January 1-4, 2026 | Location to be Determined
Scientific Organizers:
Kim Good-Jacobson, Deepta Bhattacharya and Taras Kreslavsky
January 1-4, 2026 | Location to be Determined
Scientific Organizers:
Kim Good-Jacobson, Deepta Bhattacharya and Taras Kreslavsky
Important Deadlines
Meeting Summary
Significance: B cells are critical to forming long-lived immunity, with plasma cells and memory B cells providing protection against reinfection. Yet, while so fundamental to human health and longevity, dysfunction of B cells during chronic infectious disease, autoimmunity and lymphomas can drive immunopathogenesis and disease. This conference will explore recent advances in understanding core determinants of the longevity and effectiveness of humoral responses. It will detail how these advances lay the foundation for understanding how to specifically target B cells for therapeutic intervention and utilize antibodies for diagnostics and immunotherapies. Understanding these mechanisms has become even more timely, given the focus on our ability to respond to newly emerging pathogens and their variants, the expanding portfolio of new vaccine platforms, and determining how to therapeutically engineer the B cell response. Thus, with this information the field can drive research into enhancing and prolonging vaccine-mediated protection, better understand disease pathogenesis, and identify new therapeutic targets for translational development. Innovation -Our meeting brings together global experts in the biology of B cells, plasma cells, and how to utilize and/or target antibody in disease. It is unique in its clear focus on the fundamental and translational biology of plasma cells and memory B cells. -We have designed the program to encompass ‘the instruction manual’ of building effective B cell responses, incorporating interdisciplinary talks on B cell repertoires in vaccine design, molecular mechanisms of promoting humoral memory longevity, understanding how ineffective and/or immunopathogenic antibody is produced, and new therapeutic strategies to ameliorate disease.
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