Scientific Program
6th INTERNATIONAL MOLECULAR IMMUNOLOGY &
IMMUNOGENETICS CONGRESS (MIMIC-VI)
April 28 – 30, 2025 | Acıbadem University, İstanbul Türkiye
| MONDAY, APRIL 28th, 2025 | ||||
| 09:00 – 10:30 | REGISTRATION | |||
| 10:30 – 11:30 | OPENING CEREMONY | Moderators: Tolga Sütlü, İhsan Gürsel | ||
| Opening Speeches by the Host and Organizers | ||||
| 11:30 – 12:30 | KEYNOTE LECTURE | Moderators: Günnur Deniz, Barbaros Oral | ||
| Federica Sallusto | ETH Zurich, CH | Human T cells: differentiation, defense, and regulation | ||
| 12:30 – 13:00 | CONGRESS PHOTO SHOOT (MAIN HALL STAGE) | |||
| 13:00 – 14:00 | LUNCH BREAK | |||
| 14:00 – 15:30 | IMMUNE RESPONSE TO INFECTION | Moderators: Mayda Gürsel, Akif Turna | ||
| 14:00 – 14:30 | Cevayir Çoban | The University of Tokyo, JP | Host-Plasmodium interactions: One step closer to malaria vaccines | |
| 14:30 – 15:00 | Önder Ergönül | Koç University, TR | Emerging Infections and Immunology | |
| 15:00 – 15:15 | Mehmet Karaçay | Istanbul Technical University, TR | OP-01 Investigation of SARS-CoV-2 Nucleocapsid and Spike N501Y Variant-Specific IgG Subtypes in Convalescent Pediatric Patients from COVID-19 Using Multiplex Flow Cytometric Bead-Based Assay |
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| 15:15 – 15:30 | Deniz Baybağ | Acibadem University, TR | OP-02 Development and Evaluation of the Efficacy of a Novel Monoclonal Antibody Targeting CX3CR1 for Pain Relief in Pancreatic Cancer, Chronic and Acute Pancreatitis |
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| 15:30 – 16:00 | SATELLITE SYMPOSIUM  From Concept to Cure: The Role of Platform Development in Cell Therapy Speaker: Érica A. Schulze |
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| 16:00 – 16:30 | COFFEE BREAK | |||
| 16:30 – 18:30 | CANCER IMMUNOLOGY AND IMMUNOTHERAPY |
Moderators: Güneş Esendağlı, Ceren Çıracı | ||
| 16:30 – 17:00 | Carsten Watzl | Technical University Dortmund, DE | Insights into NK cell cytotoxicity – how to select the best (serial) killer for cancer therapy? | |
| 17:00 – 17:30 | Mustafa Diken | Johannes Gutenberg University, DE | mRNA based cancer therapeutics | |
| 17:30 – 18:00 | Defne Bayık | University of Miami, USA | Biological sex at the intersection of cancer-neuro-immune crosstalk | |
| 18:00 – 18:15 | Betül Çakıcı | Acibadem University, TR | OP-3 End-to-end Vector and Process Development for Clinically Applicable CD19-targeted CAR-T Cell Production in Türkiye |
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| 18:15 – 18:30 | Hamdullah Yanık | Hacettepe University, TR | OP-4 Characterization of tumor-infiltrating CD66b+ monocyte subset discloses NF-kB-mediated differentiation |
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| 18:30 – 19:00 | COFFEE BREAK | |||
| 19:00 – 21:00 | TSI GENERAL ASSEMBLY MEETING | |||
| TUESDAY, APRIL 29th, 2025 | ||||
| 09:00 – 10:30 | IMMUNE SYSTEM IN HEALTH AND DISEASE | Moderators: Arzu Aral, Batu Erman | ||
| 09:00 – 09:30 | Bernard Malissen | Centre d’Immunologie INSERM-CNRS, FR | Unveiling the molecular basis of T cell malfunctions and disorders using quantitative interactomics | |
| 09:30 – 10:00 | Sidonia Fagarasan | RIKEN, JP | The intersection of innate and adaptive immunity in the lung: implications for chronic pulmonary insufficiency | |
| 10:00 – 10:15 | Yavuz F. Yazıcıoğlu | University of Oxford, UK | OP-5 Asparagine availability controls germinal center B cell homeostasis |
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| 10:15 – 10:30 | Atakan Ekiz | İzmir Institute of Technology, TR | OP-6 Investigating the tumor immune microenvironment through innovative data analysis interfaces |
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| 10:30 – 11:00 | SATELLITE SYMPOSIUM  BD FACSDiscover™️ A8, The First Spectral Cell Analyzer with Real-Time Imaging Speaker: Tim Schenkel |
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| 11:00 – 11:30 | COFFEE BREAK | |||
| 11:30 – 13:00 | MOLECULAR MECHANISMS IN AUTOIMMUNITY | Moderators: Güher Saruhan Direskeneli, Eda Tahir Turanlı | ||
| 11:30 – 12:00 | Andreas Radbruch | Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, DE | Immunological memory – a roadblock to regeneration of tolerance in autoimmunity | |
| 12:00 – 12:15 | Atay Vural | Koç University, TR | OP-7 Innate lymphocyte activation and interferon-driven pathways in Behçet’s disease skin lesions |
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| 12:15 – 12:30 | Cemre Aktaş | Istanbul University, TR | OP-8 Phosphorylation of signaling molecules in peripheral and thymic B cells and responses to T follicular helper cell-related cytokines in myasthenia gravis |
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| 12:30 – 12:45 | Fatma Betül Öktelik | Istanbul University, TR | OP-9 CD22 Defines a Core Follicular Regulatory T Cell Subset that Controls the Antibody Response |
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| 12:45 – 13:30 | BALLOON RELEASE EVENT IN CELEBRATION OF “DAY OF IMMUNOLOGY” & “WORLD PRIMARY IMMUNODEFICIENCY WEEK” | |||
| 13:30 – 14:30 | LUNCH BREAK | |||
| 14:30 – 16:30 | INBORN ERRORS OF IMMUNITY | Moderators: Yıldız Camcıoğlu, Ahmet Özen | ||
| 14:30 – 15:00 | Talal Chatila | Boston Children’s Hospital, USA | Immunoregulatory Functions of DOCK/STAT Complexes | |
| 15:00 – 15:30 | Elif Karakoç Aydıner | Marmara University, TR | Targeted Therapies in Inborn Errors of Immunity | |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | Baran Erman | Hacettepe University, TR | Inborn errors of immunity research in Türkiye: Results from a specialized research center “Can Sucak Lab” | |
| 16:00 – 16:15 | Gözde Arslan | Bursa Uludağ University, TR | OP-10 Therapeutic Use of Bone Marrow-Derived Tolerogenic Dendritic Cells Modified by Lentiviral Transduction in CIA Model |
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| 16:15 – 16:30 | Semra Demir | Istanbul University, TR | OP-11 B and T Lymphocyte Subgroups in Patients with Selective IgA Deficiency |
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| 16:30 – 17:00 | COFFEE BREAK | |||
| 17:00 – 18:00 | DAY OF IMMUNOLOGY LECTURE | Moderator: Günnur Deniz (EFIS President-elect) | ||
| Bojan Polic | EFIS President. University of Rijeka, HR | The immunology of sickness metabolism caused by a viral infection | ||
| 18:00 – 20:00 | POSTER SESSION | |||
| WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30th, 2025 | ||||
| 09:00 – 10:30 | EXOSOMES AND THE IMMUNE SYSTEM | Moderators: İhsan Gürsel, Sinem Öktem Okullu | ||
| 09:00 – 09:30 | Edit Buzas | Semmelweis University, HU | A fresh look at classic immunology through the perspective of extracellular vesicles | |
| 09:30 – 10:00 | Susanne Gabrielsson | Karolinska Institutet, SE | Dendritic cell derived extracellular vesicles for immune therapy of cancer | |
| 10:00 – 10:15 | İsmail Cem Yılmaz | İzmir Biomedicine and Genome Center, TR | OP-12 Leishmania infantum Extracellular Vesicles Mediate Protection from Visceral Leishmaniasis and Long-Term Cross Protection from Cutaneous Leishmaniasis |
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| 10:15 – 10:30 | İrem Evcili | İzmir Biomedicine and Genome Center, TR | OP-13 Immunological Profiling Following SARS-CoV-2 Vaccination |
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| 10:30 – 11:00 | SATELLITE SYMPOSIUM  Advice and Advancements for the Flow Cytometric Analysis and Sorting of Extracellular Vesicles Speaker: Owen Hughes |
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| 11:00 – 11:30 | COFFEE BREAK | |||
| 11:30 – 13:00 | EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES IN IMMUNOLOGY | Moderators: Tolga Sütlü, Uğur Sezerman | ||
| 11:30 – 12:00 | Erdinç Sezgin | Karolinska Institutet, SE | EMBO Young Investigator Lecture  Physics of cells as a measure of immune cell functional states |
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| 12:00 – 12:30 | Begüm Horuluoğlu | Karolinska Institutet, SE | Tissue-resident memory T cells identified in the muscle of patients with myositis using single-cell RNA sequencing | |
| 12:30 – 12:45 | Elif Çelik | Acibadem University, TR | OP-14 Discovery of Tumor-Specific T Cell Receptors Through Single-Cell Sequencing of Tumor-Infiltrating Lymphocytes in Melanoma |
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| 12:45 – 13:00 | Ebru Kocakaya | Ege University, TR | OP-15 Investigating alternative polyadenylation sites in tumor-associated macrophage differentiation at single-cell resolution |
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| 13:00 – 13:30 | SATELLITE SYMPOSIUM  Advancing Immunology with 10X Genomics: Single-Cell & Spatial Innovations Speaker: Bio Koen De Gelas |
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| 13:30 – 14:30 | LUNCH BREAK | |||
| 14:30 – 16:30 | FUTURE VACCINES AND IMMUNOTHERAPIES | Moderators: Ayça Sayı Yazgan, Selim Badur | ||
| 14:30 – 15:00 | Ken J. İshii | The University of Tokyo, JP | Chemical switch between A-B-Z form nucleic acids for the in situ Immunotherapy | |
| 15:00 – 15:30 | Rafet Başar | MD Anderson Cancer Center, USA | Advancing Cancer Immunotherapy: The Emerging Role of Engineered NK Cells. | |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | Dennis Watson | University of Miami, USA | Intercellular metabolic crosstalk as an immunotherapy target in brain tumors | |
| 16:00 – 16:15 | Zeynep Arzum | İzmir Biomedicine and Genome Center, TR | OP-16 Enhancing the Breadth of Protection from Neisseria Meningitidis Infection via Bivalent OMV Vaccine |
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| 16:15 – 16:30 | Gizem Çile | Acibadem University, TR | OP-17 Production of nanobodies targeting IL-1R1 (interleukin-1 receptor type 1) |
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| 16:30 – 17:00 | COFFEE BREAK | |||
| 17:00 – 17:45 | IŞIL BERAT BARLAN AWARD CEREMONY | Moderators: Günnur Deniz, Güher Saruhan Direskeneli | ||
| 17:45 – 18:30 | CLOSING CEREMONY | |||
