OVERVIEW

British Society for Immunology (BSI) Congress 2021 is organized by British Society for Immunology (BSI) and will be held from Nov 28 - Dec 01, 2021 at Edinburgh International Conference Centre (EICC), Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom.

Description:
This is the UK's premier immunology event attracting over 1,400 attendees to enjoy our extensive 4-day programme of cutting-edge research from leading UK and international researchers. Our Congress Committee have put together an inspiring programme covering the breadth of immunology while shining a spotlight on hot topics.

Plenary Sessions
• Calling time on immunology
• Defining immune microenvironments in organogenesis, inflammation and cancer
• Defining the state and functional relevance of T cell exhaustion
• Human genetic determinants of infection and inflammation
• Immunology in action: controlling COVID-19
• Metabolic programming of immune responses

Parallel Sessions & Poster Topics
• Advances in cancer immunology: bringing two communities together (joint BSI / NCRI session)
• Advances in the field of antigen processing and epitope discovery
• B-T interactions in health and disease
• Emerging functions of the Innate Lymphoid Cell (ILC) family
• Immune development and function from fetal to neonatal life
• Immune evasion
• Immune mechanisms in cardiovascular disease
• Immune memory and long term health post COVID-19
• Immune therapies and treatments for COVID-19
• Immunology at the interface: Understanding barrier immunity
• Immunology of neurodegeneration and regeneration
• Induction of immune tolerance
• Influence of co-infection on host responses (joint BSI / BBSRC session)
• Innate inflammatory signals regulating T cell responses
• Mathematical and systems immunology
• Myeloid cells beyond macrophages
• New perspectives in autoimmunity
• Ocular immunology
• Regenerative inflammation and tissue repair
• Regulatory T cells as therapeutic tools in autoimmune diseases and transplantation
• T cells and infection
• The influence of sex hormones and chromosomes on inflammation and immunity
• Understanding immunity through the RNA lens
• Unique immunological landscape of the tumour microenvironment
• Vaccines as a tool against AMR bacteria