Immunology Retreat at Kloster Schöntal

Immunology Training Network Erlangen, Tübingen and Würzburg

The Annual Meeting of the immunology graduate programs from three universities convened for the 12^th time

Once a year the PhD students of the graduate program Immunomodulation at Würzburg University are responsible for the independent organization of a Mini-Symposium together with fellow students from Erlangen and Tübingen Universities. This year’s meeting from May 29-31, 2017 took place in the pristine place Kloster Schöntal, one hour South of Würzburg. The Beilhack lab contributed to the scientific program three oral presentations and two scientific posters. Julia Hartweg, Katja Ottmüller and Tim Steinfatt were selected for talks to present and discuss their research progress. Musga Qureischi and Haroon Shaikh presented their research projects at the poster sessions. As a highlight of the meeting, Prof. Hans-Martin Jäck and Prof. Hans-Georg Rammensee honored the manifold scientific achievements of Prof. Thomas Hünig. On top of his stellar scientific career, Prof. Hünig also founded the graduate program Immunomodulation at Würzburg University.

Over the years the annual meeting of the immunology graduate programs has proven highly attractive for scholars, supervisors and guests alike because it can be organized as an exciting, joint undertaking with other graduate colleges working on associated topics. For more than a decade the three-day annual meeting has been organized together with the Graduate Colleges Immunomodulation of Würzburg University, Immunotherapy of Tübigen University and Adaptive Immunity of Erlangen University. The scientific program comprises short presentations of the own work of the scholars in form of oral presentations and a multi-poster session. The preferred venues were solitary conference centres (such as Kloster Banz, Kloster Schöntal or Kloster Neresheim) in beautiful surroundings to encourage the communication between supervisors, guests and the students of the different graduate colleges. Also at this year’s meeting the atmosphere was extremely beneficial for the scholars and the lecturers and enabled close interactions between all participants.