The conference will take place on Thursday April 16th 2026. Venue will be the Marinus Ruppert Building in Utrecht, the Netherlands.
Timetable
| Time | Activity | Additional info |
|---|---|---|
| 09:00 – 09:30 | Coffee and tea | |
| 09:30 – 12:00 | Plenary session | Room Blue Chairs: Rinke Stienstra, WUR; Linette Willemsen, UU |
| 09:30 – 09:45 | Opening: welcome / introduction | |
| 09:45 – 10:25 | Click chemistry for tracking nutrient uptake and metabolism in immune cells | Prof. Sander van Kasteren, Leiden University, The Netherlands |
| 10:25 – 10.40 | From in vitro findings and in vivo murine models to a RCT: effects of Agaricus bisporus strains on immune function | Willem Zwaan Maastricht University, Netherlands |
| 10:40 – 11:00 | Break | |
| 11:00 – 11.40 | Nutritional intervention with a flavonoid enriched diet in Multiple Sclerosis | Prof. Jerome Hendriks, University of Hasselt, Belgium |
| 11:40 – 11:55 | The dietary indole I3C and its acid condensation product DIM suppress degranulation of primary human mast cells | Joyce van de Ven Utrecht University, Netherlands |
| 11:55 – 12:00 | Closure | |
| 12:00 – 13:00 | Lunch and poster viewing | |
| 13:00 – 14:30 | Parallel session: I Inflammation and II Immune resilience/infection Intro chair Ewout Bijlsma – UMC Utrecht Milk in Motion – How time and maternal factors influence human milk antibody composition. A PRIMA birth cohort study Chantal van Everdingen – Wageningen UR The Development of Functional Readouts to Monitor Trained Immunity in Chickens Tineke de Jong – Danone RI Utrecht Fucosylated HMO containing nutrient combination induces T cell exhaustion Yunita Rakhmawati – Utrecht University Indole-3-Carbinol and Indole-3-Aldehyde selectively dampen IL-12p70 production by human monocyte-derived dendritic cells in AhR-independent manner Piotr Gierlich – EMC Rotterdam Alginate- and Chito-oligosaccharides: alternative antimicrobials to treat Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections Closure | Room 040 Chairs: Tamara Hoppenbrouwers, WUR; Olaf Perdijk, UU |
| 13:00 – 14:30 | Parallel session: III Intestinal Immunology and IV Allergy Intro Chair Eric Hiddingh – UMC Groningen Dextrins reduce TLR2 and TLR4 activity and enhance intestinal epithelial barrier in a dextrinization-dependent fashion Mojtaba Porbahaie – Wageningen UR Immune complexes of bovine IgG with house dust mite proteins bind to human monocytes via CD32, but do not induce trained immunity Chantal den Elzen – Utrecht University Polyphenols reduce activation of monocyte derived dendritic cells in type-2 polarizing conditions Laura Meulenbroek – Danone RI Utrecht Harnessing the power of high-affinity Siglec-9 ligands for allergen immunotherapy by site-specific glyco-tagging Gosia Teodorowicz – Wageningen UR Impact of food processing on pea allergenicity: Can sIgE-profile predict basophil activation? Closure | Room 042 Chairs: Suzanne Abbring, WUR; Coen Govers, WUR |
| 14:30 – 15:00 | Coffee / Tea | |
| 15:00 – 16:00 | Poster session (poster jury, 6 selected abstracts) | Poster area (hall Ruppert building) |
| 16:00 – 16:15 | Coffee / Tea | |
| 16:15 – 17:15 | Plenary sessions | Room Blue Chairs: Joost van Neerven, WUR; Linette Willemsen, UU |
| 16:15 – 17:00 | Impact of diet and microbes on early life immune development | Prof. Harald Renz, Philipps University Marburg, Germany |
| 17:00 – 17:15 | Closure | Poster and presentation awards, closure and outlook |
| 17:15 – 18:00 | Drinks and bites | Supported by the Gerrit Grijns Initiative |