Keynote Speakers

Ed Roberts completed his PhD with Doug Fearon studying the role of FAPa expressing fibroblasts in regulating anti-cancer immunity. He then was a CRI Irvington postdoctoral research fellow at UCSF with Max Krummel studying how cDC1 initiate anti-tumour CD8 T cell responses. In 2019 he established his group at the CRUK Scotland Institute studying how antigen presentation is regulated in both the tumour microenvironment and the lymph node and how this determines the quality of the anti-tumour T cell response.

Look forward to his insights on immunological memory and tumour development.

Bernd Pulverer is the Chief Editor of EMBO Reports and the Head of Scientific Publishing of EMBO Press. He started his scientific carreer at Cambridge University and earned his PhD in 1992 in London working on signal transduction and transcription. After doing Postdoctoral research in Toronto, Seattle & Innsbruck on transcription and proteolysis, he joined Nature as Senior Editor in 1999. From 2002-2009 he was the Chief Editor at Nature Cell Biology. Since 2009 he is the Head of EMBO Press and was appointed Chief Editor of EMBO Reports in 2021. Additionally, he is part of different commitees for DORA, Review Commons, STM Image Integrity, CoARA and the Biocenter Vienna.

He will talk about transparent publishing and open science, touching on topics like reproducibility and integrity as well as AI usage in writing.