Myeloid Cells: Orchestrators of Immunity in Health, Disease and Therapy; Transposable Elements: From Evolution to Engineering
Published in Bioengineering & Biotechnology, Cancer, and Genetics & Genomics
Myeloid Cells: Orchestrators of Immunity in Health, Disease and Therapy
March 15 - 18, 2027 @ INEC Killarney Convention Center, Killarney, KY, Ireland
Important Deadlines
Early Registration Deadline: January 14, 2027
Scholarship Deadline: November 18, 2026
Short Talk Abstract Deadline: November 18, 2026
Poster Abstract Deadline: February 23, 2027
Meeting Summary
Title: Myeloid Cells: Orchestrators of Immunity in Health, Disease and Therapy
Date: March 15 - 18, 2027
Location: INEC Killarney Convention Center, Killarney, KY, Ireland
Scientific Organizers: Julie Helft, Matthew Collin, and Christine Moussion
Keynote Speaker(s): Florent Ginhoux, Gustave Roussy
Myeloid cells include a diverse array of innate sensors, inducers, and effectors of immunity. While a great deal is known about the taxonomy of individual lineages, there is much to learn about the integration of their roles in immunity, especially in the context of pathology and immunotherapy.
This meeting will present a comprehensive and interdisciplinary exploration of myeloid cell biology, encompassing their development, differentiation, and functional roles in health and disease. The program will integrate recent advances in the ontogeny of myeloid cells, their adaptation to microenvironmental and systemic signals, and emerging strategies for therapeutic targeting.
A key feature of the meeting is its interdisciplinary scope, bringing together basic researchers, clinicians, immunologists, neuroscientists, and infection and cancer biologists. The major emphasis will be on conceptualizing myeloid cells as systemic immune orchestrators, capable of sensing and responding to disease both locally and in distant tissues. This organism-level perspective will incorporate the spatial and temporal dimensions of myeloid cell biology and disease dynamics. The meeting will explore how this integrative framework may inform novel approaches to immunotherapy across a range of conditions, including neurodegenerative diseases, chronic inflammatory disorders, infection, and cancer.
The program will be invaluable to researchers seeking new insights into tissue and systemic network interactions with the goals of better understanding human disease or exploiting discoveries in myeloid cell biology for therapeutic advancement.
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Transposable Elements: From Evolution to Engineering
March 15 - 18, 2027 @ Beaver Run Conference Center, Breckenridge, CO, USA
Important Deadlines
Early Registration Deadline: January 13, 2027
Scholarship Deadline: November 17, 2026
Short Talk Abstract Deadline: November 17, 2026
Poster Abstract Deadline: February 22, 2027
Meeting Summary
Title: Transposable Elements: From Evolution to Engineering
Date: March 15 - 18, 2027
Location: Beaver Run Conference Center, Breckenridge, CO, USA
Scientific Organizers: Irina Arkhipova, Samuel H Sternberg, Ting Wang, and Phillip D. Zamore
Keynote Speaker(s): Vera Gorbunova, University of Rochester
About half of the human genome and a significant fraction of most other genomes correspond to transposable elements (TEs). TE movements within and between genomes underlie changes in genome plasticity, regulation, and evolution. Recently, TE research was propelled by information from telomere-to-telomere genomes, metagenomes, 3D-maps of genome organization, single-cell expression profiles across tissues and development, high-resolution structures of macromolecular complexes, and massive computational predictions of protein structures and interactomes. New technologies re-invigorated TE research and yielded novel strategies for genome engineering, based on RNA-guided DNA integration and target-primed reverse transcription. Biotech companies are advancing these technologies towards the clinic, and the interest in exploiting TE potential for reshaping genomes continues to grow. Sustaining this confluence of ideas, data, and technologies requires bringing together TE biology experts and newcomers to the field, to showcase the pervasive influence of TEs on nearly every developing area of biology and to jumpstart collaborations between researchers studying every aspect of TE biology: evolutionary and population geneticists, microbiologists and virologists, ecologists and computational biologists, neuroscientists, structural and systems biologists, developmental and cell biologists, biopharmaceutical scientists, and clinicians. Plenary sessions will focus on structural and mechanistic aspects of transposition, TE evolution and genomics, genetic and epigenetic control mechanisms, TE-host interactions, disease and therapeutics, and TE applications for genome editing and engineering. Supporting early-career researchers is an essential function of the meeting, which will offer career and meet-the-editor roundtables and a methods workshop, and will serve to educate and inspire the next generation of leaders in the field.
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- Early-Career Travel Awards (ECITAs) support early-career investigators with funding to attend meetings; these also require application by the posted deadline for each conference.
- Global Health Travel Awards (GHTAs) provide financial aid for scientists, clinicians, fellows, and students from low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) to participate in select Keystone Symposia meetings, especially those focused on global health topics. These awards may cover registration, lodging, airfare, and ground transportation, and applications are submitted through the Financial Aid Portal by the listed meeting deadlines. Learn which meetings have in-person GHTAs available: https://www.keystonesymposia.org/financial-aid/global-health-awards/ghta-listing
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