EMDS 2010

Systems Biology of Macrophages and Dendrict Cells in Health and Disease. 6-8 September 2010, Edinburgh University.

Schedule

Each session will comprise 3 invited talks allocated 30 minutes (25 minutes plus questions) and 3 talks selected from abstracts. These talks will be strictly limited to 10 minutes/10 slides including questions, and speakers will be expected to contribute to the poster session.

Monday 6th September 2010 
Registration and coffee - 4.00 pm  
Registration and plenary session 1: 4.30 - 6.30 Systems Biology of Macrophages and DC
Chair: David Hume
 4.30 - 5.00 A systems approach to dissecting immunity
Alan Aderem, USA
 5.00 - 5.30

The epigenome and the transcriptional control of innate immunity and inflammation
Giacchimo Natoli, Italy

 5.30 - 6.00

S100A8 – an oxident scavenger and immune modulator in inflammation 
Carolyn Geczy, Australia

 6.00 - 6.30 TLR activiation or translational regulation during LPS stimulation of dendritic dells
Philippe Pierre, France
 6.30 - 8.00  Welcome Reception
   
Tuesday 7th September 2010 
Session 2: 8.30 - 10.30 Macrophages and DC in Cancer
Chair: Loems Ziegler-Heitbrock
 8.30 - 9.00 Genetic analysis of macrophage function in breast tumor metastasis: Ets moves into the neighborhood
Michael Ostrowski, USA
 9.00 - 9.30 Network analysis of the transcriptome of tumour-associated macrophages
Tom Freeman, UK
 9.30 - 10.00 Engineering macrophages to deliver an oncolytic adenovirus to prostate tumours
Munita Mutthana, UK
10.00 - 10.10 Intratumoral monocyte differentiation to M1-like versus M2-like tumor-associated macrophage subsets correlates with tumor malignancy
Damya Laoui, Belgium
10.10 - 10.20 Role of TIE2 receptor in the pro-angiogenic activity of Tie2-expressing macrophages
Ferdinando Pucci, Italy
10.20 - 10.30 c-Myc triggers macrophage alternative activation and controls macrophage activity and survival in tumors
Oscar Pello, Italy
Session 3: 11.00 - 1.00 Macrophages and DC in Inflammation
Chair: John Savill/Chris Gregory
 11.00 - 11.30 Pathogenesis of inflammatory bowel disease - new insights from gene discovery
Jack Satsangi, UK
 11.30 - 12.00 Re-educating macrophages in infection and cancer by targeting NF-kappaB
Toby Lawrence, France
 12.00 - 12.30 Regulation of mononuclear phagocyte function by corticosteroids
Ian Dransfield, UK
12.30 - 12.40 Enhanced allergic contact dermatitis in Mrp14
-/- mice is associated with an altered Th17 response

Beatrix Petersen, Germany
12.40 - 12.50 Indentification of STAT6 as a required licensing factor for PPARg-regulated gene expression in macrophages and dendritic cells
Zsuzsanna S Nagy, Hungary
12.50 - 13.00 Hematopoietic deficiency of CCR2 influence macrophage and regulatory T cell populations in adipose tissue resulting in improvements in systemic insulin sensitivity
Dario A Gutierrez, USA
Session 4: 2.00 - 4.00 Infections with bacteria and Viruses (Joint session with IBVI Group)
Chair: Donald Davidson, UK
 2.00 - 2.30

NLRs in Innate Immunity to Influenza Virus Thirumala-Devi Kanneganti, USA

 2.30 - 3.00 Forward genetic dissection of early innate responses to pathogens in mice: IRF8 and beyond
Philippe Gros, Canada
 3.00 - 3.30 Immune recognition of the fungal cell wall by myeloid cells: the taste of a fungus
Neil Gow, UK
3.30 - 3.40 Type I interferon production induced by Streptococcus pyogenes-derived nucleic acids is required for host protection.
Pavel Kovarik, Austria
3.40 - 3.50 Macrophage innate immune responses to mycobacterium tuberculosis are modulated by HIV-1 infection
Gillian S Tomlinson, UK
3.50 - 4.00 Influenza infection causes an inhibition of the immune response in human monocytes: the role of the Rar-related orphan receptor alpha
Judith Friesenhagen, Germany
4.00 - 6.30  Poster Session
6.30 - 7.30  EMDS Members' Assembly
7.30 - 11.30  Dinner at the Hub
   
Wednesday 8th September 2010 
Session 5: 8.30 - 10.30 Systems Biology of Macrophages and DC II
Chair: Tom Freeman
 8.30 - 9.00 Integrated ChIP-Seq and transcriptome analysis of human macrophage differentiation
Michael Rehli, Germany
 9.00 - 9.30 Assessing combitorial transcriptional regulation in mouse and man
Timothy Ravasi, Saudi Arabia
 9.30 - 10.00 Facilitating Systems-level Analyses of the Innate Immune Response to Human and Animal Pathogens
David Lynn, Eire
10.00 - 10.10 Kupffer cell heterogeneity and dynamics
Lynette Beattie, UK
10.10 - 10.20 Meta-analysis of lineage-specific gene expression signatures in mouse leukocyte populations
Neil Mabbott, UK
 10.20 - 10.30 The phosphoproteome of toll-like receptor (TLR)-Activated Macrophages
Roland Lang, Germany
Session 6: 11.00 - 1.00 Comparative Biology of Macrophages and DC
Chair: Liz Glass
 11.00 - 11.30 Antigen presentation in the absence of lymph nodes - how does the chicken do it?
Pete Kaiser, UK
 11.30 - 12.00

A comparative analysis of the porcine response to Salmonella typhimurium and its endotoxin
Chris Tuggle, USA

 12.00 - 12.30 The mouse as a model for innate immunity: models aren’t perfect
Matt Sweet, Australia
12.30 - 12.40 Further characterisation of chicken bone marrow-derived dendritic cells
Zhiguang Wu, UK
12.40 - 12.50 Characterisation of the LPS response of pig macrophages, inter-animal variation and relevance to humans
Ronan Kapetanovic, UK
12.50 - 1.00 Interaction of classical swine fever virus with porcine blood dendritic cells
Simon P Graham, UK
Session 7: 1.30 - 3.00 (plenaries only) Differentiation and Development in Macrophages and DC
 1.30 - 2.00 Building marcrophage-and B cell-specific enchancers
Chris Glass
 2.00 - 2.30 Monocyte subpopulations: basic and clinical aspects
Loems Ziegler-Heitbrock
 2.30 - 3.00 Human blood monocytes: functions and (lack of) relationship with tissue DC/macrophages
Frederic Geissmann, UK

 

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