The annual IPBS student symposium is organized by 3rd year PhD students who invite internationally renowned speakers of their choice; this symposium serves as a platform for 2nd and 3rd year students to present their work in the form of oral presentations (3rd year) and posters and flash talks (2nd year).
Past events (list of keynote speakers)
2022
Prof. Carol A. Munro Institute of Medical Sciences University of Aberdeen, UK
Targeting the fungal cell wall
Dr. Nicolas Thomä Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland
Haven’t got a glue: targeting oncogenic transcription factors in cancer
Dr. María Casanova-Acebes Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncologicas Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
Understanding myeloid cell functional heterogeneity in solid tumors
2021
Dr. Nathalie Balaban The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Bacteria under stress: cause and consequence of a disrupted celular state
Dr. Arturo Zychlinsky Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Berlin, Germany
Neutrophil Extracellular Traps: the immune function of chromatin
2020
Dr. Gordon Brown Director - MRC Centre for Medical Mycology University of Exeter, UK
C-type lectins in immunity
Dr. Jérome Galon Integrative Cancer Immunology Cordeliers Research Center, Paris
Tumor immunology in the era of immunotherapies
2019
Dr. Marc Bajenoff CIML, Marseille, France
Stromal cells are essential components of the macrophage niche
Dr. Morgan Beeby Imperial College, London, UK
Evolution of bacterial flagellar motors studied by electron cryo-tomography
2018
Dr. Matthew R. Hepworth The University of Manchester, UK
Innate lymphoid cells – critical regulators of mucosal barrier immune responses in health and disease
Dr. Ketan J. Patel MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK
Metabolic origins of endogenous DNA damage in stem cells
2017
Dr. Aurélien Trompette University Hospital of Lausanne, Switzerland
Dietary fibers confer protection against Influenza by shaping patrolling monocyte hematopoiesis and CD8 T cell metabolism
Dr. Timm Maier Biozentrum, University of Basel, Switzerland