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5th Annual Symposium of AII
The Annual Symposium will take place in the Openbare Bibliotheek in the center of Amsterdam on Thursday, June 23rd. Rather than inviting keynote speakers from outside our institute, we have decided to turn the spotlight on ourselves. We will be asking you all for your contributions - not just scientific (abstracts), but also creative contributions (promote your lab/dept’ video). The day will be concluded dancing and dining. More information.
 
Register now!

We want you!
To strengthen the organization of the Amsterdam institute for Infection and Immunity (AII), we are looking for enthusiastic AII researchers who want to participate in one of these committees:
  • Annual meeting & seminars committee
  • PR & public outreach committee
  • Education committee
  • Research policy & seminars committee
  • Talent committee
  • Valorisation committee
  • Grant committee
Time investment: about 1 meeting of an hour per 1 or 2 months.
More information: 
info@amsterdam-infection-and-immunity.org.
Interested? Please fill in
this form.


 
Table of contents:
Highlights
Seminar serie 2022
PhD defence ceremonies
Upcoming events, courses and webinars

 
Grants
AII/CCA mentoring program
Update your research profile in our database

Highlights

Dog Rax had bone cancer, was given a cancer vaccine at the Medical Center for Animals, and seems to be all right. It is hopeful news in the development of a cancer vaccine for humans, says Arjan Griffioen, professor of Experimental Oncology at Amsterdam UMC. 
Prescribing medication did not always go smoothly during corona pandemicThe first patients to visit Amsterdam UMC's "post-covid clinic" in 2020 taught doctors and pharmacists an important lesson: in times of crisis, information about medication can easily be jeopardized. 
The Amsterdam UMC ImmunoTherapy Center (AITC) was launched to bring patients, clinicians, and scientists together to create synergy and facilitate the rapid translation of immunological research findings into treatments and diagnostic tests. 
Preparing immune system for new pandemic: 'Preventing lockdown'. 
Anje te Velde believes that right now we need to prepare our immune system for a possible next pandemic. She was interviewed by Editie NL.
 
The seven faculty winners of the UvA Thesis Prize 2022 have been announced. One of these winners is AII member Jelmer Savelkoel
Did you know that in a few seconds you could save more than one third of the energy of an average Dutch household per year? This can easily be done by joining the Freezer Challenge.

Seminar serie 2022

Andrew Oberst, 'Programmed cell death as a driver of autoimmune pathology'. Young investigator in the spotlight: Anne Martens ('Cancer cell killing via bispecific antibodies and CAR T cells is partly by necroptosis, with release of immunomodulators.'). May 10, 16.00 - 17.00 hrs, online. Host: Eric Eldering. Cancer immunology program.

Seminar with Janelle Ayres on April 19 is cancelled.

The 2022 AII seminar series program can be found here on our website. 
 

PhD defence ceremonies

Sabela Rodriguez Lorenzo, The choroid plexus in progressive multiple sclerosis, April 21, 11.45 u, VU aula.
Lisa Willemsen, Transcriptional regulation of the macrophage spectrum, April 22, 16.00 u, Agnietenkapel
Rosalie Linssen, RSV bronchiolitis in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit |Searching for a new flow, April 29, 16.00 u, Agnietenkapel.
Sally-Ann Ohene, Assessing components of the TB care cascade in Ghana, April 29, 10.00 hrs, Agnietenkapel. 
Marcella Willemsen, Vitiligo and Melanoma: The fine balance between autoimmunity and immune escape, May 13th, 14.00 u, Agnietenkapel

Upcoming events, courses and webinars

Course: Writing a Data Management Plan, April 19th, 9.00 u, online.

Postdoc Borrel, April 26th, 17.00 u, Volkshotel Amsterdam.

Erasmus Immunology Lectures: SARS-CoV-2 specific memory B cells after infection or vaccination: immunophenotype, durability and capacity to recognise variants-of concern, April 19, 11.00 u, online. 

VU Taalcentrum course, Presenting and pitching your research, April & May, different dates and hours still available. VU Amsterdam. 

Immunomet 2022, May 11th, in the auditorium of the O2 building at VUmc. Registration is now open.

VU Taalcentrum course, Scientific storytelling, (communicate the societal impact of your research), May 12th and 19th, 10.00 - 13.00 u, Online. 

Cancer immunology team meeting, May 19th, 15:00. 

Inaugural lectures of dr. M. van der Valk and dr. M.F. Schim van der Loeff, May 19th, Aula der Universiteit, Entrance Singel 411, corner Spui.

BioBusiness Summer School, 27th of June until the 1st of July 2022, Amsterdam.

5th Annual Symposium of the Amsteram institute for Infection and Immunity 'Getting it just right', June 23st, 12.30 - 22.00 u, OBA Oosterdok, Amsterdam.

VU Taalcentrum course, Writing a scientific article, intensive summer course. Different dates in May and June. Online. 

Grants

We are very pleased to announce that, now that travel becomes possible again, the following grants of Amsterdam institute for Infection and Immunity are open: 

  • AII Travel grant for PhD students to attend an international scientific conference. No deadline 

  • AII Work visit grant for PhD students and Postdocs to visit a research facility abroad. Deadline submission May 1st, 2022 

  • AII Technician grant for technicians to visit a research facility abroad. Deadline submission May 1st, 2022 

Calls to be expected in 2022 can be found here on our website.
 

AII/CCA mentoring program

AII and CCA has set up a mentoring program to couple researchers from all levels with more senior people. The ultimate goal of this program is to make sure everybody gets most out of their academic careers. If you want to participate, please fill in this form.

Social meeting of AII/CCA mentoring program around our one year anniversary, June 2nd, 16.00 - 17.00 u, Auditorium of the 02 Building.  

Update your research profile in our AII database

In order to stimulate collaboration within our institute we created a database which will make it easier for our researchers to find and connect with each other based on name, research topic, technology, disease etc. The database is only accessible for the researchers of AII. Information how to log in in the database can be found here. Please add your information to this database, so other AII researchers can find you.
Are you a member at AII and not yet registered?
Please register via 
our website or this form!
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