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
09:30 – 09:45	Opening: welcome / introduction
09:45 – 10:25	Dietary modification of metabolic inflammation	Prof. Helen Roche, University College Dublin, Ireland
10:25 – 10.40	Selected abstract theme I/II
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	Selected abstract theme III/IV
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/training	Room 040 More information will follow
13:00 – 14:30	Parallel session: III Intestinal Immunology and IV Allergy	Room 042 More information will follow
14:30 – 15:00	Coffee / Tea
15:00 – 16:00	Poster session
16:00 – 16:15	Coffee / Tea
16:15 – 17:15	Plenary sessions	Room Blue
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