Speaker: Dr Jonathan Savitz

Talk Title: “Response to Inflammatory Challenge in Major Depressive Disorder”

Speakers: Dr Aiste Lengvenyte & Becky Milton

Talk titles:

1. "In search of peripheral signatures of suicidal behaviours” - Dr Aiste Lengvenyte

2. “Obesity and Depression: An Immunometabolism Link?” - Becky Milton

Speakers: Dr Michele Santoni & Dr Amalie Couch

Talk titles:

1. "Investigation between the endocannabinoid and mesocorticolimbic systems in a maternal immune activation model of schizophrenia" - Dr Michele Santoni

2. “Cellular Conversations in the Context of Psychiatric Risk: Revealing Cell-Specific Responses to IL-6 in hiPSC-Derived Microglia and Neural Progenitor Cells” - Dr Amalie Couch

Speakers: Dr Femke Lamers

Talk Title: “Immunometabolic Dysregulations in Major Depressive Disorder: Implications and examples for personalized treatment”

Speakers: Courtney Worrell & Edward Palmer

Talk Titles:

1. “Exploring the effect of childhood trauma in the inflammatory gene expression differences observed in treatment response in depression” - Courtney Worrell

2. “Using Biomarkers to elucidate the role of inflammation in mental health – results from longitudinal and cohort studies” - Edward Palmer

Speakers: Prof Bernhard Baune

Talk Title: “Immunogenetics findings in Psychiatric disorders”

Speakers: Prof Aric Prather

Talk Title: “Sleep and Susceptibility to Infectious Illness: COVID-19 and Beyond”

Speakers: Dr Manish Jha & Dr David Goldsmith

Talk Titles:

1. “Weighing Options When Selecting Antidepressants: Can Immune Biomarkers Help?” - Dr Manish Jha

2. “Toward Achieving Specificity in Inflammation and Psychosis: Effects on Nucleus Accumbens – Insula Circuitry in Association with Deficits in Motivation and Pleasure” - Dr David Goldsmith

Speakers: Dr Anthony Vernon

Talk Title:  "Modelling immune activation in development using induced pluripotent stem cells"

Speakers: Dr Luca Sforzini & Dr Benedetta Vai

Talk Titles:

1. Gene-Expression Profiles in Major Depressive Disorder: From Clinical Phenotypes to Immunopsychiatry - by Dr Sforzini

2. Improving mood disorders healthcare: capturing the biological heterogeneity with machine learning” - by Dr Vai

Speakers: Prof Marion Leboyer

Talk Title: Immuno-Genetic Background of Major Psychiatric Disorder

Speaker: Professor Greg Miller

Talk Title: Understanding the Health Consequences of Children’s Exposure to Violence

Speakers: Dr Giulia Lombardo & Dr Andrea Ballesio

Talk Titles:

“Sex Hormones & Inflammation in Major Depression Disorder” by Dr Giulia Lombardo

“Inflammation and depression: a prospective from insomnia research” by Dr Andrea Ballesio

Speaker: Professor Igor Branchi

Talk Title: “Breaking free from the inflammatory trap of depression: regulating the interplay between immune activation and plasticity to foster mental health”

Speakers: Philippe Kerr & Dr Valentina Mosienko

Talk titles:

"Is allostatic load more than the sum of its parts? Using network analyses to profile patterns of physiological dysregulation among controls and patients with mood disorders with low and high allostatic load” by Philippe Kerr.

“Astrocytes as targets of antidepressants” by Dr Valentina Mosienko.

Speaker: Professor Neil Harrison

Talk title: From Neuroimaging to Immunopsychiatry

Speakers: Dr Daniel Martins & Jonas Hagenberg

Talk Titles:

“Multimodal Neuroimaging in Neuroimmunopsychiatry: the pressing case of Post-COVID19 fatigue syndrome” by Dr Daniel Martins.

“Multi-omics clustering of transdiagnostic cases reveals two sub-groups of immune-related depression” by Jonas Hagenberg.

Speaker: Professor Sonja Entringer

Talk Title: Maternal Stress Biology and Fetal Programming of Health and Disease Risk

Speaker: Prof Michael Benros

Talk Title: ImmunoPsychiatry – Evidence from large-scale studies to detailed clinical studies

Speakers: Dr Jonathan Rogers & Juliette Giacobbe

Talk Titles:

"The Neuroimmunology of Catatonia” by Dr Jonathan Rogers.

“Modelling the Effects of Stress on Microglia In-Vitro: Relevance for early-life stress and depression” by Juliette Giacobbe.

Speaker: Dr Caroline Menard

Talk Title: Sex-specific Neurovascular and Immune Alterations Underlie Stress Responses in Mice and Human Depression: Opportunities for novel therapeutic approaches and biomarkers

Speaker: Dr Christoph Anacker

Talk Title: “Stress Susceptibility & Resilience: The Role Of The Ventral Hippocampus”

Speakers: Dr Sinead King & Dr Tom Pollak

Talk Titles:

“Early life Adversity, functional connectivity and cognitive performance in Schizophrenia: The mediating role of inflammation” by Dr Sinead King.

“Autoantibodies and the Brain: Autoimmune psychosis and beyond” by Dr Tom Pollak.

Speaker: Dr Livia de Picker

Talk Title: “The Future of Immunopsychiatry”

Speakers: Dr Rebecca Strawbridge & Dr Melanie Föcking

Talk Titles:

"Can we use inflammatory markers to personalise treatment for treatment-resistant depression?" by Dr Rebecca Strawbridge.

"Proteomics Tackling Psychosis as a Pathway disorder – Fishing for complement" by Dr Melanie Föcking.

Speaker: Dr Aniko Korosi

Talk Title: “Early-life stress as risk factor for Alzheimer’s Disease: Focus on (neuro) inflammation and lipid mediators”