Carolina Barillas-Mury (National Institute of Health, USA)
Mosquito hemocytes, prostaglandins and malaria transmission
Nicole Broderick (University of Connecticut, USA)
Deciphering host-microbiome-pathogen interactions using Drosophila melanogaster
Nicolas Buchon (Cornell University, USA)
Surviving infection: the damage you can give, the damage you can take
George Christophides (Imperial College London, United Kingdom)
Mosquito gene drive for malaria transmission blocking
Michèle Crozatier (Université Toulouse III, France)
Hematopoiesis and immune response in Drosophila
Gabriela de Oliveira Paiva e Silva (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
No gut, no glory: mosquito midgut regeneration as a component of vectorial competence
George Dimopoulos (Johns Hopkins University, USA)
Exploiting the mosquito's immune system to control human diseases
Marc Dionne (Imperial College London, United Kingdom)
Paying the metabolic price of immunity in Drosophila
Dominique Ferrandon (Université de Strasbourg, France)
The yin and the yang of host defense: resilience to infections and to environmental stresses as exemplified in the gut of Drosophila melanogaster
Elke Genersch (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany)
A question of strategy: How Paenibacillus larvae bacteria evade the honeybee larval immune response
Angela Giangrande (IGBMC Strasbourg, France)
Breaking news on the hematopoietic waves: cell communication and homeostasis in physiology and pathology
Jean-Luc Imler (Université de Strasbourg, France)
Insects as a source of innovative antiviral strategies
Frank Jiggins (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom)
The evolution of Drosophila immunity
Alain Kohl (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom)
Mosquito antiviral RNAi effector proteins – activity and regulation
Louis Lambrechts (Institut Pasteur Paris, France)
Dissecting the genetic basis of natural variation in mosquito susceptibility to arbovirus infection
Brian Lazzaro (Cornell University, USA)
Host-pathogen interplay determines the outcome of bacterial infection in Drosophila
Bruno Lemaitre (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland)
Systematic functional analysis of Drosophila antimicrobial response using CRISPR/CAS9 mutants
Elena Levashina (Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Germany)
Mosquito immune responses to malaria parasites
Joao Marques (Université de Strasbourg, France)
Functional specialization of antiviral RNA Interference in Aedes aegypti mosquitoes
Carine Meignin (Université de Strasbourg, France)
Sensing viral RNA by the nucleic acid sensor Dicer-2 in Drosophila melanogaster
Scott O’Neill (Monash University, Australia)
Using Wolbachia endosymbionts to block transmission of viruses by Aedes aegypti
Marylène Poirié (Université Côte d'Azur, France)
Evolution and mechanisms of immune interactions between insect hosts and parasitoid wasps
Julien Royet (Aix-Marseille Université, France)
Modulation of Drosophila innate behaviours by commensal and infectious bacteria
Carla Saleh (Institut Pasteur Paris, France)
Immune priming and clearance of orally acquired RNA viruses in Drosophila
Neal Silverman (University of Massachusetts Medical School, USA)
Adventures in the Imd pathway
Luis Teixeira (Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal)
Drosophila bacterial symbionts
Uli Theopold (Stockholm University, Sweden)
Wounds come in different shapes: nematodes and tumors
Ronald van Rij (Radboud University Medical Center, The Netherlands)
Small RNA-based antiviral immunity in insects
Will Wood (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
Detecting death and damage in Drosophila
Anna Zaidman-Remy (Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon, France)
Fighting infection while maintaining symbiosis homeostasis: the immune split personality of the cereal weevil Sitopilus sp.
