Thursday 12 September 2024
Venue: UMC Utrecht, lecture hall Green
Deadline for registration: 8 September 2024
The theme of the 2024 edition will be New Vaccinations for Newborns: passive, maternal or active vaccination against RSV and other Pathogens.
Previous editions covered topics like Mucosal Vaccination, 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.
Program 2024
| 09.00 | Arrival and registration |
| 09.30 |
Alice Sijts, Biomolecular Health Sciences, Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht University "Welcome" |
| 09.40 |
Lisette Harteveld, Spaarne Gasthuis, Haarlem, NL "Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) prevention: perception and willingness of expectant parents in the Netherlands" |
| 10.00 |
Larissa De Brabandere, Centre for the Evaluation of Vaccination, Vaccine & Infectious Diseases Institute, University of Antwerp, BE "Confidence towards vaccination during pregnancy varies widely across the European Union" |
| 10.20 | Break |
| 10.40 |
Tim Beaumont, Department of Medical Microbiology and Infection Prevention, University of Amsterdam, NL “The discovery of a monoclonal antibody protecting newborns from RSV” |
| 11.30 |
Louis J. Bont, Department of Pediatrics, Wilhelmina Children's Hospital, University Medical Center Utrecht, NL “Maternal Vaccination against RSV: ins and outs” |
| 12.20 | Lunch break |
| 13.20 |
Chris Chiu, Department of Infectious Diseases, Imperial College London, UK "Unravelling the correlates of protection against RSV in a controlled human infection study" |
| 14.10 |
Rineke de Jong, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen Bioveterinary Research, Lelystad, NL "Bovine respiratory syncytial virus infection of calves as a translational model for evaluation of RSV vaccines and therapeutics" |
| 14.30 | Break |
| 14.50 |
Albert Bondt, Biomolecular Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics, Utrecht University, NL "Dissecting maternal and infant antibody repertoires using clonal profiling" |
| 15.10 |
Joost Snijder, Biomolecular Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics, Utrecht University, NL "Direct mass-spectrometry based sequencing and repertoire profiling of anti-RSV-F antibodies from human serum" |
| 15.30 |
Joukje Willemsen, Department of Pediatrics, University Medical Centre Utrecht, NL "Sustained neutralizing antibody levels against RSV in preterm versus full-term neonates" |
| 15.50 | End of Symposium |