4th Annual Symposium on Physical Concepts and Computational Models in Immunology

Online meeting | Collaborative Research Center Predictability in Evolution , University of Cologne
October 14 - 19, 2020

Wednesday, October 14

15:00 - 15:10   Michael Lässig
               Welcome

Session 1     Chair: Arup Chakraborty

15:10 - 15:40   Jan Rohr
               Collective behavioral regulation of T lymphocytes

15:40 - 16:10   Thomas Höfer
               The thymus at the edge of cancer

16:10 - 16:30   Break

16:30 - 17:00   Nina Papavasiliou
               RNA editing DNA mutation and effects on immune repertoires

17:00 - 17:30   Becca Asquith
               Inferring mechanism from immunogenetics associations

Thursday, October 15

Session 2     Chair: Aleksandra Walczak

15:00 - 15:30   Chris Illingworth
               Virus evolution in immunocompromised hosts: a window into viral dynamics and antiviral therapy

15:30 - 16:00   Anastasia Minervina
               Longitudinal tracking of T cell clones responding to viral infections

16:00 - 16:30   Shenshen Wang
               What the adaptive immune system learns from changing experiences

16:30 - 16:50   Break

16:50 - 17:20   Hedda Wardemann
               Insights into the development of the human immune response to a malaria parasite antigen through
                           functional repertoire analyses

17:20 - 17:50   Marta Luksza
               Evolution of tumors under immune selection

Friday, October 16

Session 3     Chair: Michael Lässig

15:00 - 15:30   Tal Einav
               Making maps and splitting serum: Quantifying our antibody response against influenza

15:30 - 16:00   John Barton
               Insights into viral evolution from temporal genetic data

16:00 - 16:30   Pankaj Mehta
               Adaptive immunity as a computing ecosystem: optimization and self-organized robustness in Treg-mediated self-tolerance

16:30 - 16:50   Break

16:50 - 17:20   Armita Nourmohammad
               Dynamics of the adaptive immune response: lessons from acute and chronic infections

17:20 - 17:50   Ville Mustonen
               Eco-evolutionary control of pathogens

17:50 - 18:00   Concluding remarks

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