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
Strategies to test the role of microchimerism in autoimmune disease through antigen-specific therapeutic development
Short talk: Haynes Heaton
Cellector: A tool to detect foreign genotype cells in scRNAseq data with applications in leukemia and microchimerism
Short talk: Blair Armistead
A novel approach to investigate breastmilk T cell antigen-specific responses
Short talk: Ashley McDonough
Detection and transcriptional profiling of microchimerism in the brain using snRNAseq data reveals prevalent microchimerism and diversity of maternal cell fates
Short talk: Bernadette L. Bramreiter
Characterization of human amniotic fluid stem cells and their potential role in maternal microchimerism
Coffee break & Industry exhibition
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Microchimerism and Kinship: Evolutionary Conflict, Tolerance, and Cellular Competition
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David A. Haig
Microchimerism and kinship: evolutionary considerations.
Amy M. Boddy
Consequences of being microchimeric. Im Abstract. Evolutionary perspectives on microchimerism
Francisco Ubeda
Fetal Microchimeric Cells: Today’s Enemies, Tomorrow’s Friends
Meet the speaker – networking event
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