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) 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 (Ch airs: TBA) 10.30am 12.30pm 10:30am 10:50am 10:50am 11:10am 11:10am 11:30am 11:30am 11:50pm 11:50pm 12:10pm 12:10pm 12:25pm (O2) Carola Vinuesa (JCSMR) (O3) Gabrielle Belz (WEHI) (O4) James McCluskey (University of Melbourne) (O5) John Miles (QIMR Berghofer) (O6) Michael Kershaw (Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre) (07) Short talk 12:25pm 1:30pm 12:30pm 1:30pm 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) (O10) David Thomas (Kinghorn Cancer Centre, Garvan) (010) Grant McArthur (Peter Mac) (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 (O13) Marc Pellegrini (WEHI) (O14) James McCarthy (QIMR Berghofer)
4:40pm 5:00pm 5:00pm 5:20pm 5:20pm 5:35pm (O15) Michael Good (Griffith University) (O16) Andrea Schuessler (QIMR Berghofer) (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 Institutet) (O19) Ranjeny Thomas (UQDI) (O20) David Wraith (University of Bristol) (O21) (Biocon Speaker TBA) (O22) Sumaira Hasnain (Mater Medical Research Institute) 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 1:50pm (O23) Stanley Riddell (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center) (O24) Geoff Hill (QIMR Berghofer) (025) David Gottlieb (University of Sydney) (O26) Short talk TBA (O27) Short talk TBA Lunch (Sky Foyer) 1.00pm 1.50pm Lunchtime Workshop Regulatory Affairs and Clinical Trial Design Speaker John Rasko (Centenary, University of Sydney), TGA, CNS reps and Panel Discussion
Session VII: Immunotherapies for virus infection and cancer (Chairs: ) 2.00 3.30pm 1.50pm 2:20pm 2:20pm 2:50pm 2:50pm 3:10pm 3:10pm 3:30pm 3:30pm 4:00pm (O27) Antonio Lanzavecchia EMBO Keynote Lecture (Instituto di Ricerca in Biomedicina) (O28) Gianpietro Dotti (Baylor College of Medicine) (O30) Scott Burrows (QIMR Berghofer) (031) Michele Teng (QIMR Berghofer) 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 26 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 Institute) (O37) Stephen Gasser (National University of Singapore) (O38) Kelli MacDonald (QIMR Berghofer) (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 2:50am 3.20pm (O46) Dirk Busch (Technische Universitat Munchen) (O47) Barbara Fazekas de St Groth (Centenary, Sydney) (O48) John Connolly (Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology)
3:20am 3:45pm 3:45am 4:00pm 3:30pm 4:00pm (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 at Brisbane Convention Centre (Plaza Gallery) 7:00pm 11:00pm Dinner Speech: TBA Entertainment by