Basic Science School: Advanced Immunology of the Liver; Deep Immunophenotyping of liver FNA and Resection Samples Using Multi-modal Techniques

Basic Science School: Advanced Immunology of the Liver; Deep Immunophenotyping of liver FNA and Resection Samples Using Multi-modal Techniques is organized by European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL) and will be held from Jun 27 - 28, 2025 at University of Oxford, Oxford, England, United Kingdom.

Description:
This School will introduce participants to advanced immunological techniques as applied to translational hepatology research. Students will participate in sessions that cover (i) experimental design of experiments that seek to used advanced immune techniques in liver research, (ii) data analysis of complex transcriptomic and cellular immune data sets, alongside hands-on wet-lab experience in both traditional and cutting-edge immunological techniques including interferon- gamma, ELISpot, multiparameter flow cytometry and single cell RNA sequencing. We will address ways to access and process liver samples for immune analysis, and strategies for comparative analysis in blood and liver.

Learning Objectives:

• To gain confidence when designing experiments using advanced immunological techniques including ELISpot, multiparameter flow cytometry and single cell RNA sequencing library preparation.
• To learn how to perform techniques including processing blood and liver samples for immunological analysis, multiparameter flow cytometry and single cell RNA sequencing library preparation.
• To understand the steps to analyse data derived from experiments using multiparameter flow cytometry and single cell RNA sequencing.