CIACCO 2025

Welcome

We are pleased to announce the CIACCO-2025 (12th Annual symposium on Cytokines in Inflammation, Ageing, CanCer and Obesity) on June 12-13, 2025 at "The Gait" Conference Hall, Bishop's University, Sherbrooke, QC.

Objectives of the event

CIACCO Symposia is a not-for-profit organization established through the collective effort of immunologists, microbiologists and cancer biologists from Université de Sherbrooke, Université de Montreal, McGill University, Université Laval and University of Ottawa.

CIACCO symposia seeks to advance education and research in cytokine biology by hosting an annual symposium featuring the latest research on physiological functions, pathological roles, regulatory mechanisms, and therapeutic targeting of cytokine signaling pathways in health and disease.

The major topics of CIACCO symposium include but are not limited to

· Cytokines in Inflammation and Immunity

· Cytokines in Ageing and Senescence

· Cytokines in Cancer Initiation, Progression and Control

· Cytokines in Obesity and Metabolism

CIACCO symposium attracts about 120 graduate students and faculty members, and hosts invited talks by established researchers and new investigators. CIACCO provides an ideal platform for students and postdocs to present their research, get feedback and establish contacts within the cytokine research community encompassing diverse fields of biomedical research in a convivial environment.

Student organizers

Akouavi Julite Irmine Quenum (PhD - Microbiology & Infectious diseases, UdS)

Mozhdeh Namvarpour (PhD - Immunology & Cell Biology, UdS)

Noah Wirasinghe (MSc -Experimental Medicine, McGill U)

Sara Ali Akbari (PhD - Immunology & Cell Biology, UdS)

Fjolla Rexhepi (PhD - Immunology & Cell Biology, UdS)

Organizing committee

Alfredo Menendez, PhD, Dept of Microbiology and Infectious diseases (U de Sherbrooke)

Sonia Del Rincon, PhD. Lady Davis Institute (McGill University)

Gerardo Ferbeyre, MD, PhD. Department of Biochemistry (U de Montréal)

Jörg Fritz, PhD. Dept of Microbiology and Immunology (McGill University)

Seung-Hwan Lee, PhD. Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology (U Ottawa)

Subburaj Ilangumaran, PhD. Department of Immunology and Cell Biology (U de Sherbrooke)

Moutih Rafei, PhD. Department of Pharmacology (U de Montréal)

Sheela Ramanathan, PhD. Department of Immunology and Cell Biology (U de Sherbrooke)

Manu Rangachari, PhD. Department of Molecular Medicine (U Laval)

Caroline Saucier, PhD, Department of Immunology and Cell Biology (U de Sherbrooke)

Cédric Tremblay, PhD, Department of Immunology (U of Manitoba)