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At the third of the three-part EMBO Conference series “Signaling in the immune system,” immunologists presented their most recent findings in this rapidly moving field and discussed new questions and emerging trends.
The worlds of innate and adaptive immunity collided pleasantly and productively as investigators from each field met in Mykonos for the 4th Aegean Conference on the Crossroads Between Innate and Adaptive Immunity.
This report describes advances in the understanding of how microbes elicit and evade immune responses and the sensing of pathogens by host cells that leads to the activation and production of intra- and extracellular signaling molecules.
For 50 years, immunologists have been meeting each winter in California to discuss new findings and theories in immunology. A recurring theme this year was the continuous conversation between the innate and adaptive arms of the immune system. To mark the 50th anniversary of this meeting, some of the speakers took a look back half a century to see how far immunologists have come.
