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Advancements in pathogen immunity and signaling

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The EMBO workshop ‘Pathogen Immunity and Signaling’, held in San Servolo, Italy, from 8 to 12 April 2024, aimed to discuss cutting-edge advances in the understanding of antimicrobial defense mechanisms.

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Fig. 1: Participants of EMBO ‘Pathogen Immunity and Signaling’ workshop.

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Acknowledgements

We thank E. Del Boca and staff members from Achelois for coordinating this conference, and thank EMBO, GSK, JPT, Journal of Experimental Medicine, InvivoGen, Cytek, Disease Models & Mechanisms and PHSE for sponsoring the conference. We also thank the invited speakers and participants for sharing their valuable knowledge and perspectives on infection and immunity. In addition, we express our gratitude to the invited speakers who allowed us to incorporate their research into this meeting report, and apologize to presenters whose work could not be discussed due to space constraints.

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  1. Department of Immunology and Microbiology, LEO Foundation Skin Immunology Research Center, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

    Mads Gyrd-Hansen

  2. Department of Biology and Biotechnology, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy

    Anna Kajaste-Rudnitski

  3. San Raffaele Telethon Institute for Gene Therapy (SR-TIGET), Milan, Italy

    Anna Kajaste-Rudnitski

  4. Institut Curie, PSL University, INSERM U932, Immunity and Cancer, Paris, France

    Nicolas Manel

  5. Medical Research Council Translational Immune Discovery Unit, Medical Research Council Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

    Jan Rehwinkel

  6. Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, the Netherlands

    Annemarthe G. van der Veen

  7. IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy

    Matteo Iannacone

  8. Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan, Italy

    Matteo Iannacone

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M.I. participates in advisory boards/consultantship for Asher Biotherapeutics, GentiBio, BlueJay Therapeutics and Aligos Therapeutics and receives funding from Gilead Sciences and VIR Biotechnology. All other authors have no competing interests.

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Gyrd-Hansen, M., Kajaste-Rudnitski, A., Manel, N. et al. Advancements in pathogen immunity and signaling. Nat Immunol 25, 1322–1325 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41590-024-01905-x

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