Conferences
You can meet the editors of Nature Reviews Immunology (Alexandra Flemming, Yvonne Bordon, Lucy Bird and Kirsty Minton), of Nature Immunology (Jamie Wilson, Laurie Dempsey, Ioana Visan, Nick Bernard, Stephanie Houston and Paula Jauregui), of Nature (Ursula Weiss and Zoltan Fehervari) and of Nature Medicine (Saheli Sadanand) at some of the following meetings.
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APRIL 2025
9–12, Freiburg, Germany
International Symposium on Perinatal and Early Life Immunity
10–12, Belgrade, Serbia
Henry Kunkel Society Meeting: Genes & Immunity
Jamie Wilson
13–16, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA
28th Woods Hole Immunoparasitology (WHIP) Meeting
14–15, Nottingham, UK
British Society for Matrix Biology: ECM, immunity and infection
22–26, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, USA
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Meeting: Systems Immunology
Laurie Dempsey
24, London, UK (or virtual)
World Immunology Day 2025: The immune system and your brain
27–2 May, Les Houches, France
EMBO Workshop: Immunobiophysics: from fundamental physics to understanding the immune response
27–1 May, Kauai, Hawai'i
ThymUS
MAY 2025
3–7, Honolulu, Hawai'i
Annual Meeting of the American Association of Immunologists
Jamie Wilson and Ursula Weiss
5–10, Sissi, Crete, Greece
Aegean Conference: 6th International Conference on ImmunoMetabolism: Molecular and Cellular Immunology of Metabolism
5–9, Suzhou, China
Cold Spring Harbor Asia Meeting: Infection, Inflammation and Cancer
7–9, Bruges, Belgium
Immune Niches in Cancer and Inflammation
Lucy Bird and Zoltan Fehervari
10–15, Sissi, Crete, Greece
Aegean Conference: 17th International Conference on Complement Therapeutics
11–14, Whistler, British Columbia, Canada
Keystone Symposium: Single Cell Biology: Unique Cells to Tissue Ecosystems
11–16, Lucca (Barga), Italy
Gordon Research Conference: Neuroimmune Communication in Health & Disease
Yvonne Bordon and Ursula Weiss and Stephanie Houston
12–16, Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, China
Cold Spring Harbor Asia Meeting: Cell Death and Innate Immunity
Kirsty Minton
13–15, Barcelona, Spain
European Association for Cancer Research: Defence is the Best Attack: Immuno-Oncology Breakthroughs
15–16, Ghent, Belgium
5th Ghent Gut Inflammation Group Meeting
15–17, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
The 8th Venusberg Meeting on Neuroinflammation
15–20, Sissi, Crete, Greece
Aegean Conference: 20th International Conference on Innate Immunity
Laurie Dempsey
19–24, New York City, New York, USA
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Meeting: Retroviruses
20–23, Noosa, Queensland, Australia
ASI Mucosal Immunology and Microbiome Symposium
17–22, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
The American Society for Reproductive Immunology Annual Meeting
21–22, Vejle, Denmark
1st CiViA Symposium: Host Defense against Viral Infections
Paula Jauregui
20–23, Toronto, Canada
11th International γδ T Cell Conference
JUNE 2025
1–6, Waterville Valley, New Hampshire, USA
Gordon Research Conference: Phagocytes
4–7, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
Keystone Symposium: Vaccinology: Horizons Across Disease, Demography and Technology
Paula Jauregui
8–11, Whistler, British Columbia, Canada
Keystone Symposium: Neuro-Immune Interactions: A Systems-Wide Perspective on Whole Organism Physiology
8–11, Whistler, British Columbia, Canada
Keystone Symposium: Neurodegeneration: Linking Cellular Pathways to Therapeutic Strategies
8–11, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
21st Meeting of the Society for Natural Immunity (NK2025)
Jamie Wilson
10–13, Tübingen, Germany
6th Novel Concepts in Innate Immunity
11–13, Würzburg, Germany
Imaging the Immune System
18–20, Lyon, France
IRCI 2025: Immune Responses in Cancer and Infection
23–26, Hanover, Germany
Keystone Symposium: Climate Change & Infectious Disease Threats
24–27, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Federation of Clinical Immunology Societies: FOCIS 2025
25–27, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Skin Inflammation in Human Health and Disease
28–2 July, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
FASEB Conference: Signal Transduction in the Immune System
JULY 2025
27–31, Niagara Falls, New York, USA
FASEB Conference: Autoimmunity
AUGUST 2025
3–7, Niagara Falls, New York, USA
FASEB Conference: Mechanisms of Immune Cell Development and Function
10–13, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
Keystone Symposium: Long COVID and Other Post-Acute Infection Syndromes
17–22, Vienna, Austria
19th International Congress of Immunology
Alexandra Flemming and Ursula Weiss
26–29, Basel, Switzerland
EMBO Workshop: Adaptive Immunity in Barrier Tissues
SEPTEMBER 2025
7–9, New York City, New York, USA
Cell Symposium: Neuro-immune axis: Charting the periphery
7–10, Kyoto, Japan
19th Vaccine Congress
10–12, Utrecht, The Netherlands
CRI-ENCI 9th International Cancer Immunotherapy Conference: Translating Science into Survival
8–12, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, USA
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Meeting: Microbial Pathogenesis & Host Response
15–18, Shanghai, China
The Granulocyte Meeting
16–18, Edinburgh, Scotland
EMDS 2025: The 38th European Macrophage and Dendritic Cell Society Meeting
25–27, Kanazawa, Japan
84th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Cancer Association
Laurie Dempsey
29–1 October, Oxford, UK
Unravelling T cell recognition: insights from immunology and AI
OCTOBER 2025
1–2, Lausanne, Switzerland
2nd Symposium on the Immunobiology of Pattern Recognition Receptors
8–9, Burlington, Vermont, USA
2025 International Precision Vaccines Conference
Zoltan Fehervari
8–9, Tokyo, Japan
RIKEN-International Society of Microbiota First Conjoint Meeting: Targeting Microbiota
9–10, Leuven, Belgium
New Horizons in Neurodegeneration
12–17, Chania, Crete, Greece
Aegean Conference: 4th International Conference on Oral Mucosal Immunity and Microbiome
13–17, Suzhou, China
Cold Spring Harbor Asia Meeting: Mitochondria and Metabolism in Health and Disease
15–18, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Latin American Society for Immunodeficiencies Meeting
19–23, Malahide, Ireland
FASEB Conference: HIV Reservoirs and Immune Control
19–23, Melbourne, Florida, USA
FASEB Conference: Immune Repertoire Decoding
27–31, Suzhou, China
Cold Spring Harbor Asia Meeting: Microbiome and Barrier Immunity
28–31, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, USA
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Meeting: Immune Engineering & Cellular Immunotherapy
NOVEMBER 2025
2–4, Sitges, Spain
Cell Symposium: The Cancer-Immunity Cycle
Nick Bernard
2–5, Seattle, Washington, USA
Cytokines 2025
11–13, Tokyo, Japan
Princess Takamatsu Cancer Research Fund International Symposium
Zoltan Fehervari
DECEMBER 2025
1–4, Liverpool, UK
British Society for Immunology Congress
Jamie Wilson
3–5, Hyderabad, India
EMBO Lecture Course: Cell Autonomous Defence and Innate Immunity
8–11, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, USA
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Meeting: Assembloids
JANUARY 2026
4–9, Ventura, California, USA
Gordon Research Conference: Food Allergy
11–14, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Keystone Symposium: From Systems Immunology to Immunoengineering
11–14, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Keystone Symposium: Immunometabolism Across Scales: From Cells to Systems to Healthspan
12–15, Breckenridge, Colorado, USA
Keystone Symposium: Fungal Pathogens: Emerging Threats and Future Challenges
19–22, Keystone, Colorado, USA
Keystone Symposium: Autoimmunity & Autoinflammation: Translating Basic Mechanisms into Novel Therapeutic Approaches
24–27, Asilomar, California, USA
Midwinter Conference of Immunologists
FEBRUARY 2026
1–4, Banff, Alberta, Canada
Keystone Symposium: Antibodies as Drugs: Engineering and Computational Tools Enabling Clinical Advances
1–4, Banff, Alberta, Canada
Keystone Symposium: Emerging Cell Therapies
2–5, Banff, Alberta, Canada
Keystone Symposium: Stromal Immunology in Health and Disease
2–5, Banff, Alberta, Canada
Keystone Symposium: Fibrosis: Cross Organ Pathology and Pathways to Clinical Development
8–13, Galveston, Texas, USA
Gordon Research Conference: MHC-Restricted Antigen Processing and Presentation
22–27, Pomona, California, USA
Gordon Research Conference: Biology of Acute Respiratory Infection
22–27, Ventura, California, USA
Gordon Research Conference: Immunoengineering
23–26, Keystone, Colorado, USA
Keystone Symposium: Hematopoiesis
23–26, Keystone, Colorado, USA
Keystone Symposium: Myeloid Cells: Functional Heterogeneity with Therapeutic Promise
MARCH 2026
3–7, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, USA
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Meeting: Gene Expression & Signaling in the Immune System
15–18, Quebec, Canada
Keystone Symposium: Cancer Immunotherapy: Basic Mechanisms Informing Clinical Applications & Combinations
16–19, Keystone, Colorado, USA
Keystone Symposium: B Cells and Plasma Cells: Fundamental and Translational Biology
16–19, Keystone, Colorado, USA
Keystone Symposium: B and T Cell Collaboration in Lymphoid and Nonlymphoid Microenvironments
16–19, Breckenridge, Colorado, USA
Keystone Symposium: Gut-Brain Axis
22–25, Banff, Alberta, Canada
Keystone Symposium: Innate Immunity: Diversity in Host Defense and Disease
22–25, Banff, Alberta, Canada
Keystone Symposium: Aging: Immune Function and Organ Health
APRIL 2026
16–19, Breckenridge, Colorado, USA
Keystone Symposium: Decoding HIV Persistence: Strategies for Curing HIV Infection
16–19, Breckenridge, Colorado, USA
Keystone Symposium: HIV Vaccines: Intersections of Basic and Clinical Science
MAY 2026
17–20, Whistler, British Columbia, Canada
Keystone Symposium: Inflammation Resolution: Emerging Concepts, Mechanisms and Disease Insights
26–29, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
Immuno-Memphis in May. Harmonizing Immunotherapy: Tuning T cells to give cancer the blues
JUNE 2026
15–18, Hannover, Germany
Keystone Symposium: Viral Pathogenesis and Immunity: From Molecular Discoveries to Therapeutics
NOVEMBER 2026
3–6, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Oral Gut 3 Conference