Course Overview
The Cajal Course on Neuroimmunology will provide a comprehensive overview of the interactions between the nervous and immune systems, with a focus on microglia, macrophages, and adaptive immunity. The program will cover both physiological and pathological aspects, exploring the roles of microglia in brain homeostasis, their response to injury, and their involvement in neurodegenerative diseases. Sessions on macrophages will address their functions in the central and peripheral nervous systems, highlighting their contributions to neuroinflammation and tissue repair. The adaptive immune system’s influence on neurological conditions will also be discussed, including T and B cell responses in autoimmunity and neurodegeneration. The course will finally cover a session on body-brain interaction and the glymphatic system, in health and disease.
Combining lectures from leading experts in the field with advanced hands-on training, this course will cover a variety of approaches, including immune cell profiling by flow cytometry and histology, metabolic investigations, imaging techniques, in different in vitro and in vivo models, such as primary immune cells, iPSC-derived microglia and preclinical mouse models.
Course Directors
University of Lausanne, Switzerland
University of Bordeaux, France
University of Cambridge, UK
Keynote Speakers
Sonia Garel, Institut de biologie de l’École normale supérieure Paris, France
Michael Heneka, Luxemburg University, Luxemburg
Jonathan Kipnis, Washington Univ School of Medicine, USA
Arthur Liesz, Ludwig-Maximilians Munich University, Germany
Marco Prinz, Freiburg University, Germany
Rejane Rua, Centre d’Immunologie de Marseille Luminy, France
Michal Schwartz, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Andrew Greenhalgh, Manchester University, UK
Instructors
Pavle Boskovic, Washington University School of Medicine, USA
Amy Dashwood, Cambridge University, UK
Mohamad El Amki, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Max Fliegauf, University of Freiburg, Germany
Saudina Mateus Gomes, Aix-Marseille Université, France
Charlotte Madore, University of Bordeaux, France
Katia Monsorno, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Katerina Palios, Cambridge University, UK
Luca Peruzzotti-Jametti, Cambridge University, UK
Audrey Romano, Aix-Marseille Université, France
Daan Verhaege, Washington University School of Medicine, USA
Sebastiaan De Schepper, VIP Antwerp, Belgium
Course Topics
Course topics will include:
- Microglia in the healthy and diseased brain
- CNS-associated macrophages in physiology and pathology
- Adaptive immunity and CNS interactions
- The glymphatic system and brain immunity
- Neuroimmune interactions in body-brain communication
Bordeaux School of Neuroscience, France
The Bordeaux School of Neuroscience is part of Bordeaux Neurocampus, the Neuroscience Department of the University of Bordeaux. Christophe Mulle, its current director, founded it in 2015. Throughout the year, renowned scientists, promising young researchers and many students from any geographical horizon come to the School.
The school works on this principle: training in neuroscience research through experimental practice, within the framework of a real research laboratory.
Facilities
Their dedicated laboratory (500m2), available for about 20 trainees, is equipped with a wet lab, an in vitro and in vivo electrophysiology room, IT facilities, a standard cellular imaging room, an animal facility equipped for behavior studies and surgery and catering/meeting spaces. They also have access to high-level core facilities within the University of Bordeaux. They offer their services to international training teams who wish to organize courses in all fields of neuroscience thanks to a dedicated staff for the full logistics (travels, accommodation, on-site catering, social events) and administration and 2 scientific managers in support of the experimentation.
Registration
Fee : 4.000 € (includes tuition fee, accommodation and meals)
Applications will open soon!
The CAJAL programme offers 4 stipends per course (waived registration fee, not including travel expenses). Please apply through the course online application form. In order to identify candidates in real need of a stipend, any grant applicant is encouraged to first request funds from their lab, institution or government.
Kindly note that if you benefited from a Cajal stipend in the past, you are no longer eligible to receive this kind of funding. However other types of funding (such as partial travel grants from sponsors) might be made available after the participants selection pro- cess, depending on the course.
