Conferences

You can meet the editors of Nature Reviews Immunology (Alexandra Flemming, Yvonne Bordon, Lucy Bird and Kirsty Minton), of Nature Immunology (Jamie Wilson, Laurie Dempsey, Ioana Visan, Nick Bernard, Stephanie Houston and Paula Jauregui), of Nature (Ursula Weiss and Zoltan Fehervari) and of Nature Medicine (Saheli Sadanand) at some of the following meetings.

To promote a meeting here, please send the details to nri@nature.com for consideration.

For further listings of science events across all disciplines see www.nature.com/natureevents/science/.

 

FEBRUARY 2025

16–19, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Keystone Symposium: Tuberculosis: Heterogeneity from Experimental Models to Human Disease

17–20, Keystone, Colorado, USA
​Keystone Symposium: Antibodies as Drugs: Innovative Formats, Design and Engineering

18–21, Banff, Alberta, Canada
Keystone Symposium: Host-Microbe Co-Evolution in Human Health: The Microbiome-Pathobiont Continuum

19–21, Lorne, Victoria, Australia
15th Lorne Infection & Immunity

20–22, Munich, Germany
5th International Conference on Lymphocyte Engineering

23–26, Monte Carlo, Monaco
Keystone Symposium: B Cells: Multifaceted Functions and Dysfunctions
Kirsty Minton and Ursula Weiss

23–26, Farnhams Hall, Hertfordshire, UK
Immune Cell Interactions in Development, Homeostasis and Immunity

23–28, Ventura, California, USA
Gordon Research Conference: Antimicrobial Peptides

MARCH 2025

3–6, Hannover, Germany
Keystone Symposium: Myeloid Cells: Roles in Different Tissue Microenvironments
Nick Bernard

3–5, Shenzhen, China
SMART Symposium in Immunology: Deconstruction and Reconstruction of Lymphocytes for Precision Medicine
Lucy Bird

9–12, San Francisco, California, USA
32nd Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI)
Paula Jauregui

12–15, Davos, Switzerland
World Immune Regulation Meeting

16–19, Banff, Alberta, Canada
Keystone Symposium: Cancer Immunotherapy: Clinical Lessons to New Modalities
Alexandra Flemming

16–19, Banff, Alberta, Canada
Keystone Symposium: Immune Cell Therapies: Advances in Cancer and Autoimmune Disease
Alexandra Flemming

17–19, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
IMMOX'25: Genetic variation and barrier immunity
Jamie Wilson

24, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Oxford Immunology Symposium 2025

24–28, Suzhou, China
Cold Spring Harbor Asia Meeting: Liver Metabolism, Inflammation and Cancer

26–28, Madrid, Spain
European Phagocyte Workshop

30–2 April, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
Keystone Symposium: Malaria: Mechanisms of Immunity & Protection

30–4 April, Ventura, California, USA
Gordon Research Conference: Translating Sex Differences in Immunity to Improve Health

APRIL 2025

7–10, Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Keystone Symposium: HIV Cure: Antiretroviral Therapy-Free Control of HIV Infection

8–10, Frankfurt, Germany
4th Resolution Days: The resolution of inflammation, new avenues and opportunities for innovative therapeutics?

8–11, Paris, France
EMBO Workshop: European 2025 Symposium on the Immune System of Bacteria (SISB2025)

9–12, Freiburg, Germany
International Symposium on Perinatal and Early Life Immunity

10–12, Belgrade, Serbia
Henry Kunkel Society Meeting: Genes & Immunity
Jamie Wilson

13–16, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA
28th Woods Hole Immunoparasitology (WHIP) Meeting
Zoltan Fehervari

14–15, Nottingham, UK
British Society for Matrix Biology: ECM, immunity and infection

22–26, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, USA
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Meeting: Systems Immunology

24, London, UK (or virtual)
World Immunology Day 2025: The immune system and your brain

27–2 May, Les Houches, France
EMBO Workshop: Immunobiophysics: from fundamental physics to understanding the immune response

27–1 May, Kauai, Hawai'i
ThymUS

MAY 2025

3–7, Honolulu, Hawai'i
Annual Meeting of the American Association of Immunologists
Jamie Wilson and Ursula Weiss

5–10, Sissi, Crete, Greece
Aegean Conference: 6th International Conference on ImmunoMetabolism: Molecular and Cellular Immunology of Metabolism 

5–9, Suzhou, China
Cold Spring Harbor Asia Meeting: Infection, Inflammation and Cancer

7–9, Bruges, Belgium
Immune Niches in Cancer and Inflammation
Lucy Bird and Zoltan Fehervari

10–15, Sissi, Crete, Greece
Aegean Conference: 17th International Conference on Complement Therapeutics

11–14, Whistler, British Columbia, Canada
Keystone Symposium: Single Cell Biology: Unique Cells to Tissue Ecosystems

11–16, Lucca (Barga), Italy
Gordon Research Conference: Neuroimmune Communication in Health & Disease
Yvonne Bordon and Ursula Weiss

12–16, Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, China
Cold Spring Harbor Asia Meeting: Cell Death and Innate Immunity
Kirsty Minton

13–15, Barcelona, Spain
European Association for Cancer Research: Defence is the Best Attack: Immuno-Oncology Breakthroughs

15–16, Ghent, Belgium
5th Ghent Gut Inflammation Group Meeting

15–17, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
The 8th Venusberg Meeting on Neuroinflammation

15–20, Sissi, Crete, Greece
Aegean Conference: 20th International Conference on Innate Immunity
Laurie Dempsey

20–23, Noosa, Queensland, Australia
ASI Mucosal Immunology and Microbiome Symposium

17–22, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
The American Society for Reproductive Immunology Annual Meeting

21–22, Vejle, Denmark
1st CiViA Symposium: Host Defense against Viral Infections
Paula Jauregui

20–23, Toronto, Canada
11th International γδ T Cell Conference

JUNE 2025

1–6, Waterville Valley, New Hampshire, USA
Gordon Research Conference: Phagocytes

4–7, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
Keystone Symposium: Vaccinology: Horizons Across Disease, Demography and Technology
Paula Jauregui

8–11, Whistler, British Columbia, USA
Keystone Symposium: Neuro-Immune Interactions: A Systems-Wide Perspective on Whole Organism Physiology

8–11, Whistler, British Columbia, USA
Keystone Symposium: Neurodegeneration: Linking Cellular Pathways to Therapeutic Strategies

8–11, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
21st Meeting of the Society for Natural Immunity (NK2025)
Jamie Wilson

10–13, Tübingen, Germany
6th Novel Concepts in Innate Immunity

18–20, Lyon, France
IRCI 2025: Immune Responses in Cancer and Infection

23–26, Hanover, Germany
Keystone Symposium: Climate Change & Infectious Disease Threats

24–27, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Federation of Clinical Immunology Societies: FOCIS 2025

28–2 July, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
FASEB Conference: Signal Transduction in the Immune System

JULY 2025

27–31, Niagara Falls, New York, USA
FASEB Conference: Autoimmunity

AUGUST 2025

3–7, Niagara Falls, New York, USA
FASEB Conference: Mechanisms of Immune Cell Development and Function

10–13, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
Keystone Symposium: Long COVID and Other Post-Acute Infection Syndromes

17–22, Vienna, Austria
19th International Congress of Immunology
Alexandra Flemming and Ursula Weiss

26–29, Basel, Switzerland
EMBO Workshop: Adaptive Immunity in Barrier Tissues

SEPTEMBER 2025

7–9, New York City, New York, USA
Cell Symposium: Neuro-immune axis: Charting the periphery 

7–10, Kyoto, Japan
19th Vaccine Congress

25–27, Kanazawa, Japan
84th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Cancer Association
Laurie Dempsey

OCTOBER 2025

1–2, Lausanne, Switzerland
2nd Symposium on the Immunobiology of Pattern Recognition Receptors

8–9, Burlington, Vermont, USA
2025 International Precision Vaccines Conference
Zoltan Fehervari

8–9, Tokyo, Japan
RIKEN-International Society of Microbiota First Conjoint Meeting: Targeting Microbiota

12–17, Chania, Crete, Greece
Aegean Conference: 4th International Conference on Oral Mucosal Immunity and Microbiome

13–17, Suzhou, China
Cold Spring Harbor Asia Meeting: Mitochondria and Metabolism in Health and Disease

15–18, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Latin American Society for Immunodeficiencies Meeting

19–23, Malahide, Ireland
FASEB Conference: HIV Reservoirs and Immune Control

19–23, Melbourne, Florida, USA
FASEB Conference: Immune Repertoire Decoding

27–31, Suzhou, China
Cold Spring Harbor Asia Meeting: Microbiome and Barrier Immunity

NOVEMBER 2025

2–4, Sitges, Spain
Cell Symposium: The Cancer-Immunity Cycle
Nick Bernard

2–5, Seattle, Washington, USA
Cytokines 2025

11–13, Tokyo, Japan
Princess Takamatsu Cancer Research Fund International Symposium
Zoltan Fehervari

DECEMBER 2025

1–4, Liverpool, UK
British Society for Immunology Congress
Jamie Wilson

3–5, Hyderabad, India
EMBO Lecture Course: Cell Autonomous Defence and Innate Immunity

JANUARY 2026

11–14, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Keystone Symposium: From Systems Immunology to Immunoengineering

11–14, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Keystone Symposium: Immunometabolism Across Scales: From Cells to Systems to Healthspan

12–15, Breckenridge, Colorado, USA
Keystone Symposium: Fungal Pathogens: Emerging Threats and Future Challenges

19–22, Keystone, Colorado, USA
Keystone Symposium: Autoimmunity & Autoinflammation: Translating Basic Mechanisms into Novel Therapeutic Approaches

FEBRUARY 2026

1–4, Banff, Alberta, Canada
Keystone Symposium: Antibodies as Drugs: Engineering and Computational Tools Enabling Clinical Advances

1–4, Banff, Alberta, Canada
Keystone Symposium: Emerging Cell Therapies

2–5, Banff, Alberta, Canada
Keystone Symposium: Stromal Immunology in Health and Disease

2–5, Banff, Alberta, Canada
Keystone Symposium: Fibrosis: Cross Organ Pathology and Pathways to Clinical Development

23–26, Keystone, Colorado, USA
Keystone Symposium: Hematopoiesis

23–26, Keystone, Colorado, USA
Keystone Symposium: Myeloid Cells: Functional Heterogeneity with Therapeutic Promise

MARCH 2026

15–18, Quebec, Canada
Keystone Symposium: Cancer Immunotherapy: Basic Mechanisms Informing Clinical Applications & Combinations

16–19, Keystone, Colorado, USA
Keystone Symposium: B Cells and Plasma Cells: Fundamental and Translational Biology

16–19, Keystone, Colorado, USA
Keystone Symposium: B and T Cell Collaboration in Lymphoid and Nonlymphoid Microenvironments

16–19, Breckenridge, Colorado, USA
Keystone Symposium: Gut-Brain Axis

22–25, Banff, Alberta, Canada
Keystone Symposium: Innate Immunity: Diversity in Host Defense and Disease

22–25, Banff, Alberta, Canada
Keystone Symposium: Aging: Immune Function and Organ Health

APRIL 2026

16–19, Breckenridge, Colorado, USA
Keystone Symposium: Decoding HIV Persistence: Strategies for Curing HIV Infection

16–19, Breckenridge, Colorado, USA
Keystone Symposium: HIV Vaccines: Intersections of Basic and Clinical Science

MAY 2026

17–20, Whistler, British Columbia, Canada
Keystone Symposium: Inflammation Resolution: Emerging Concepts, Mechanisms and Disease Insights

26–29, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
Immuno-Memphis in May. Harmonizing Immunotherapy: Tuning T cells to give cancer the blues

JUNE 2026

15–18, Hannover, Germany
Keystone Symposium: Viral Pathogenesis and Immunity: From Molecular Discoveries to Therapeutics

NOVEMBER 2026

3–6, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Oral Gut 3 Conference