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Scientific programme


THURSDAY MAY 31, 2012

 

7:30 am
 Registration of participants
   
8:30 am - 10:00 am

Session 1: Danger and Death in Neurons
 

8:30am. David C. Rubinsztein (University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK)
"Autophagy and neurodegeneration."

9:00 am. Klas Blomgren (Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden)
"Neural stem cell and functional recovery after brain injury - "Dead cells are good for you"."

9:30 am. Robert M. Friedlander (Pittsburgh University, PA, USA)
"Deficient mitochondrial protein import and neuronal death in Huntington’s disease."
   
10 :00 am- 10 :30 am   Coffee-break
   
10:30 am - 12:30 pm Session 2: Cellular Stress Integration and Inflammation
 


10:30 am. Junyin Yuan (Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA)
"Programmed Cell Death: from Apoptosis to Necroptosis."

11:00 am. Garabet Yeretssian* (Mont Sinai School of Medicine, New York, USA)
“Novel function of the proapoptotic protein BID in NOD-mediated inflammation and immunity.”

11:15 am. Peter Vandenabeele (Ghent University, Belgium)
"In vitro and in vivo regulation of regulated necrosis induced by TNF."

11:45 am. Jean-Philippe Girard* (Université de Toulouse, IPBS-CNRS, France)
 “IL-33: a novel alarmin with critical roles in immunity and inflammation.”

12:00 pm. John Oppenheim (NCI, Frederick, MD, USA)
"Alarmins activate immune responses by inducing dendritic cell chemotaxis and maturation."

 

 
 
 12:30 pm- 2:00 pm    Lunch and Poster session


 
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm Session 3: Recognition of Dying and Stressed Cells
 
2:00 pm. Kodi Ravichandran (University of Virginia, Charlotteville, VA, USA)
“Clearance of dying cells and airway inflammation.”

2:30 pm. Caetano Reis e Sousa (Cancer Research UK, London, UK)
"Adaptive immunity to dead cell-associated antigens."

3:00 pm. Antony Rosen (John Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA)
"Antigen targets in systemic autoimmune diseases: the conundrum of specificity."

3:30 pm. Francesco di Virgilio (University of Ferrara, Italy)
"Cellular Stress Integration and Inflammation."
   
  4:00 pm- 4:30 pm    Coffee-break
   
 4:30 pm -  6:30 pm  Session 4: Immune Recognition of Death And Danger
   
4:30 pm. Ulrich von Andrian (Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA)
Title to be announced

5:00 pm. Santiago Zelanay* (Cancer Research UK, London)
“The dendritic cell receptor DNGR-1 controls endocytic handling of necrotic cell antigens to favor cross-priming of CTLs in virus-infected mice.”

5:15 pm. Ron Germain (NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA)
"Lipids and integrins control neutrophil swarming at sites of sterile cell damage In Vivo."

5:45 pm. Yann Leverrier* (INSERM U851, Lyon, France)
“TLR ligands and inflammatory Cytokine Promote Antigen Cross-presentation by pre-CD8α+ Dendritic Cells.”

6:00 pm. Marie-Lise Gougeon(Institut Pasteur, Paris, France)
“Viral escape from immunity and HIV reservoirs.”
 7:15 pm
 Departure for the dinner cruise on the Seine

 
* Selected speaker

 
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