PROGRAM

Thursday 28th November 2024

Autoimmunity: from immunopathology to the bed side

 

 08:30 WELCOME COFFEE

 

9:00 INTRODUCTION

 

FONDATION ARTHRITIS SESSION – PhD grants

Moderators: Simon Glatigny and Patrice Decker

09:30 Norma SAAD, University Montpellier, France

Role of miRNAs in the pathophysiology of arthritis in patients with familial Mediterranean fever

10:00 Alejandro ARCO HIERVES, University Paris Saclay, France

Role of m6A methylation of RNA in salivary gland epithelial cells in Sjögren’s syndrome

 

10:30 COFFEE BREAK

 

FONDATION ARTHRITIS SESSION: EMERGENCE programs

Moderators: Jérôme Avouac and Claire Vinatier

11:00 Jérôme BITON, University Sorbonne Paris Nord, France

Involvement of SLAMF4 receptor in orchestrating the pathogenic cytotoxic immune response in rheumatoid arthritis.

11:30 Guillaume COURBON, University St Etienne, France

Fibroblast growth factor 23 production and post-translational modifications in rheumatoid arthritis: association with bone loss and iron metabolism

12:00 Maria NARANJO-GOMEZ, IRMB, Montpellier, France

Multidimensional analyses of the neutrophil immune profiling in rheumatoid arthritis patients

 

12:30 LUNCH BREAK

 

FONDATION ARTHRITIS SESSION: focus on rheumatic diseases

Moderators: Marion Espeli and Jérémie Sellam

14:30 Ulrich MEINZER, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

Role of the composition of peptidoglycan fractions generated in the gut and their dissemination on the development of chronic arthritis in children.

15:00 David MOULIN, University Lorraine, Nancy, France

Restoring tryptophan metabolism to treat rheumatoid arthritis.

15:30 Claire DAIEN, CHU Montpellier, France

Microbiota-gut-brain axis: prominent contributor to pain sensitization in patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis

 

16:00 COFFEE BREAK

 

PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE SESSION

Moderator: Florence Apparailly

16:30 Thomas PRADEU, University Bordeaux, France

Why immunologists have no other choice but to do conceptual & theoretical immunology

 

DISCUSSION PANEL/TABLE RONDE

Moderators: Laurène Bernard, Alexandre Maria and Yves-Marie Pers

17:00 Le regard des patients face à la recherche (in French)

AFL+ (Marianne Rivière), AFPric (Irène Pico-Philippe), AAI (Janig Kerouedan, Yann Cloarec), AFGS (Françoise Pellet), France Vascularites (Raphaël Darbon), Partenariat Patient Institut Imagine (Célia Cardoso)

 

19:00 GALA EVENING

 

Friday 29th November 2024

Immunotherapies: from oncology to autoimmunity

8:30 WELCOME COFFEE

 

METABOLISM AND IMMUNITY SESSION in partnership with the SIRIC Montpellier Cancer

Moderators: Nathalie Bonnefoy and Laurent Le Cam

09:00 KEYNOTE Max MAZZONE, Center for Cancer Biology, Leuven, Belgium

Harnessing tumor metabolism to overcome immunosuppression

09:30 Jean-Ehrland RICCI, C3M, Nice, France

Metabolic control of anti-cancer immune responses

09:50 Emmanuel DONNADIEU, Institut Cochin, Paris, France

Enhancing CAR-T cell migration by boosting mitochondrial metabolism

10:10 Valérie DARDALHON, IGMM, Montpellier, France

Metabolic reprogramming of T cells to optimize anti-tumoral functions

 

10:30 COFFEE BREAK

 

IMMUNOTHERAPY SESSION in partnership with Fondation Arthritis: the missing link between check point inhibitors and autoimmunity

Moderators: Anne-Sophie Korganow and Florence Apparailly

11:00 KEYNOTE Andreas RADBRUCH, German Rheumatism Research Centre Berlin, Germany

Immunological memory as a roadblock to regeneration of tolerance in autoimmunity". This will include targeting of memory plasma cells

11:30 Xavier MARIETTE, Université Paris Saclay, France

Anti-inflammatory biotherapies and cancer: the in and the Yang

11:50 Patrick BLANCO, CHU de Bordeaux

Cancer-derived peptide to treat autoimmune disorders

12:10 Mark PEAKMAN, Director of auto-immunity cluster, Sanofi

Novel medicines for immune modulation

 

12:30 LUNCH BREAK

 

CAR-T versus MSC-CAR SESSION: what have we learned from cell based clinical trials?

Moderators: Farida Djouad and Guillaume Cartron

14:00 KEYNOTE Daniel OLIVE, Marseille Immunology Biocluster, France

The Herpes virus entry mediator (HVEM) axis in cancer and autoimmune diseases

14:30 Iain MCINNESS, University of Glasgow, UK

Deconstructing synovial immune responses

14:50 Massimo DOMINICI, Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy

Gene modified cells to deliver deadly ligands and receptors

15:10 Karin TARTE, Rennes, France

Title to be announced

 

15:30 COFFEE BREAK

  

NEW TECHNOLOGY SESSION: therapeutic tools or biomarkers ?

Moderators: Marie Morille and Alexandre David

16:00 KEYNOTE Roy VAN DER MEEL, Eindhoven University, Netherlands

Nature-inspired nanotechnology for RNA delivery to immune cells

16:30 Philippe RONDARD

Innovative therapeutic tools for brain diseases

16:50 Martin VILLALBA

Generating CAR-like NK cells for autoimmune disease treatment

  

DISCUSSION PANEL

Moderators: Christian Jorgensen and Nathalie Bonnefoy

17:10 From bed to bed: how to make a link between academic research and medicine

Flash Biosolutions (Christine Duthoit), INITS (Christelle Rochon), UTC Rouen (Olivier Boyer), EFS (Hélène Rouard), CHU Montpellier (Guillaume Cartron, Alexandre Maria)

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SYMPOSIUM VENUE

ACCOMODATIONS

GALA EVENING

 

Gala evening 

 Thursday 28th of November at 19:00

Musée Fabre

 

55 € participation

Guided tour included

 

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