BIC - the Bern Immunology Club

BIC Lectures 2024

BIC Meetings are held on Wednesdays from 17.00-18.00 followed by a small apéro and open end discussion.

Please note, that the BIC meetings will take place at the Institute of Pathology (Mikroskopie-Hörsaal, Eingang 43A, Murtenstrasse 31).

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 Date Topic  Lecturer   Organizer
Jan 31 Title: “Diving deep into the human lung”: from microbiome to interactions with the innate immune system Dr. Sudip Das
Lung Precision Medicine Program
Department of Biomedical Research DBMR
Bern
Thomas Geiser
Feb 28 Title: Systems Analyses of anti-Tumor T cell responses Dr. Roger Geiger
Institute for Research in Biomedicine
Bellinzona
Martin Bachmann
March 27 Title: “Regulation of the tuft cell – ILC2 circuit in the small intestine” Prof. Dr. Christoph Schneider
Institute of Physiology
University of Zurich
Zürich
Luca Borradori
April 24 Title: “Decoding the metabolic reprogramming of Lymph node Fibroblastic Reticular Cells” Dr. Lalit Kumar Dubey
The London School of Medicine & Dentistry
Queen Mary University of London, London
Philippe Krebs
Mai 29 Title: “Sex hormones determine the efficacy of cancer immunotherapy in obese males” Prof. Dr. Carole Bourquin
Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences of Western Switzerland
University of Geneva
Adrian Ochsenbein
June 26 Title: “Inborn errors of immunity: novel contributions to a rapidly evolving field” Prof. Dr. Mike Recher
Department of Biomedicine
University of Basel
Andrew Macpherson
July/ August Summer break  
Sept 25 Lecture & annual BBQ
Title: Gut microbiota-immune crosstalk in neuroinflammation
Prof. Dr. med. Anne-Katrin Pröbstel
Department of Clinical Research
University Hospital Basel
Britta Engelhardt
Philippe Krebs
Oct 30 Title: “The Immunotoxicity of tattoo ink” Prof. Dr. Santiago F. Gonzalez
Institute for Research in Biomedicine IRB
Bellinzona
Artur Summerfield
Nov 27  Highlights of the year


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