InFLAMES Guest Seminar
2026-05-20 12:00 - 13:00 (Europe/Helsinki)
20th May at 12:00-13:00
Hybrid event
in in Medisiina C, Osmo Järvi lecture hall

Professor Antonio Lanzavecchia, National Institute of Molecular Genetics (INGM), Milano, Italy
Immunodominance in CD8 T cell responses

Host: Sirpa Jalkanen (sirjal@utu.fi)

Coffee and sandwiches served at 11:30.

Those outside Turku, please request the online link from sampo.koivunen@utu.fi by May 19.

Professor Antonio Lanzavecchia is known for his work on antigen presentation, T cell activation, immunological memory and human monoclonal antibodies. Lanzavecchia obtained a medical degree from the University of Pavia, where he specialized in paediatrics and in infectious diseases. Since 1983 he works in Switzerland, first as a scientific member of the Basel Institute for Immunology and since 2000 as the founding director of the Institute for Research in Biomedicine in Bellinzona. Lanzavecchia has been professor of Immunology at the University of Genova and Siena and at the Swiss Federal Institute of technology, ETH Zürich. He is member of the EMBO, fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and is honorary member of the American Society for Immunology, of the Swiss Society of Immunology and of the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences. In 2016 he has been elected as international member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. He received the EMBO gold Medal, the Cloetta prize, the Robert Koch prize, the Sanofi-Institut Pasteur prize and the Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine. Lanzavecchia is the scientific Founder of Humabs Biomed, now a subsidiary of Vir Biotecnology and is currently senior Research fellow at Vir Biotecnology. His academic research continues at the INGM.

Selected publications

Phad, G.E., Pinto, D., Foglierini, M. et al. Clonal structure, stability and dynamics of human memory B cells and circulating plasmablasts. Nat Immunol 23, 1076–1085 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41590-022-01230-1

Chen, Y., Xu, K., Piccoli, L. et al. Structural basis of malaria RIFIN binding by LILRB1-containing antibodies. Nature 592, 639–643 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03378-6

Cassotta, A., Paparoditis, P. et al. Deciphering and predicting CD4+ T cell immunodominance of influenza virus hemagglutinin. J Exp Med 5 October 2020; 217 (10): e20200206. doi: https://doi.org/10.1084/jem.20200206

Joshua Tan, Luca Piccoli, Antonio Lanzavecchia. 2019. The Antibody Response to Plasmodium falciparum: Cues for Vaccine Design and the Discovery of Receptor-Based Antibodies. Annual Review Immunology. 37:225-246. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-immunol-042617-053301
