Welcome note
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Microchimerism Across the Lifespan: Concepts, Mechanisms, and Clinical Frontiers
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Diana Bianchi, USA
Microchimerism: Past, Present and Future
Lee Nelson USA
Microchimerism in autoimmunity and alloimmunity over time
Short talk: Kristine J Chua, USA
What is Microchimerism? Defining and refining its characteristics
Coffee break & Industry exhibition
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Microchimerism, an infection-sensitive system influencing immune protection, tolerance, and long-term disease susceptibility across generations
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Whitney Harrington, USA
The intersection of maternal microchimerism and infectious disease
Short talk: Samantha de Freitas Cavalcante, Brazil
ZIKV exposure increases fetal microchimerism, including neural cells
Short talk: Isabel Graf, Germany
Placental extracellular vesicles indicate the vertical transfer of maternal microchimeric cells to the fetus in healthy and infection-affected pregnancies
Short talk: Gitte L. Petersen, Denmark
Maternal microchimerism at birth associates with reduced odds of non-malarial fever and respiratory tract infections in Tanzanian children
Lunch / Poster session and Industry exhibition
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(Micro)Chimerism & Treatment: Immune Tolerance, Transplantation, and Precision Therapeutics
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Michael Eikmans, The Netherlands
Consequences of pregnancy-derived microchimerism for outcome after transplantation
Anne M. Stevens, USA
Strategies to test the role of microchimerism in autoimmune disease through antigen-specific therapeutic development
Short talk: Blair Armistead, USA
A novel approach to investigate breastmilk T cell antigen-specific responses
Short talk: Yoan Ghaffar, France
Is the skin the preferred target of twin microchimerism in mice in all cross combinations: allogeneic, congenic and semi-allogeneic?
Short talk: Bernadette L. Bramreiter, Austria
An optimized flow cytometry-based method for the isolation of potential microchimeric maternal cells in human mesenchymal stem cells using monoclonal HLA class I specific antibodies
Coffee break & Industry exhibition
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Microchimerism and Kinship: Evolutionary Conflict, Tolerance, and Cellular Competition
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Amy M. Boddy, USA
Consequences of being microchimeric. Evolutionary perspectives on microchimerism
Short talk: Francisco Ubeda, UK
Fetal Microchimeric Cells: Today’s Enemies, Tomorrow’s Friends
Short talk: Ashley McDonough, USA
Detection and transcriptional profiling of microchimerism in the brain using snRNAseq data reveals prevalent microchimerism and diversity of maternal cell fates
Change location for meet the speaker
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Meet the speaker – networking event
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The Meet the speaker – networking event will not take place at the university. We kindly ask you to register separately for this event. Click here for more information and to register.