Chemical Immunology Conference 2023

Following the successful conference last year, ICI will host the 2023 Chemical Immunology Conference again at Naturalis Leiden, on Friday June 9th 2023.

Theme and speakers

The line-up of speakers for the 2023 ICI conference will again cover the true diversity of chemical immunology. In addition, this year’s conference program will be in memoriam of Professor Dr. Huib Ovaa, our dear friend and colleague, who was involved in our ICI program from the very start, but sadly passed away in May 2020. For now we can announced we have confirmed two keynote speakers: Firstly, Hidde Ploegh from Boston Children’s Hospital who is well-known from his work on antigen processing, the use of ‘sortagging’ to study the evasion of the immune system by viruses and his more recent work on nanobodies. Secondly, professor of biochemistry and mass spectrometry Benedikt Kessler from the University of Oxford, whose work is focusing on the role of the ubiquitin-proteasome system in the immune system.

Program

08.45 – 09.30: Registration, coffee & tea

09.30 – 09.35: Opening Sjaak Neefjes, Leiden University Medical Centre

09.35 – 10.10: Hidde Ploegh, Boston Children’s Hospital
“Why immunology needs more chemistry”

10.10 – 10.30: Floris van Dalen, Radboud UMC
“Enzyme-activatable chemokine conjugates for in vivo targeting of tumor-associated macrophages”

10.30 – 11.00: Coffee break

11.00 – 11.35: Paul Geurink, Leiden University Medical Centre
“The Ubiquitin Toolbox”

11.35 – 12.35: Poster session

12.35 – 13.45: Lunch

13.45 – 14.20: Ton Schumacher, The Netherlands Cancer Institute
“Hallucinating TCRs”

14.20 – 14.40: Angela Elhebieshy, Leiden University Medical Centre
“Ubi-tagging: A ubiquitin-based modular platform for site-directed antibody conjugation”

14.40 – 15.00: Lotte Gerrits, Radboud University
“Immunobrushes for effective and selective expansion of antigen-specific T cells”

15.00 – 15.30: Tea break

15.30 – 16.05: Madelon Maurice, Utrecht University
“Huibiquitylation: from blue sky science to targeted membrane protein degradation in cancer"

16.05 – 16.40: Benedikt Kessler, University of Oxford
“'Dubbing' the immune system with chemoproteomics”

16.40 – 16.50: Announcement of poster prize winner & closing

16.50 – 18.00: Drinks

Unable to attend?

Signed up, but unfortunately unable to attend? To make your spot available for someone else, or to prevent cost and/or food waste, please inform us by email (ICI@lumc.nl) before May 26, 2023.