Vaccinology: A New Era in Immune-Driven Vaccine Design

May 04–07, 2026 | INEC Killarney Convention Centre, Killarney, KY, Ireland
Scientific Organizers: Galit Alter, Dan H. Barouch, Lynda M. Stuart, and Christopher Chiu

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May 04–07, 2026 | INEC Killarney Convention Centre, Killarney, KY, Ireland

Scientific Organizers: Galit Alter, Dan H. Barouch, Lynda M. Stuart, and Christopher Chiu

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***Meeting program subject to change.

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Monday, May 4, 2026
Registration  
4:00–8:00 PM
 INEC Foyer
Welcome Mixer Sponsored by AstraZeneca  
6:00–8:00 PM
 INEC Foyer
Tuesday, May 5, 2026
Breakfast  
7:00–8:00 AM
 Individual Hotel
Poster Setup  
7:30–8:00 AM
 INEC Foyer
Poster Viewing  
7:45–5:00 PM
 INEC Foyer
Welcome Remarks      
8:00–8:10 AM
 INEC Main Auditorium
Keynote Address (Sponsored by Eli Lilly)      
8:10–9:00 AM
 INEC Main Auditorium
* Karin Bok, Eli Lilly
Chair Introduction
Bali Pulendran, Stanford University School of Medicine
Next Generation Immune Inspired Vaccine Design
How Can We Overcome Waning and Imprinted Immunity?      
9:00–11:15 AM
 INEC Main Auditorium
* Karin Bok, Eli Lilly
Session Chair
Robert A. Seder, NIAID, National Institutes of Health
Anamnestic Immunity - The Key to Durability
Adolfo García-Sastre, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Breaking the Imprint
Dan H. Barouch, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Vaccine Immunity to Respiratory Pathogens
Yael Weiss-Ottolenghi, Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, Israel
Short Talk: Profiling the Serological Dynamics Following Seasonal Respiratory Viral Infections in Healthcare Workers
Coffee Break  
9:30–9:50 AM
 INEC Foyer
Lunch  
11:15–12:15 PM
 INEC Foyer
Poster Session 1  
12:00–2:30 PM
 INEC Foyer
Panel 1: Is a One Size Fits All Vaccine Possible for All Populations      
3:00–4:30 PM
 INEC Main Auditorium
* Christopher Chiu, Imperial College London
Dan H. Barouch, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Daniela M Ferreira, University of Oxford
Yves Levy, INSERM
Arnaud Marchant, Université libre de Bruxelles
Coffee Available  
4:30–5:00 PM
 INEC Foyer
Dissecting and Harnessing the GC Response?      
5:00–7:00 PM
 INEC Main Auditorium
* Anthony L Cunningham, The Westmead Institute for Medical Research
Session Chair
Gabriel D Victora, Rockefeller University/HHMI
Refueling germinal center reactions by boosting
Michela Locci, University of Pennsylvania
Dissecting the GC Response
Carola G Vinuesa, Francis Crick Institute
Driving Productive Extra and Intra Follicular B Cell Immunity
Casey Beppler, Stanford University
Short Talk: Aging Restricts Maturation of CXCL13⁺ Tfh Cells in Human Immunity
Madison L Seefeld, University of Minnesota
Short Talk: Albumin Hitchhiking Vaccines for Mucosal Immune Protection in the Genitourinary Tract
On Own for Dinner  
7:00–8:00 PM
Wednesday, May 6, 2026
Breakfast  
7:00–8:00 AM
 Individual Hotel
How Can We Use Correlates and AI to Accelerate Vaccine Development?      
8:00–11:30 AM
 INEC Main Auditorium
* Saranya Sridhar, Sanofi
Session Chair
John Tsang, Yale University School of Medicine
AI & Systems Immunology for Vaccine Development
Lisa Wagar, University of California, Irvine
Modeling Vaccine Induced Immunity to Drive Vaccine Design
Francis Impens, Ghent University
Immunopeptidomics for Next-generation Bacterial Vaccine Development
Arnaud Didierlaurent, University of Geneva
Correlates of Reactogenicity and Immunogenicity to mRNA Vaccines
Jishnu Das, University of Pittsburgh
Short Talk: A Systems Approach to Discover Viral Evolutionary Constraints Essential For Hijacking Host Cellular Machinery To Design Broadly Neutralizing Immunotherapies
Marjolein Stip, RIVM (Dutch Institute for Public Health and Environment)
Short Talk: The Contribution of Pre-existing, Broadly Reactive T cells in Heterosubtypic Protection against A(H1N1)pdm09 Infection in Children
Bryant S Colin, University of Chicago
Short Talk: Scalable Transcriptional Profiling of CD4+ T Cell States for Vaccine and Adjuvant Discovery
Gitte Erbs, Statens Serum Institut
Short Talk: Searching for Immunological Correlates of Protection in the Helicobacter Pylori Mouse Challenge Model
Coffee Break  
9:00–9:20 AM
 INEC Foyer
Award Recipient Acknowledgement      
9:20–9:25 AM
 INEC Main Auditorium
Poster Setup  
11:30–1:00 PM
 INEC Foyer
On Own for Lunch  
11:30–5:00 PM
Poster Viewing  
1:00–10:00 PM
 INEC Foyer
Career Roundtable  
2:30–3:30 PM
 INEC Foyer
Julia Lederhofer, Contractor at DMID/NIAID/NIH
Program Lead
Zoltan Fehervari, Nature Publishing Group
Senior Editor
Karin Bok, Eli Lilly
Associate Vice President, Chief Scientific Officer Infectious Disease
David Beauparlant, Novartis
Principal Scientist
Panel on Structure-Based Vaccine Design      
3:30–4:30 PM
 INEC Main Auditorium
* Chaim A Schramm, NIAID, National Institutes of Health
Session Chair
Anna-Sophia Boguraev, Harvard University
Short Talk: Computationally Designed Scaffolds Present Complex Flavivirus Epitopes
Dieter Sebastian Hoffmann, Leipzig University
Short Talk: Germline-targeting Hepatitis C Virus Immunogens with broad affinity for precursors of AR3C-Class Broadly Neutralizing Antibodies
Danton Ivanochko, The Hospital for Sick Children
Short Talk: A Stabilized Tandem Antigen Chimera that Elicits Potent Malaria Transmission-Reducing Activity
Masaru Kanekiyo, NIAID, NIH
Short Talk: Passive and Active Immunity to Influenza Hemagglutinin Stem Mediate Protection from H5N1 Challenge in Macaques
Coffee Available  
4:30–5:00 PM
 INEC Foyer
How Can We Exploit New Platforms to Accelerate Vaccine Development and Global Equity?      
5:00–6:45 PM
 INEC Main Auditorium
* Dan H. Barouch, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Session Chair
Tongqing Zhou, NIAID, National Institutes of Health
Vaccine Elicitation of Broad HIV-1 Neutralizing Antibodies Targeting the CD4-Binding Site in Nonhuman Primates
Annaliesa S Anderson, Pfizer, Inc
Purpose, Progress, and Patience: Advancing C. difficile Vaccine Science for Patients
Anna Rydlova, Imperial College London
Short Talk: Interrogating Humoral Immune Features Beyond O-Antigen–Specific IgG in a Human Non-Typhoidal Salmonella Challenge Model
Courtney R. Plumlee, Seattle Children's Research Institute
Short Talk: Prevention of Infection in an Ultra-low Dose Tuberculosis Murine Model is a Novel Metric of Vaccine-Mediated Immunity
Luka Cicin-Sain, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research
Short Talk: Xenotropic Latency of a Non-replicating Herpesviral Vaccine Vector Elicits Lasting Adaptive Immunity
Social Hour with Dinner (Hosted Bar Sponsored by Michelson Philanthropies)  
7:00–8:00 PM
 INEC Foyer
Poster Session 2  
7:30–10:00 PM
 INEC Foyer
Thursday, May 7, 2026
Breakfast  
7:00–8:00 AM
 Individual Hotel
Do We Need Tissue Resident Immunity to Achieve Mucosal Protection?      
8:00–11:00 AM
 INEC Main Auditorium
* Lisa Wagar, University of California, Irvine
Session Chair
Adrian V Hill, Jenner Institute, University of Oxford
Malaria: From Efficacy to Elimination
Galit Alter, AstraZeneca
Advancing Platform Level Correlates of Immunity
Christopher Chiu, Imperial College London
The Power of the Human Challenge Model
Daniela M Ferreira, University of Oxford
Dissecting Mucosal Correlates to Bacterial Pathogens
Donna L Farber, Columbia University Medical Center
Tissue Reservoirs for Protective Immunity in Humans
Dong-il Kwon, Yale University School of Medicine
Short Talk: Clonal Expansion and Trafficking of Memory B Cells Underpin Bone Marrow and Lung IgA+ Plasma Cells following Unadjuvanted Nasal Booster Administration
Coffee Break  
8:55–9:15 AM
 INEC Foyer
Persistent/Latent Viral Infection Panel from the Global Virus Network      
11:00–12:15 PM
 INEC Main Auditorium
* Adolfo García-Sastre, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Ryoma Nakao, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Japan Institute for Health Security
Elizabeth Thompson, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health
Jishnu Das, University of Pittsburgh
Marcela Henao-Tamayo, Colorado State University
Herbert 'Skip' W Virgin, Gates Foundation
Poster Setup  
12:15–1:00 PM
 INEC Foyer
On Own for Lunch  
12:15–5:00 PM
Poster Viewing  
1:00–10:00 PM
 INEC Foyer
Panel 2: Vaccine Equity and Global Health      
3:00–4:30 PM
 INEC Main Auditorium
* Galit Alter, AstraZeneca
John Tsang, Yale University School of Medicine
Cécile A. C. M. van Els, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment
Gili Regev-Yochay, Sheba Medical Center
Adam F. Cunningham, University of Birmingham
Coffee Available  
4:30–5:00 PM
 INEC Foyer
How Does Immunology Inform Next Generation Therapeutic Vaccine Design?      
5:00–6:45 PM
 INEC Main Auditorium
* Galit Alter, AstraZeneca
Session Chair
Ari Waisman, University of Mainz Medical School
Tolerizing Vaccines to Fight Autoimmunity
Michal Bassani-Sternberg, University Hospital of Lausanne, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research
Inspiring Cancer Vaccine Design with Immunopeptidomics
Katherine Kedzierska, University of Melbourne
Towards Next Generation Influenza Vaccines: Future Boosting, Vaccine Non-responders and Impact of Co-morbidities
Audrey K Thomas, Vanderbilt University
Short Talk: Mucosal Vaccination Clears Clostridioides Difficile Colonization
Meeting Wrap-Up: Outcomes and Future Directions (Organizers)      
6:45–7:00 PM
 INEC Main Auditorium
Social Hour with Dinner (Dinner Sponsored by Michelson Philanthropies)  
7:00–8:00 PM
 INEC Foyer
Michelson Philanthropies Award Ceremony  
7:15–8:00 PM
 INEC Foyer
Poster Session 3  
7:30–10:00 PM
 INEC Foyer
Friday, May 8, 2026
Departure  
12:00–11:59 PM

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