We are honoured to have the following speakers contributing to our workshop this year:

Tatiana Petrova
NCCR; Lausanne, Switzerland

"Mechanisms of lymphatic vascular development and remodeling"

Giuseppina Caligiuri
Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale (INSERM); Paris, France

"Role of CD31 in the control of inflammation and atherothrombosis"

Alessio Fasano
University of Maryland School of Medicine; Maryland, USA

"Zonulin, Intestinal Permeability, and Inflammation: Bridging the Gap Between Innate Immunity and Autoimmunity"

Tamás Freund
Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary

"Control of Cortical Inhibition and Excitation by Endocannabinoids: Novel Insights into Anxiety and Epilepsy"

Hugh Perry
University of Southhampton, School of Biological Sciences; Southhampton, UK

"The influence of systemic inflammation on the brain in health and disease"

Yosef Yarden
Weizmann Institute of Science; Rehovot, Israel

"Oncogenic receptors for growth factors: Defective cell communication offers opportunities for cancer therapy"

Yael Stern-Bach 
Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Jerusalem, Israel

"AMPA-type glutamate receptors and their accessory transmembrane proteins"

Sandra Pellegrini
Institute Pasteur; Paris, France

"Type I IFN, a large cytokine family with pleiotropic activity in complex responses"

Ruth Murrell-Lagnado
University of Cambridge; Cambridge, UK

"Mechanisms Contributing to the Diversity of Purinergic Receptor Signalling"

Mieke Dewerchin
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven; Leuven, Belgium

"Functional genomics to study angiogenesis in health and disease"

Veit Hornung
University of Bonn; Bonn, Germany

"Intracellular DNA recognition by the innate immune system"

Jessica Hamerman
Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia Mason; Seattle, USA

"Regulation of inflammatory responses by ITAM signaling in macrophages"