We’re excited to welcome over 1,500 immunologists to ACC Liverpool this December for BSI Congress 2025! With 4 days of lectures, workshops and networking sessions, this year’s Congress will include an exciting programme spanning a range of topics across immunology.
Professor Judi Allen from The University of Manchester will be joining us as our new keynote speaker. Judi is Professor of Immunobiology in the Lydia Becker Institute of Immunology & Inflammation and the Manchester Cell Matrix Centre where her lab focuses on host immune response to parasite infection with a focus on type 2 immunity. She is also the Director of the recently announced MRC Centre of Research Excellence in Exposome Immunology.
As always, there will be ample opportunity to network, connect with event sponsors and exhibitors, present and attend poster sessions, and attend sessions on personal and professional development. Additionally, our ever-popular Congress party will be taking place on Wednesday evening, so don’t forget to pack your dancing shoes!
Keynote speaker
Judi Allen
Professor of Immunobiology,
Lydia Becker Institute of Immunology & Inflammation, UK
Judi Allen has a B.Sc. from Bates College, Maine, USA and a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. Following a postdoc at Imperial College, London, she established her own group at the University of Edinburgh. In 2016 Judi moved to the University of Manchester, where she is currently a Professor of Immunobiology in the Lydia Becker Institute of Immunology & Inflammation and the Manchester Cell Matrix Centre.
In October this year, Judi became Director of the MRC Centre of Research Excellence in Exposome Immunology. The Allen laboratory investigates the host immune response to parasite infection with a focus on type 2 immunity, the response mammals characteristically make to large multicellular parasites (helminths). Judi’s lab is best known for studying macrophage function in type 2 settings, which led to an increased understanding of the evolutionary relationship between type 2 immunity, parasite control and tissue repair. Her lab is currently investigating how the type 2 cytokines, IL-4 and IL-13, regulate the extra-cellular matrix.
Judi has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (2023), a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences and is an EMBO member.
