Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre 24-26 November 2015 Monday 23 November, 2015 2:00pm 5:00pm Registration at Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre Tuesday 24 November, 2015 8:00am 5:00pm Registration Welcome and Acknowledgements 9.00am 9.05am 9:05am 9.15am Introduction and Acknowledgements Frank Gannon, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Welcome and Conference Inauguration TBA Session I: Keynote Opening session Immunotherapy: the basis of antigen presentation (Chair: TBA) 9.15 10.00am 9:15am 9:20am 9:20am 10:00am 10:00am 10:30am Introduction of Keynote (O1) Keynote Lecture I Rolf Zinkernagel, University of Zurich Morning Tea - Sky Foyer Session II: New cells and pathways to immunotherapy (Chairs: TBA) 10.30am-12.30pm
10:30am 11:00am 11:00am 11:20am 11:20am 11:40am 11:40am 12:00pm 12:00pm 12:15pm 12:15pm 12:30pm 12:30pm 1:30pm 12:30pm 1:30pm (O2) Antonio Lanzavecchia, Instituto di Ricerca in Biomedicina (O3) Carola Vinuesa, James Curtin School of Medical Research (O4) Gabrielle Belz, WEHI (O5) James McCluskey, University of Melbourne (O6) John Miles, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research (O7) Short talk TBA Lunch - Sky Foyer Lunchtime Workshop Immunoscore Multiplex IHC Session III: Novel Cancer Immunotherapies (Chairs: TBA) 1.30-3.30pm 1:30pm 2:00pm 2:00pm 2:20pm 2:20pm 2:40pm 2:40pm 3:00pm 3:00pm 3:15pm 3:15pm 3:30pm 3:30pm 4:00pm (O8) Holbrook Kohrt, Stanford University (O9) Mark Smyth, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research (O10) David Thomas, Kinghorn Cancer Centre, Garvan (010) Grant McArthur, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre (011) Short talk - TBA (012) Short talk - TBA Afternoon Tea - Sky Foyer Session IV: Chronic infectious disease (Chairs: TBA) 4.00-5.30pm 4.00pm 4:20pm 4:20pm 4:40pm 4:40pm 5:00pm (O13) Marc Pellegrini, WEHI (O14) James McCarthy, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research (O15) Michael Good, Griffith University
5:00pm 5:20pm 5:20pm 5:35pm (O16) Andrea Schuessler, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research (O17) Short Talk TBA Welcome Drinks Poster Session I (Sky Foyer) 5:35pm 7:00pm
Wednesday 25 November, 2015 7:30am 5:00pm Registration Session V: Autoimmune disease (Chairs: TBA) 8.30-10.30am 8:30am 9:00am 9:00am 9:20am 9:20am 9:50am 9:50am 10:10am 10:10am 10:25am 10.30am 11:00am (O18) Lars Klareskog, Karolinksa t (O19) Ranjeny Thomas, UQ Diamantina (O20) David Wraith, University of Bristol (O21) Michele Teng, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research (O22) Sumaira Hasnain, Mater Medical Research Morning Tea - Sky Foyer Session VI: Transplantation (Chairs: TBA) 11.00am-1.00pm 11:00am 11:30am 11:30am 11.50am 11:50pm 12:20pm 12:20pm 12:35pm 12:35pm 12:50pm 12:50pm 2:00pm (O23) Stanley Riddell, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (O24) Geoff Hill, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research (025) David Gottlieb, University of Sydney (O26) Short talk TBA (O27) Short talk TBA Lunch - Sky Foyer 1.00pm 2.00pm Lunchtime Workshop Regulatory Affairs and Clinical Trial Design Speaker John Rasko, Centenary, University of Sydney, Session TGA, VII: CNS Adoptive reps and Panel Cellular Discussion Therapy (Chairs: ) 2.00-3.30pm 2:00pm 2:30pm 2:30pm 2:50pm 2:50pm 3:10pm (O28) Gianpietro Dotti, Baylor College of Medicine (O29) Michael Kershaw, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre (O30) Scott Burrows, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research
3:10pm 3:25pm 3:25pm 4:00pm (031) Short talk TBA Afternoon Tea - Sky Foyer Session VIII: Where to with Immunotherapy? (Chairs: TBA) 4.00-5.30pm 4:00pm 4:20pm 4:20pm 4:40pm 4:40pm 5:30pm (032) KOL Pharma Invited Lecture TBA (033) KOL Journal Invited Lecture TBA Panel Discussion Challenges in clinical translation of novel Immunotherapy strategies Beer and Snacks Poster Session II (Sky Foyer) 5:30pm 7:00pm Public Forum I - Sky Room Followed by speaker s dinner 7:00pm 8:30pm Fight cancer with immunotherapy Moderator: TBA Patients Perspective: TBA TGA: TBA Clinicians Perspective: Holbrook Kohrt and Grant McArthur Q&A Session
Thursday 24 November, 2015 8:00am 5:00pm Registration Session IX: Novel Innate immune pathways to immunotherapy (Chairs: TBA) 8.30-10.30am 8:30am 9:00am 9:00am 9:30am 9:30am 9:50am 9:50am 10:10am 10:10am 10:25am 10:15am 10:30am 10:30am 11:00am (O34) Luke O Neill, Trinity College, University of Dublin (O35) Xuetao Cao, Zhejiang University School of Medicine (O36) Kristen Radford, Mater Medical Research (O37) Stephen Gasser, National University of Singapore (O38) Kelli MacDonald, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research (O39) Short Talk Morning Tea - Sky Foyer Session XI: Best of 10 - Young Investigator 1 (Chairs: TBA) 11.00am-1.00pm 11:00am 11:15am 11:15am 11:30am 11:30am 11:45am 11:45am 12:00pm 12:00pm 12:15pm 12:15pm 12:30pm 12:30pm 2:00pm (O40) Short talk TBA (O41) Short talk TBA (O42) Short talk TBA (O43) Short talk TBA (O44) Short talk TBA (O45) Short talk TBA Lunch - Sky Foyer Session X: Biomarkers and monitoring (Chairs: TBA) 2.00-3.30pm 2:00pm 2:30pm 2:30pm 2:50pm (O46) Dirk Busch, Technische Universitat Munchen (O47) Barbara Fazekas de St Groth, Centenary of Cancer Medicine & Cell Biology
2:50am 3.20pm 3:20am 3:45pm 3:45am 4:00pm 3:30pm 4:00pm (O48) John Connolly, of Molecular and Cell Biology (O49) Georgina Long, MIA, University of Sydney (O50) Nick Huntington, WEHI Afternoon Tea - Sky Foyer Session XII: Best of 10 - Young Investigator 2 (Chairs: TBA) 4.00-5.30pm 4:00pm 4:15pm 4:15pm 4:30pm 4:30pm 4.45pm 4:45pm 5.00pm (O53) Short talk TBA (O54) Short talk - TBA (O55) Short talk TBA (O55) Short talk - TBA Session XIII: Keynote Valedictory (Chair: TBA) 5.00-5.30pm 5:00pm 5:30pm (O56) Invited Keynote Valedictory Peter Doherty Meeting Close 5.30pm Conference Dinner Plaza Gallery, Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre 7:00pm 11:00pm Dinner Speech: TBA Entertainment by