“Immune-targeted treatments for depression: why the trials disagree and how to design trials that don’t”

“From social isolation in rates to social connection in humans: How the social environment shapes health and immunity”

“Inflammation & Depression: Some Questions of Causality”

“Take a Deep Breath: Lung-brain signaling in mental health”

“Sex-specific Neuroimmune Pathways from Depression to Neurodegeneration”

Title: “RNA Biomarkers for Precision Immunopsychiatry in Major Depression”

Title: “Stressed Beginnings, Vulnerable Minds: The Neurobiology of Early-Life Stress across the Lifespan”

Title: “Abnormal mitochondria and inflammation in bipolar disorder”

Title: “Immunopsychiatry From a Clinical Perspective”

Title: “Type I Interferon at the Maternal–Fetal Interface Alters Microglia and Synaptic Integrity in Neurodevelopmental Disorders”

Title: “Genetic evidence for repurposing immunomodulatory drugs for major depressive disorder”

Title: “Innate Immunity at the Crossroads of Neurological Health and Disease”

Title: “From Immune Stratification to Molecular Lipid Mapping: Translational Insights from Psychosis and Perinatal Depression”

Title: “Immune and Kynurenine Pathway Alterations Across Risk and Remission in Adolescent Depression”

Title: Inflammation, Ancient Practices and Targeted Therapies

Titles:

• "A brain-body axis promotes a sexual dimorphic microglia response in the visual cortex after ketamine anaesthesia” - Dr Alessandro Venturino

• “Modelling the Intergenerational Impact of Antenatal Depression: How Oestradiol Modulates Inflammatory Responses in Fetal Hippocampal Cells” - Maddy Kirkpatrick

Title: TBA

Title: One Size Does Not Fit All - The therapeutic effect of additional statins in schizophrenia is restricted to a particular group of patients showing indications of a pro-inflammatory setpoint in blood monocytes

Title: “Social Immunopsychiatry of Schizophrenia: Integrating social factors & immune profiles to better understand psychotic disorders”

Title: “Understanding the role of inflammation in depression and cognitive functioning”

Title: Statins as antidepressants in patients with comorbid obesity and major depression?: Results from the multicentre, randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled SIMCODE trial

Speaker: Dr Julie Lasselin

Talk Title: “Inflammation-induced emotional and behavioural changes in humans and role of top-down factors”

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