus Macaques" |
15.00 | End of the Symposium |