Frontiers in Human and Veterinary Antibody Research

The meeting is being organised by newly relaunched Comparative Veterinary Immunology Group (CVIG) of The British Society of Immunology (BSI) in conjunction with The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) and the UK Veterinary Vaccinology Network (VVN).  

It is an excellent opportunity to join a great line-up ofinternational experts and to discuss the latest developments in this field.  

**New** Travel Scholarships

The Veterinary Vaccinology Network now has travel scholarships worth £150 for early career researchers from the UK to attend this meeting.

Applicants must be ECRs (PhD students or postdocs) based at a UK research organisation and applicants must be VVN members.

Apply by 10 August 2018.

Full details available here

The CVIG committee

Elma Tchilian – The Pribright Institute

Sean Wattegedera  – Moredun Research Institute, Pentland Science Park, Midlothian

Linda Wooldridge – Bristol Vet School

Lindert Benedictus – Roslin Institute University of Edinburgh

Provisional Programme

Monday 26 November

10:00: Registration and refreshments

10:50: Welcome

Session 1: Structure guided immunogen design

11:00 Peter Kwong, National Institutes of Health, USA

11:30 Sarel Fleishman, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

12:00 Simon Draper, University of Oxford, UK

12:30 Andrew Martin, University College London, UK

13:00: Lunch

Session 2: Antibodies of animal and human

14:00 Mike Criscitiello,Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine, USA

14:30 Deborah Dunn-Walters, University of Surrey, UK

15:00 John Hammond, The Pirbright Institute, UK

15:30: Refreshments

Session 3: B cell help and regulation

16:00 Seph Borrow, University of Oxford, UK

16:30 Michelle Linterman, Babraham Institute, UK

17:00 Claudia Mauri, University College London, UK

17:30 Mala Maini, University College London, UK

19:00: Conference dinner

Tuesday 27 November

Session 4: Translating antibodies – Therapeutics and adjuvants

09:00 Jacqueline Achkar, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, USA

09:30 Davide Corti, HuMabs, Switzerland

10:00 Richard Pleass, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UK

10:30: Refreshments

Session 5: Identification of antigen targets and epitopes

11:00 David Stuart, University of Oxford, UK

11:30 Alain Townsend, University of Oxford, UK

12:00 Bruno Correia, EPFL, Switzerland

12:30 Velislava Petrova, Wellcome Sanger Institute, UK

13:00: Lunch

Session 6: B cell biology in health and disease

14:00 Ad Koets, Wageningen Bioveterinary Research, Netherlands

14:30 Ramit Mehr, Bar-llan University, Israel

15:00 Anne Corcoran, Babraham Institute, UK

15:30: Wrap up – closing remarks

Tea/Coffee & Networking