Vaccinology: A New Era in Immune-Driven Vaccine Design (D3)
May 4-7, 2026  | INEC Killarney Convention Centre, Killarney, KY, Ireland
Galit Alter, Dan H. Barouch, Lynda M. Stuart and Christopher Chiu
Scholarship Deadline: Jan. 8, 2026 | Abstract Deadline: Apr. 14, 2026 | Early Registration Deadline: Mar. 6, 2026
* Session Chair † Invited but not yet accepted | Program current as of September 12, 2025 8 AM | For the most up-to-date details, visit https://www.keystonesymposia.org
Monday, May 4, 2026
4:00–8:00 PM Registration
6:00–8:00 PM Welcome Mixer
Tuesday, May 5, 2026
7:00–8:00 AM Breakfast
7:30–8:00 AM Poster Setup
7:45–5:00 PM Poster Viewing
8:00–9:00 AM Welcome and Keynote Address
  Bali Pulendran, Stanford University School of Medicine
Next Generation Immune Inspired Vaccine Design
 
9:00–11:15 AM How Can We Overcome Waning and Imprinted Immunity?
  Robert A. Seder, NIAID, National Institutes of Health
Anamnestic Immunity - The Key to Durability
 
  Adolfo García-Sastre, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Breaking the Imprint
 
  Speaker to be Announced
 
  Short Talk(s) Chosen from Abstracts
 
9:30–9:50 AM Coffee Break
11:15–12:15 PM Lunch
12:00–2:30 PM Poster Session 1
3:00–4:30 PM Panel 1: Is a One Size Fits All Vaccine Possible for All Populations
  * Galit Alter, Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT, and Harvard
 
  * Christopher Chiu, Imperial College London
 
4:30–5:00 PM Coffee Available
5:00–7:00 PM Dissecting and Harnessing the GC Response?
  Gabriel D. Victora, Rockefeller University
GC Reactions in Mice
 
  Michela Locci, University of Pennsylvania
Dissecting the GC Response
 
  Carola G. Vinuesa, Francis Crick Institute
Driving Productive Extra and Intra Follicular B Cell Immunity
 
  Short Talk(s) Chosen from Abstracts
 
7:00–8:00 PM On Own for Dinner
Wednesday, May 6, 2026
7:00–8:00 AM Breakfast
8:00–11:00 AM How Can We Use Correlates and AI to Accelerate Vaccine Development?
  Galit Alter, Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT, and Harvard
Advancing Platform Level Correlates of Immunity
 
  John Tsang, Yale University School of Medicine
AI & Systems Immunology for Vaccine Development
 
  Lisa Wagar, University of California, Irvine
Modeling Vaccine Induced Immunity to Drive Vaccine Design
 
  Francis Impens, Ghent University
T Cell Epitope Discovery based AMR Vaccines
 
  Short Talk(s) Chosen from Abstracts
 
9:00–9:20 AM Coffee Break
11:00–1:00 PM Poster Setup
11:00–5:00 PM On Own for Lunch
1:00–10:00 PM Poster Viewing
3:00–4:30 PM Career Roundtable
4:30–5:00 PM Coffee Available
5:00–7:00 PM How Can We Exploit New Platforms to Accelerate Vaccine Development and Global Equity?
  Lynda M. Stuart, Institute for Protein Design, University of Washington
Mimicking Pathogen Shape to Train the Immune Response
 
  Annaliesa S. Anderson, Pfizer, Inc
Next Generation Vaccines for Bacteria
 
  Jean-François X. Toussaint †, Sanofi
Next Gen Adjuvants/LNPs for Vaccine Design and Development
 
  Short Talk(s) Chosen from Abstracts
 
7:00–8:00 PM Social Hour with Dinner
7:30–10:00 PM Poster Session 2
Thursday, May 7, 2026
7:00–8:00 AM Breakfast
8:00–11:00 AM Do We Need Tissue Resident Immunity to Achieve Mucosal Protection?
  Christopher Chiu, Imperial College London
The Power of the Human Challenge Model
 
  Daniela M. Ferreira, University of Oxford
Dissecting Mucosal Correlates to Bacterial Pathogens
 
  Dan H. Barouch, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Maximizing Mucosal Response via Local Immunization
 
  Donna L Farber, Columbia University Medical Center
Tissue Resident T Cells across Organs
 
  Short Talk(s) Chosen from Abstracts
 
9:00–9:20 AM Coffee Break
11:00–5:00 PM On Own for Lunch
3:00–4:30 PM Panel 2: Vaccine Equity and Global Health
  * Lynda M. Stuart, Institute for Protein Design, University of Washington
 
  * Dan H. Barouch, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
 
4:30–5:00 PM Coffee Available
5:00–6:45 PM How Does Immunology Inform Next Generation Therapeutic Vaccine Design?
  Ari Waisman, University of Mainz, Medical School
Tolerizing Vaccines to Fight Autoimmunity
 
  Michal Bassani-Sternberg, University Hospital of Lausanne, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research
Inspiring Cancer Vaccine Design with Immunopeptidomics
 
  Meklit Workneh, Moderna
Norovirus Vaccines
 
  Short Talk(s) Chosen from Abstracts
 
6:45–7:00 PM Meeting Wrap-Up: Outcomes and Future Directions (Organizers)
7:00–8:00 PM Social Hour with Dinner
8:00–11:00 PM Cash Bar
8:00–11:00 PM Entertainment
Friday, May 8, 2026
12:00–11:59 PM Departure