Preliminary Program
3rd of September, Wednesday
11am Registration
11.45am Welcome Notes
12pm Burkhard Ludewig (CH): T cells at the nexus of acute and chronic myocarditis
1pm Tugba Ecem Sakalli: Exploring Sex Specific Differences in Fibrosis and Immune
Response to Experimental Myocardial Infarction using Single-cell RNA Seq
Moritz Beck: Transcriptional regulation of the TASK-1 potassium channel by the
transcription factor ETV1 – Implications for atrial excitability
Sana’a Khraisat: Telomeric Noncoding RNA TERRA and Its Regulatory Network in Murine
Heart Failure
Katharina Brandl: Deciphering the antigen presentation capacity in the post-MI heart
2.00pm Coffee Break
2.30pm Marko Šustić (CRO): The impact of latent cytomegalovirus infection on the mammalian
host in health and disease
3.30pm Moritz Wimmer: Antibiotic-Based Microbiome Screening Identifies Protective
Ligilactobacillus murinus in Experimental Hypertension
Alex Yarritu: Microbial Metabolites Promote Cardiac Remodeling in Chronic Kidney
Disease via the AhR-TH17 Axis
Roksana Soukhaklari: Is STING antagonist H-151 an anti-inflammatory option for
treating atherosclerosis?
Zeinab Mroue: Establishment of In Vitro Assays for Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor-Induced
Cardiomyopathies
4.30pm End of Day 1
7pm Dinner at Alter Kranen
4th of September, Thursday
10am Gustavo Ramos (GER): History of Cardioimmunology
11am Christian Schulz (GER): Hetereogenity of cardiovascular macrophage origins and
functions
12pm Lunch Break
1pm Method Pitches
Andy Shing-Fung Chan: Spatio-temporal dynamics of the cardio-immune niches during
lesion repair
Johanna Siegel: Dissecting antibody responses to cardiac receptors following myocardial
infarction
Anne Auer: Cardiomyocyte-based immunofluorescence for quantitative detection of
anti-myocardial antibodies
2.30pm Coffee Break
3.00pm Giuseppe Rizzo (GER): Single-cell technologies to study immune cell response in
myocardial diseases
4.00pm Poster Session
6pm Hike or City Tour
5th of September, Friday
9.30am Anna Lebedeva (GER): Productive cytomegalovirus infection in atherosclerotic disease
10.30am Career Session: Podium Discussion
Elisa Martini (Editor at Nature Cardiovascular Research)
Martin Vaeth (PI at Max Planck Research Group, Institute for Systems Immmunology)
Matthias Bach (Medical Science Liaison Manager, Cardiovascular & Metabolism at
Novartis)
Gina Hofmann (KOL-/Networkmanager at Novartis)
Pascal Benz (Trainee Commercial at Novartis)
Murilo Delgobo (Senior Scientist in Target Research at Immatics)
12.30am Group Photo + Lunch Break
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