AGENDA

📅 Dates: 10-12th June 2026
🇬🇧 Language: English
🏫 Venue: Parc Hotel Alvisse, 120 Rte d’Echternach, 1453 Dommeldange Luxembourg

Day 1, 10 June 2026

TIME PROGRAM 11h00 – 20h30
11:00 Registration
11:45 – 12:45Lunch The “Pasta” Buffet
12:45Opening
Session 1: Metabolic regulation of adaptive immunity
13:00Claudia Mauri (UK), Two Paths, One Circuit: Metabolic and Redox Bases of Breg Action in Autoimmunity and Cancer
13:25Dirk Brenner (LUX), Metabolic Regulation of T Cell Function
13:50Alessandro Carrer (IT), Metabolic Control of B Cell Epigenome Degenerates During Aging
 
ST1: Emmanouil Stylianakis (GER), A single cell mapping of age-associated B cells reveals profound phenotypic plasticity and metabolic heterogeneity in aging mice
ST2: Mauro Corrado (GER), Cardiolipin deficiency exposes ferroptosis vulnerability in T cells
ST3: Marine Tronchon (FR), Metabolic reprogramming underlies differential longevity of skin resident memory CD8⁺ T cells
14:30 Coffee break
Session 2: Metabolic regulation of innate immunity
15:00Christoph Wilhelm (GER), Metabolic cooperations regulating barrier immunity
15.25Stefanie Wculek (ESP), How innate immune cells adapt to changing environments – diverse tales of mitochondria
15:50Karsten Hiller (GER), Mitochondrial Control of Innate Immunity: The Aspartate-Nitric Oxide Axis in Macrophage Immunometabolism
 
ST1: Jarit Cabanillas Aitor (SP), The role of the Electron Transport Chain in Trained Immunity
ST2: Danilo Norata (IT), GLP-1–dependent immunometabolic control of periprandial neutrophilia during high-fat diet adaptation
ST3: Silja Vittoria Malkewitz (SW), Radical Scavenging by 3-Hydroxyanthranilic Acid (3-HAA) Defines a Distinct Antioxidant Module of the Kynurenine Pathway in Arthritis
16:50 Coffee break
17:15Keynote speaker 1: Luke O’Neill (IRE), Mitochondrial Endosymbiosis and Inflammatory diseases: an abundance of therapeutic targets for inflammatory diseases
19:00 Dinner Buffet “Conférence”
20:30Poster Session I

Day 2, 11 June 2026

TIMEPROGRAM
Session 3: Immunometabolism in Chronic Inflammatory Diseases
8:30Michael Heneka (LUX), The dual and stage-dependent role of innate immune activation in Alzheimer’s disease
8:55Michela Matteoli (ITA), When Microglia Fuel the Developing Brain: Role of Trem2 in Neuronal Bioenergetics
9:20David Sancho (SP), A type-I interferon-mitochondrial axis regulates efferocytosis and Interferon Stimulated Gene induction in macrophages
 
ST1: Fabrizia Bonacina (IT), Srebp1c modulates Treg immunobiology through a phospholipid-dependent adenosine pathway
ST2: Lam Tân Khoa (CAN), Metabolic Rewiring Drives the Emergence of Protective Long-Lived Neutrophils in Rheumatoid Arthritis
ST3: Abhijeet Kulkarni (SW), Impaired L-phenylalanine metabolism facilitates pathogenic Th2 inflammation in severe allergy
10:15Coffee break
Session 4: Immunometabolism in Cancer
10:45Julia Jellusova (GER), GSK3 as a central Regulator of lipid metabolism and survival in normal and malignant B cells
11:10Claus Desler Madsen (DEN), Mitochondrial regulation in the tumor microenvironment
11:35Philipp Lang (GER), Improved T cell metabolism can boost anti-tumor effector function

ST1: Martina Erbi (NL), Development of a click-chemistry based glucose probe: single-cell in situ tracking of glucose uptake in the tumor microenvironment
ST2: Jose Aramburu (SP), Poorly perfused tumor regions harbor T cells with a glucose-dependent effector phenotype
ST3: Stephanie Sendker (USA), Dual Function Immune Metabolic Engager (DIME12) Potentiates Anti-tumor Immunity by Rewiring the Tumor Metabolic Environment
12:30 Lunch “Horizon” buffet
Session 5: Immunometabolism in Infections
13.30Johan Garaude (FRA), Microbial viability drives immunometabolic responses of macrophages
13.55Felix Wensveen (HR), War-time metabolism: How the immune system rewires the body to fight infection
14:20Marcela Hortová Kohoutková (CZE), Sepsis-induced long-term functional and metabolic rewiring in innate immunity
14:50 ST1: Maxim Nosenko (IRL), Methionine availability regulates immunometabolic response of NK cells upon bacterial infection
ST2: Hatem Abougueendia (FIN), Metabolic rewiring drives the feed-forward loop of inflammation and HCMV reactivation
ST3: Roland Lang (GER), Getting itaconate to where it matters in antibacterial defense
15:30Coffee break
16:00Round table: Diversity in Science and Career Perspectives
17:00Keynote speaker 2: Carole Linster (LUX), Damage is Inevitable and Repair is Essential – Also in Metabolism
19:00Dinner Buffet “Conférence”
20:30Poster Session II

Day 3, 12 June 2026

TIMEPROGRAM
Session 6: Translational immunometabolism and new technologies
8:30Rafael Argüello (FRA), Epic-SCENITH reveals metabolic–epigenetic programs induced by glycolytic stress
8:55Thekla Cordes (GER), Tracing the journey of itaconate metabolism
9:20Stefano Angiari (AU), Coenzyme A fueling with pantethine limits autoreactive T cell pathogenicity in experimental neuroinflammation

ST1: Yu-San Kao (USA), Metabolic reprogramming of interleukin-17-producing γδ T cells promotes ACC1-mediated de novo lipogenesis under psoriatic conditions
ST2: Marina Diotallevi (UK), A new NO-independent immune regulatory role for iNOS via protein-protein interaction with IRG1
ST3: Tjaša Frlic (SLO), Metabolic reprogramming during ex vivo expansion promotes memory-enriched CAR T Cells
10:15Coffee break
11:00Keynote speaker 3: Jeff Rathmell (USA), Metabolic Stress and T Cell Dysfunction
12:00Awards and closing remarks
12:30FNR presentation
12.45Walking lunch sandwich buffet
13:45Departure