Events

The team at the Doherty Institute is hosting an Engagement Symposium for the Cumming Global Centre for Pandemic Therapeutics, Bonn & Melbourne proposal to exploit the anti-viral host response for new therapies that combat future pandemics.

Join us at the Doherty Institute Auditorium with colleagues from Bonn, Germany on Monday, 20 March (2pm to 5pm).

Everyone is welcome.

PROGRAM

2.00pm: Welcome by Sharon Lewin

Deciphering the early immune response
Chair: Christian Kurts

2.05-2.20pm: Eva Bartok, University of Bonn: Early activation of nucleic acid immunity provides protection against influenza virus and SARS-CoV2 infection

2.20-2.40pm: Sammy Bedoui, Doherty Institute: Dendritic cells as key hubs for integration of early signals required for effective control of virus infections

2.40-3.00pm: Zeinab Abdullah, University of Bonn: Harnessing early immune response mediators that facilitate anti-viral defence and prevent pathology

3.00-3.30pm: Coffee break

Harnessing the early immune response for therapeutic benefit
Chair: Sarah Londrigan

3.30-3.50pm: Katherine Kedzierska, Doherty Institute: Defining early mechanisms underpinning severe respiratory disease as a path to new biomarkers and therapies

3.50-4.10pm: Anna Aschenbrenner, University of Bonn: Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic – how to understand a new disease with transcriptomics and Swarm Learning

4.10-4.30pm: Florian Schmidt, University of Bonn: Engineering innate immune responses with camelid nanobodies to fight infections

5.00pm: Event concludes.