ABSTRACTS The 28th EFI European Immunogenetics and Histocompatibility Conference Stockholm, Sweden June 25th –28th , 2014

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COMMITTEES Organising Committee Co-chairs: Mats Bengtsson (Uppsala) Marie Schaffer (Stockholm) Ann-Charlotte Wikström (Stockholm) Members: Josefina Dykes (Lund) Dan Hauzenberger (Stockholm) Jan Holgersson (Gothenburg) Ann-Sofie Liedberg (Lund) Bo Nilsson (Uppsala)

EFI EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Gottfried Fischer (Austria) Ann-Margaret Little (UK) Mats Bengtsson (Sweden) Valerie Dubois (France) Gwendaline Guidicelli (France)

President Secretary Deputy Secretary Treasurer Deputy Treasurer

EFI COUNCILLORS Carlo Carcassi (Italy) Peter Horn (Germany) Martin Petrek (Czech Republic) Michel Toungouz Névessignsky (Belgium) Blanca Vidan-Jeras (Slovenia) Carlos Vilches (Spain)

EFI SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE AND REVIEWERS Katharina Fleischhauer (Germany) Rainer Blasczyk (Germany) Ronald Bontrop (The Netherlands) Frits Koning (The Netherlands) Ludvig Sollid (Norway) Jean-Marie Tiercy (Switzerland) John Trowsdale (UK) Mats Bengtsson (Sweden)

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Chair

LOC (ex-officio)

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Foreword from the Chair of the Local Organising Committee On behalf of the Local Organizing Committee, we are happy to welcome you to Stockholm for the 28th European Immunogenetics and Histocompatibility Conference. The theme for this year’s conference “From Genes to Therapy” highlights all the various aspects of science and clinical practice that our Society represents. The conference will address issues from basic science of gene regulation and identification of polymorphisms to highly sophisticated investigations of transplant recipients and donors, to state-of-the-art clinical therapies. We hope that you will enjoy the long bright nights in Stockholm and that you will spend some time exploring our city built on water and its beautiful surroundings. We have chosen to have the conference somewhat later in the year than usual, just after midsummer, to give you all the possibility to enjoy the unique Nordic light. We hope that you will enjoy the social programme with music, dining and dancing, all taking place on the banks of Lake Mälaren. Hereby we would like to express our gratitude to the EFI Executive Committee, the EFI Scientific Committee, the EFI Education Committee and Members of the Organizing Committee. They have all provided us with invaluable help and support in preparation of the Scientific Programme, teaching sessions, evaluation of all the abstracts and preparation of the Conference app. We are also very grateful to all the plenary speakers, leading experts in their fields, for sharing their work and knowledge. A conference of this size is not possible to arrange without support from a number of commercial sponsors and a professional conference organization. We sincerely thank all our sponsors for their contributions, interest and hard work with the 28th European Immunogenetics and Histocompatibility Conference. We welcome you all to Stockholm in June, to participate in what we hope will be an inspiring meeting both scientifically and socially!

Mats Bengtsson, Marie Schaffer and Ann-Charlotte Wikström, Chairpersons 28th EFI Conference

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Welcome to the 28th EFI European Immunogenetics and Histocompatibility Conference in Stockholm! Stockholm and the focus of Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics: firstly, there is the connection with a place where founders and pioneers of the field that we all are working in have been highly honoured; “for their discoveries concerning genetically determined structures on the cell surface that regulate immunological reactions”, “for their discoveries concerning the specificity of the cell mediated immune defence”, to cite two exemplary statements of the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute. Secondly, from a more ‘applied’ viewpoint, Stockholm is one of the places where a highly useful and widely used HLA-typing technique has been developed very early on. These are two of many reasons that make it seem only logical that the EFI community should gather exactly here. However, until such an event is going to happen there are quite some things to arrange. Thankfully, the local organising committee together with the EFI Scientific and Education Committee took the effort, organised the facilities and prepared the programme for our meeting from June 25–28, 2014. The Ceppellini lecture, traditionally the first lecture of the conference, will this year be delivered by Marco Colonna from the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.A. After this and until the closing ceremony there is space for celebrating other awardees, most notably the Julia Bodmer Award for young scientists, and vast opportunities to make scientific, educational and social interactions. The motto of the conference ‘From Genes to Therapy’ reflects nicely the flow from basic research to clinical service, the ‘translational’ aspect that is so characteristic for the continuous development of the stunning field called Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics. Let’s enjoy the flow.

Gottfried Fischer EFI President

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© 2014 John Wiley & Sons A/S. Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd Tissue Antigens, 2014, 84, 1–4

Abstracts of the 28th EFI European Immunogenetics and Histocompatibility Conference, June 25th–28th, 2014, Stockholm, Sweden.

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