IMMUNOMETNET annual meeting 2026

We are pleased to announce that the registrations for the upcoming 2026 ImmunoMetNet annual symposium on July 2nd are open.

Thursday July 2nd, 2026
9:00 am - 5:00 pm, followed by drinks and snacks to fuel ImmunoMet-Networking
Amsterdam UMC - O2 building auditorium at VUmc

Friday July 3rd, 2026
workshops provided by our collaborators and sponsors (to be confirmed) 

Drop us an email on immunometnet@amsterdamumc.nl if you want to present your immunometabolism-related work. We have reserved some spots for this in the program

Confirmed speakers:

• Keynote lecture | Gerard Krönke (Charité, Berlin, Germany) – Metabolic checkpoints controlling onset and resolution of inflammation”

• Niels Riksen (Radboud UMC) – Metabolic regulation of trained immunity in cardiovascular disease
• Vincent de Boer (WUR) – Hidden oxygen constraints distort mitochondrial phenotypes in human immune cells 
• Chun-Xia Yi (AUMC) – Microglial immunometabolism in obesity 
• Ramon Arens (LUMC) – Energizing CD8 T cells: Decoding Metabolism to Enhance Cancer Immunotherapy 
• Bart Everts (LUMC) – Metabolic control of type 2 immunity:  O-GlcNAcylation does the sweet-talking 
• Celia Berkers (Utrecht University) – Metabolomics in immuno-metabolism
• Jeffrey Kroon (AUMC) – Glycolysis and beyond: endothelial metabolism as gatekeeper for inflammation and atherogenesis
• Melina Ioannidis (Radboud UMC) – 4-Hydroxynonenal suppresses IL-10 production during infection
• Fréderique de Graaf (LUMC) – Thriving in Tissues: CD8+ Tissue Resident Memory T cells in Health and Disease
• Nienke Goedhart (AUMC) – Glutamine-driven mTORC1 activity enforces glycolytic bias, hyperactivation and aberrant proliferation in T cells in leukemia
• Adam Majcher (LUMC) – MetaboInvestigator: A platform for connecting deep metabolic research with immune cell phenotype
• Jorrit De Waele (University of Antwerp): DRP1 depletion in NK cells prevents hypoxia-induced mitochondrial and functional dysfunction

Please share this invitation with your lab members and collaborators that are interested in immunometabolism.

Find the full program here:

Annual meeting – ImmunoMetNet

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