The meeting will explore all fields of immunology, with emphasis on human immunology, translational and clinical immunology, and immune intervention.

The scientific activities are developed in six parallel tracks running daily, focusing on:

•Innate immunity

•Immune receptors and signaling

•Adaptive immunity

•Host-pathogen interactions

•Immune-mediated disease pathogenesis

•Translational immunology and and immune intervention

The meeting offers each day:

•2 plenary lectures

•2 Perspective in immunology lectures

•6 parallel symposia (one for each track)

•7 parallel lunchtime lectures

•2 workshop sessions (each with 12 parallel workshops)

•1 poster session

•tutorials

In addition to the lectures during the opening ceremony, in 5 days of congress activity a total of about 500 invited participants will deliver a program including:

•10 perspective in immunology lectures

•35 lunchtime lectures (45 min each)

•30 symposia (125 min each with 5 invited speakers)

•1 late breaking session

•oral presentations selected from abstracts in over 100 focused workshops (90 min each with 6 speakers selected from abstracts)

•5 poster sessions (90 min each)

•Industry-sponsored tutorials (60 min each)