Wednesday, 18th February 16th Lorne Infection and Immunity 2026

14:00 - Welcome by Program Co-Chairs 

View all submitted posters with cheese and drinks. 
This is included in the registration price. 

• Hyperglycaemia fuels life-threatening fungal infection in type 2 diabetes - Helen Stölting
• Developing an mRNA-delivery platform for precision targeting of pulmonary macrophages in lung pathology - Jan Schaefer
• Protective Antibody Responses Against Placental Malaria: From Cohort Studies to Monoclonal Antibody Characterization - Elizabeth Aitken
• Neurotropic viral infection shapes immune responses towards influenza viruses in lungs and brain - Isabelle Foo
• Historic 1994 influenza vaccine cohorts defines breadth of antibody and B cell responses towards three decades of future influenza A and B viruses - Oanh Nguyen
• Combating Schistosomiasis japonica through transmission blocking vaccines - Chika P Zumuk
• iPSC-Derived HSC Humanized Mice: A Renewable Platform for Modeling Human Immunity - Kothila Tharmarajah
• Evaluating the use of non-human primates as immunological models for vaccination - Veronica P Zoest
• Transcriptomic signatures of resilience and susceptibility in lumpy skin disease virus (LSDV) infection - Shahana Ahmed
• Development of antisense therapeutics for psoriasis - Sulev Koks
• IL-33–ILC2 axis drives severe urinary tract infection and kidney dysfunction - Malcolm R Starkey
• Investigation of microbe associated antibody cross-reactivity in SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid immune response - Joshuah Fialho
• T cell epitope validation and potential autoantigen targets in Ovarian cancer - Namita Yadav
• Defining Plasmodium vivax malaria surface proteins as targets of multiple protective functional antibody responses - Kaitlin Pekin
• iNKT Cells Develop Through A 4-Stage Pathway in the Human Thymus   - Naeimeh Tavakolinia
• Prevalence and risk factors for influenza A virus infections and carriage in individuals residing in high-risk human-animal interfaces in Bangladesh - Josefina Abedin
• Overcoming antibiotic resistant bacterial infection by ramping up innate immune-mediated antibacterial zinc toxicity - Emma K Dalton
• AlphaFold3-enabled discovery of unique antibody characteristics in a hepatitis C super-clearer - Ahmed Abdul Quadeer
• Bioluminescence-based in vitro assay for antimicrobial drug screening - Amy AL Lalruatdiki
• Effects of exercise training on airway inflammation with and without rhinovirus infection - Arwel W Jones
• Looped or exposed? Structural strategies for multi-antigen display in malaria virus-like particles - Anne Nguyen
• Balancing Welfare and Science: The Effect of Analgesia on ASFV Disease Progression and Immune Response - Samantha K Davis
• Plasma protein biomarker discovery for high-impact communicable diseases: a case study of active tuberculosis - Renu Balyan
• Antibiotic driven dysfunction of T follicular helper cells leads to impaired humoral responses to Cryptosporidium infection - Dana M Van Fossen
• Multi-Omic Mapping of Human Shigellosis Uncovers Interconnected Networks of Inflammation, Repair, and Mucosal Remodeling - Chelsea Marie Braun
• Experimental Streptococcus pyogenes pharyngitis expands memory B and CD4+ T cells in humans - Sabrina M. Bush
• A viral immunoevasion impacts natural killer cells by targeting killer cell immunoglobulin-like (KIR) receptors - Bagher Golzarroshan
• The Effects of N⁶‑methyladenosine on the Proteome of the Malaria Parasite Plasmodium falciparum - Lakvin Fernando
• Cellular insights into how Kelch 13 mutations impact feeding and growth in artemisinin-resistant malaria parasites - Long K Huynh
• Genome based human informed development of a T cell based vaccine against malaria - Anouschka Akerman
• Atypical B cells, immune hyperactivation and hyperinflammation underlie immunity to influenza vaccination in First Nations and non-Indigenous people with chronic multimorbidity - Louise C Rowntree
• Penetrating the barrier: stroke rapidly disrupts urothelial integrity within hours - Ashleigh Paschek
• Impact of Kelch13 mutations in Plasmodium falciparum gametocyte development and tranmission - Haowen Deng
• Human genetic factors and serine proteases regulate coronavirus infection, insights new drug discovery - Naveen Vankadari
• Differential gene expression of checkpoint markers and cancer markers in mouse models of spontaneous chronic colitis - Ramya Ephraim
• Impaired CSF1R signalling compromises tissue integrity and repair in acute and chronic infection - Eline Jessen
• Cell-specific immune responses to Zika brain infection revealed by single cell analysis of human brain organoids  - Andrii Slonchak
• Defining immune signature predictive of Multiple Sclerosis onset through integrated Epstein-Barr virus and human autoantibody profiling - Denise L Doolan
• Pregnancy impacts epitope-specific CD8+ T cells directed towards acute and chronic viruses - Jennifer Habel
• GPR84 antagonism reduces influenza and SARS-CoV2 infection severity - Katharina Ronacher
• MERS-CoV-Specific Signatures and SARS-CoV-2 Cross-Reactive Antibody Effector Functions - Sophie Valkenburg
• Evaluating the prevalence of anti-interferon autoantibodies in post-acute infection syndromes  - Maddison Cali
• Decoding the epitranscriptomic code in Plasmodium falciparum - Steve Lancashire
• Exploration of equine saliva proteins as a source of immune biomarkers that may reflect the mucosal response to a gastrointestinal worm infection - Tanya King
• Sub-dominant principal components inform new vaccine targets for HIV Gag - Syed Faraz Ahmed
• Interferons drive unexpected cell signalling in dendritic cells - Meredith O'Keeffe
• I want to break free: A metabolic cross-talk between immune cells and fungal pathogens determines their fate upon interaction   - Harshini Weerasinghe
• Peptidoglycan associated with Helicobacter pylori extracellular vesicles modulates immune responses in human mononuclear cells - Angus R Cramond
• Cross-Protective Immunity Following SARS-CoV-2 Infection and Vaccination: Implications for Future Coronavirus Outbreaks - Megan Steain
• Helicobacter pylori induces the secretion of extracellular vesicles from gastric epithelial cells with anti-inflammatory properties - Isabella Stuart
• Bias for inducing IFN-γ vs IL-10 from T cells by specific peptides from SARS-CoV-2: optimising detection and biological implications - Kirsty Wilson
• Peripheral blood kynurenine/tryptophan ratio in patients with Tuberculosis and their recently exposed contacts: a nested case-control study.  - Melinda Suchard
• Taking Bacterial Autotransporters from Pathogenic to Therapeutic - Kait Clarke
• Pan-anti-viral drug development - Vasso Apostolopoulos
• Title of my presentation for the conference is "Polydopamine based advanced drug delivery systems". - TAYYBA tayyba TARIQ
• Structural and Functional Specialisation of Bordetella pertussis DsbA for Pertussis Toxin Folding - Stephanie Penning

Welcome Function at the Lorne Common. 
This is included in the registration price. 

Please make your own way to Stribling Reserve.