Tuesday, 13th October 18th International Symposium on Dendritic Cells 2026
Registration Open
7:00AM - 5:30PM
Tuesday, 13th October
Main Foyer
Plenary 4: DCs in Skin Immunity: Function, Communication & Adaptation
8:00AM - 9:45AM
Tuesday, 13th October
Point Loma 1 & 2
Chairs: Eynav Klechevsky & Björn Clausen
- What Makes a Dendritic Cell? Lessons from Langerhans Cells - Clare Bennett
- Commensal-DC interactions reinforce early life tolerance at the skin barrier - Tiffany Scharschmidt
- How tissues sustain resident T cell immunity - Laura Mackay
- Sequential priming by distinct dendritic cell subsets shapes effector CD4T cell fate - Yosuke Kumamoto
- Distinct dendritic cell subsets drive sequential T cell priming phases - Enrico Dotta
- Langerhans cells fine-tune axonal guidance of nociceptor neurons in health and disease - Yonatan Ganor
- Characterization of type-2 dendritic cell populations in skin - Olivier Lamiable
Coffee/Tea Break & Networking
9:45AM - 10:30AM
Tuesday, 13th October
Point Loma 3
Plenary 5: DCs in Mucosal Immunity, Homeostasis & Host Defense
10:30AM - 12:15PM
Tuesday, 13th October
Point Loma 1 & 2
Chairs: Andrew Harman & Yonatan Ganor
Sponsored by:
- Unravelling Dendritic cell-CD4+ T cell crosstalk in the inflamed mucosa of Crohn’s disease patients - William Agace
- Distinct antigen-presenting cells instruct divergent microbiota-specific T cell fates in the intestinal immune system - Daniel Mucida
- A subset of DC specialized in tolerance induction - Marco Colonna
- Dysbiosis-induced expansion of AXL-positive inflammatory type 3 dendritic cells triggers pre-clinical autoimmunity - Roxane Tussiwand
- STAT1 signalling shapes the function of type 2 conventional dendritic cells in lungs of weanling mice. - Kaushikk Ravi Rengarajan
- RORγt+ Dendritic Cells are a distinct lymphoid-derived lineage - Patrick Fernandes Rodrigues
- GM-CSF and specific type 2 cytokines induce CD103+ and CD301b+ cell states in cDC1s and cDC2s - Diana Dudziak
Lunch
12:15PM - 2:30PM
Tuesday, 13th October
Point Loma 3
Poster Session 2
12:30PM - 2:30PM
Tuesday, 13th October
Point Loma 3
- G-baToN: in vivo Cell-Cell Interaction Labeling Technology - Christie Chang
- Virus-like particles enable targeted gene engineering and pooled CRISPR screening in primary human myeloid cells - Carter Ching
- Assessment of silica nanoparticles internalization by alpha-type-1 polarized dendritic cells (αDC1) - Silvia de Jesus Mota
- Virus-like particles enable targeted gene engineering and pooled CRISPR screening in primary human myeloid cells - Jack Reid
- Production of dendritic cells from arrested myeloid progenitors at scale - Erron Titus
- Unveiling genes in dendritic cells that enhance T cell priming through functional single cell-cell interaction analysis - Camilla Valente
- Inducing regulatory dendritic cells with cellular reprogramming - Abigail R Altman
- FOOD AVERSION IN THE CONTEXT OF PEANUT ALLERGY - Marcos Felipe Andrade de Oliveira
- Tolerogenic dendritic cell-derived extracellular vesicles prime CD8 T Cells toward impaired immune synapse formation and reduced cytotoxic capacity - Daniel DB Beckers
- A critical role for RORgt+ DCs in viral-mediated loss of oral tolerance - Edith E Campana
- Single-cell multi-omics of human dendritic cell differentiation reveals subtype-specific disease risk mechanisms - Ofir Cohn
- Dissecting the development and function of PRDM16+ tolerogenic dendritic cells - Liuhui Fu
- Characterizing dendritic cells in APECED using an induced pluripotent stem cell model and multiplex tissue imaging - Eira Karvonen
- Transcriptional regulation of OX40L expression during dendritic cell maturation - Timothy Kung
- Dysregulated dendritic cell landscape in pre-systemic sclerosis across autoantibody subtypes - Heena Mehta
- Modulating innate signaling in skin antigen presenting cells using microneedles to promote antigen-specific tolerance in autoimmunity - Valinteshley D. Pierre
- Spatially organised IFNγ-instructed dendritic cell niches sustain human chronic inflammation - Andreas Schlitzer
- Erythropoietin receptor on cDC1s dictates immune tolerance - Xiangyue Zhang
- IFN-I–driven Ly6Chi myeloid cell expansion and anti-SSA/Ro autoimmunity are associated with myocardial injury in lupus - Haiting Wang
- Malignant cell-intrinsic Snai2 directs monocyte infiltration and differentiation in the tumor microenvironment - Molly Bassette
- Evaluating glioblastoma dendritic cell surveillance in aged hosts - Sarah L Cook
- Restraining intratumoral lymphangiogenesis improves dendritic cell maturation in the melanoma-draining lymph node - Naomi Besson
- Victory with Consequences: CTLA-4 ablation in Dendritic Cells defeats tumors but destroys Tolerance - Nalini Bisht
- Dissecting the origins, destinations, and roles of migratory dendritic cells in cancer - Alexandra Bowman
- Investigating how dendritic cells coordinate anti-tumor immunity in PDAC and neuroblastoma - Kate Carbone
- Mapping the CLCF1 Signaling Axis to Regulatory Dendritic Cells in KRAS-Mutant Lung Cancer - Sarah A Castro
- Tumor‑Derived Chemokine Shapes cDC1 Function and Trafficking to Tumor‑Draining Lymph Nodes - PIYUSH CHAUDHARY
- Type 2 conventional dendritic cells limit responsiveness to cancer immunotherapy - Nayvin W Chew
- Tumor dsRNA sensing drives antigen-specific T cell immunity via DC-dependent and independent priming - Therese Cordero Dumit
- Intrathymic dendritic cells contribute to immune dysregulation in thymic epithelial tumors - Silvia Della Bella
- Radiotherapy promotes the recruitment and activation of intra-tumoural DCs and enhances CD64+CCR7+ cDC2 egress to the draining lymph node - Christopher Jones
- Multi-compartment profiling identifies mature regulatory dendritic cells as a conserved immune state associated with effective anti-tumour immunity in early breast cancer - Hiu-Yan Lau
- Intratumor mature DCs enriched in immunoregulatory molecules support local CD4+ Foxp3+ regulatory T cell activation - Claire Murat
- Distinct stimulatory signals promote the diversification of cDC1 functional states in tumors - Nadine Nuschele
- Tumor cells dying of ferroptosis limit cDC1-mediated anti-cancer immunity - Lukas Ramsauer
- Dissecting the contributions of dendritic cell lineage and activation state to T cell responses in cancer - Erin Richardson
- Self-antigen disrupts cDC1 mediated antitumor responses - Megan K Ruhland
- HPK1-deficient dendritic cells overcome checkpoint resistance by organizing IFNγ- dependent immune niches in cold pancreatic tumors - Wanjing Shang
- cDC1 engagement induces Th1 differentiation and tumor regression in vivo. - Seonhui Shim
- Interferon-stimulated dendritic cells in the tumor microenvironment regulate immunotherapy response - Jason Shoush
- Polarization-dependent control of dendritic cell CTLA-4 transcription by a GATA3–C/EBP-β rheostat - Jonathan Vazquez-Perez
- CXCL9+ cDC1 define an early immune surveillance state in preneoplastic breast cancer - Aurélien Voissiere
- PSGL-1 expression on myeloid cells inhibits anti-tumor immunity and promotes melanoma tumor growth - Jamie-Jean De La Torre
- Tetanus toxoid preconditioning enhances dendritic cell vaccine migration and patient survival in glioblastoma clinical trials: experience with ATTAC and the validation ELEVATE study - Kristen Batich Vaios
- Inflammatory Conditions Determine DC Ability to Present Antigenic Epitopes from Cancer Cells and Generate Multi-Epitope‑Specific T Cells - Bowen Dong
- Polarized Dendritic Cells Are Efficient Ex Vivo Inducers of Multi-Epitope‑Specific T Cells for Adoptive Cancer Therapy - Bowen Dong
- Development and optimization of dendritic cell vaccines for breast cancer treatment - Pierrick GJ Fournier
- Immune Remodeling mRNA Drives Durable Anti-Tumor Immunity - Christopher Garris
- Evaluation of the anesthetics Sevoflurane’s and Propofol’s effects on the phenotype and function of monocyte-derived dendritic cells - Bárbara P Gustineli
- Solving the manufacturing bottleneck of GMP-grade DC1 for solid cancer immunotherapy. - Devi Jenika
- Short-Term-Activated cDC1s Synergize with PD-1 Blockade, Inducing Effector CTL Differentiation, Tumor Rejection and Immune Memory - Pawel Kalinski
- Autologous Dendritic Cells and Autologous Tumor Microfragments Reveal Specific Reactivity in 95% of Tumors - Michael T Lotze
- Mechanistic Investigation of Plinabulin in Combination with Datopotamab Deruxtecan, a TROP2-directed Antibody-Drug Conjugate Carrying a Topoisomerase 1 Inhibitor, Without or With Pembrolizumab - June Lu
- A single-cell atlas of dendritic cell remodeling across the human lifespan, vaccination, viral infection and SLE - Djamel Nehar Belaid
Parallel Symposium C: DCs in Infection & Immunity
2:30PM - 4:00PM
Tuesday, 13th October
Point Loma 1 & 2
Chairs: Michael Constantinides & Adriana Mantegazza
- Cellular Stress Meets Immunity: IRE1-Dependent Programming of Dendritic Cell Function - Fabiola Osorio
- PLASMACYTOID DENDRITIC CELL ADAPTATIONS UPON VIRAL INFECTION: HETEROGENEITY, FUNCTIONAL LOSS AND FATE CONVERSION. - Carolina Chiale
- Dendritic Cell Diversity During Blood Stage of Murine Malaria - Fernando B Sulczewski
- Defining the role of human anogenital antigen-presenting cells in HIV transmission - Andrew N Harman
- Inflammatory signals during viral infection and sepsis impact dendritic cell development - Regine J. Dress
- Deciphering the mechanisms underlying human plasmacytoid dendritic cell function and exhaustion - Dina Zangwill
- Functional heterogeneity of splenic DC2 subsets during acute LCMV infection driven by subset identity - Anne B. Krug
Parallel Symposium D: DCs in Tolerance, Allergy, Autoimmunity & Chronic Inflammation
2:30PM - 4:00PM
Tuesday, 13th October
Coronado Room
Chairs: Nicholas Adams & Roxane Tussiwand
- Signaling through erythropoietin receptors on cDC1s promotes immune tolerance - Edgar Engleman
- Pleiotropic IL-10 can drive opposite effects in dendritic cells following MHC-II restricted, antigen-specific tolerogenic immunotherapy - Rebecca Leylek
- SIRPα regulates homeostatic maturation of Notch2-dependent cDC2 and development of autoimmunity - Yasuyuki Saito
- Dissecting IL-10 signaling in myeloid antigen-presenting cells during colorectal tumor development - Björn E. Clausen
- Oxidized mitochondrial DNA drives pDC-dependent Tfh differentiation in autoimmunity - Hongxu Xian
- Single-cell spatial transcriptomics of fixed, paraffin-embedded biopsies links dendritic cell-enriched gut-associated lymphoid aggregates to an archetype of vedolizumab non-response - Alexis J Combes
- Reprogramming suppression: CD40-activated dendritic cells drive Treg-to-effector conversion - Vivien I Maltez
Free Afternoon
4:00PM - 7:00PM
Tuesday, 13th October
End of Conference Networking Dinner
7:00PM - 11:00PM
Tuesday, 13th October