Preliminary Program

The conference will begin on the afternoon of Saturday, 13 June 2026, and will conclude with a farewell party on the evening of Tuesday, 16 June. We will make every effort to encourage speakers to remain for the full duration of the meeting to foster meaningful interactions, particularly with junior attendees.

Saturday 13 June 2026 

12:00 – 17:00Arrival of participants
17:00 – 17:10Opening remarks
SESSION 1
17:10 – 17:30Retrospective:
Juraj Ivanyi / George Wick: From an idea to a tradition: the story of the TATRA Conference
17:30 – 18:30Keynote lecture:
Jakub Abramson (Rehovot): From thymic mysteries to vitamin D
18:30 – 19:15Rising star 2025:
Thomas Krausgruber (Vienna): Contribution of non-hematopoietic cells to tissue immune responses during infection
19:20 – 20:20Dinner
20:30 – 24:00Welcome party

Sunday 14 June 2026

SESSION 2
08:45 – 09:30Steffen Jung (Rehovot): Embryonic and HSC-derived macrophages – origins can matter
09:30 – 10:15Peter Dráber (Lausanne): TBA
10:15 – 10:30Coffee break
SESSION 3
10:30 – 11:15Ludger Klein (Munich): Determinants of central T cell tolerance
11:15 – 12:00Rita Carsetti (Rome): Systemic and mucosal immunity: separate roles and integration strategies
12:10 – 13:00Lunch
13:00 – 15:50Afternoon trip and/or individual program
SESSION 4
16:00 – 19:00Dedicated yEFIS session:
Alena Kašpárková (Technical University of Ostrava, Writing Support Centre, Czech Republic): Academic writing workshop for early-career researchers

Part 1: Writing a scientific paper – with a focus on highlighting the impact of the research in the manuscript, developing a narrative structure and logical connections, communication of appropriate level of detail.

Part 2: Writing a grant proposal – tips for structuring and writing a grant proposal, insight into the evaluation criteria, differences between writing a grant proposal and a research article.

Next day, 15 June 2026, Dr. Kašpárková will be available for one-on-one sessions with junior participants to further discuss the workshop topics and address any questions that go beyond the scope of the main session.
19:10 – 20:00Dinner
20:00 – 22:00Social event hosted by yEFIS for conference participants

Monday 15 June 2026

SESSION 5
08:45 – 09:30Carolyn King (Basel): What are B cells doing during tuberculosis and does it matter?
09:30 – 10:15Kilian Schober (Enlargen): Understanding and engineering human antigen-specific T cell immunity
10:15 – 10:30Coffee break
SESSION 6
10:30 – 11:15Ondřej Štěpánek (Prague): Functional diversity of T cells
11:15 – 12:00Sarah Dimeloe (Birmingham): Metabolic control of T cell function
12:10 – 13:00Lunch
13:00 – 16:10Afternoon trip and/or individual program
SESSION 7
16:30 – 18:00Selected poster presentations (6 speakers, each 15 min., including discussion)
18:00 – 18:30Sponsor presentations
18:30 – 19:30Dinner
20:00 – 22:00Poster session (with refreshments and wine)

Tuesday 16 June 2026

SESSION 8
08:45 – 09:30Naama Geva-Zatorsky (Haife): Functional plasticity in microbiota-host interactions
09:30 – 10:15Jan Dobeš (Prague): Regulation of adaptive immune responses by non-classical antigen presenting cells
10:15 – 10:30Coffee break
SESSION 9
10:30 – 11:15Joan Juan (Lund): Early life imprinting of the adult B cell pool
11:15 – 12:00Bojan Polić (Rijeka): The role of IFNγ in systemic adaptations to a viral infection
12:10 – 13:00Lunch
13:00 – 16:10Afternoon trip and/or individual program
SESSION 10
16:30 – 17:15Jitka Palich Fučíková (Prague): The clinical relevance of tertiary lymphoid structures in ovarian cancer
17:15 – 18:00Christina Zielinski (Jena/Cambridge): To die or to kill – T cell cytotoxicity revisited
18:00 – 18:45Gerhard Krönke (Berlin): Resetting autoimmunity in immune-mediated inflammatory diseases
18:45 – 19:15Closing remarks
19:30 – 24:00Dinner and farewell party

Wednesday 17 June 2026

06:00 – 11:00Departure