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 – 12:30Registration
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
13:501 plenary (20 min) and 3 short (10 min) talks selected from abstracts
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
15:501 plenary (20 min) and 3 short (10 min) talks selected from abstracts
16:50 Coffee break
17:00 Keynote speaker 1: Luke O’Neill (IRE), Mitochondrial Endosymbiosis and Inflammatory diseases: an abundance of therapeutic targets for inflammatory diseases
19:00 Dinner
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
9.201 plenary (20 min) and 3 short (10 min) talks selected from abstracts
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
11:351 plenary (20 min) and 3 short (10 min) talks selected from abstracts
12:30 Lunch
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 3 x selected short talk from abstracts (10min)
15:30Coffee break
16:00Round table: Diversity in Science and Career Perspectives
17:00Keynote speaker 2: Jeff Rathmell (USA), Metabolic Stress and T Cell Dysfunction
19:00Dinner
20:30Poster Session II

Day 3, 12 June 2026

TIMEPROGRAM
Session 6: Translational immunometabolism and new technologies
9:00Rafael Argüello (FRA), When glycolysis fails: the metabolic–epigenetic wiring of the glycolytic stress response
9:25Thekla Cordes (GER), Tracing the journey of itaconate metabolism
9:501 plenary (20 min) and 3 short (10 min) talks selected from abstracts
10:45Coffee break
11:15 Keynote speaker 3: Carole Linster (LUX), Damage is Inevitable and Repair is Essential – Also in Metabolism
12:00Awards and closing remarks
12:30FNR presentation TBC
12.45Lunch
From 13:00Departure