New Perspectives on Immunity to Infection
A. Sher, J. Howard, J.-L.Casanova, K. Fitzgerald
EMBL Heidelberg, Germany
Saturday 19 May - Tuesday 22 May 2012
Preliminary Programme
SESSION OVERVIEW
Saturday 19 May 2012
Session 1 Novel approaches for understanding the pathogenesis of infectious disease
Sunday 20 May 2012
Session 2 : Influence of the microbiome and nutrition on host defense
Session 3 :Genetic Determinants of host resistance
Monday 21 May 2012
Session 4: Genetic and molecular determinants of Pathogen virulence
Session 5: Cell Biology of the host- pathogen interaction
Tuesday 22 May 2012
Session 6: Molecular mechanisms of innate recognition
This is only the PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME (including tentative talk titles)
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Session 1: Novel approaches for understanding the pathogenesis of infectious disease Anne O’Garra - National Institute for Medical Research, United Kingdom "Regulation of the immune response in tuberculosis: from mouse models to human disease" Antonio Lanzavechia - IRB, Switzerland "Dissecting the human T and B cell response to pathogens" Robert Coffmann - Dynavax Technologies, USA "to be confirmed" Selected talks from submitted abstracts |
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Keynote Session: Max Cooper - Emory University, USA "Evolution of Adaptive Immunity" |
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Session 2 : Influence of the microbiome and nutrition on host defense Dan Littman - New York University, USA "title to be confirmed" Andrew Macpherson - University of Bern, Switzerland "IgA : a useful form of dementia?" Rick Maizels - University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom "Immunoregulation by helminth parasites" Eric Pamer - Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, USA "to be confirmed" Selected talks from submitted abstracts |
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Session 3 :Genetic Determinants of host resistance Jean-Laurent Casanova - Rockefeller Institute, USA "Toward a genetic theory of infectious diseases" Chris Goodnow - The Australian National University, Australia "Exome sequencing and forward genetic analysis of adaptive immunity" Phillipe Gros - McGill University, Canada "Role of IRF transcriptional regulators in response to infection and in acute inflammation" Lluis Quintana-Murci - Pasteur Institute, France "The evolutionary genetics approach in human immunity to infection" Selected talks from submitted abstracts |
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Session 4: Genetic and molecular determinants of Pathogen virulence Jean Pieters - University of Basel, Switzerland "Balancing the Signaling Pathways Involved in the Interaction of Mycobacterium tuberculosis with the Host" Dominique Soldati-Favre - University of Geneva, Switzerland "Molecular events governing the lytic cycle in Apicomplexa" Jeremy Luban - University of Geneva, Switzerland "TRIM5 is an innate immune sensor for the capsid lattice of HIV-1 and other retroviruses" Maria Mota - Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Portugal "How is Plasmodium firstly recognized and controlled by the host? - a still fundamental but unanswered question" Selected talks from submitted abstracts |
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Session 5: Cell Biology of the host- pathogen interaction Pascale Cossart - Pasteur Institute, France "Chromatin remodeling and a type III interferon response upon Listeria infection" Jonathan Howard - Cologne University, Germany "Toward a genetic theory of infectious diseases" Jonathan Yewdell - NIAID NIH, USA "title to be confirmed" Arturo Zychlinsky - Max Planck Institute Berlin, Germany "NETs - from infection to autoimmunity" Selected talks from submitted abstracts |
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| Gala Dinner |
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Session 6: Molecular mechanisms of innate recognition David Baulcombe - University of Cambridge, United Kingdom "Layers of virus resistance in plants" Kate Fitzgerald - University of Massachusetts, USA "title to be confirmed" Bruno Lemaitre - Polytechnical School of Lausanne, Switzerland "The Drosophila gut: a new paradigm for innate immunity?" Maya Saleh - McGill University, Canada "title to be confirmed" Selected talks from submitted abstracts |
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Keynote Session: Andrew McMichael - Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, United Kingdom "Acute HIV-1 infection and the vaccine problem" |
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| Final Remarks and poster prize - End of Conference |