1st GK Symposium - Regulators of Adaptive Immunity

Official Program


Wednesday
27th September 2006

Speakers & GK Training Program Members only
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16.00 Welcome Address
Brigitte Biesinger & Bernhard Fleckenstein
Poster Session
Nikolaus-Fiebiger-Center for Molecular Medicine
16.15 PhD/MD Student Poster Presentation & Discussion with Speakers
19.00 Break
20.00 Speakers Dinner
 
 
Thursday
28th September 2006

Official Program
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08.00
Registration
08.30 Welcome Address
Hans-Martin Jäck
  Session 1
Chair: Sandra Franz & Martin Herrmann
08.55 Laudatio dedicated to Max D. Cooper
Jochen R. Kalden
09.00 Evolution of Adaptive Immunity
Max D. Cooper • Birmingham • USA
IZKF Visiting Professor
09.45 Signalling mechanism in the activation of adaptive immunity
Michael Reth • Freiburg • Germany
10.30 The Drosophila host defense: a paradigm for the study of innate immunity
Jules A. Hoffmann • Strasbourg • France
11.15 Coffee Break
  Session 2
Chair: Damian Maseda & Reinhard Voll
11.45 Phylogeny and ontogeny of thymic epithelium
Thomas Boehm • Freiburg • Germany
12.30 Dissecting thymus structure by nude blastocyst complementation
Hans-Reimer Rodewald • Ulm • Germany
13.15 Lunch
  Session 3
Chair: Susanne Bürgis & André Gessner
15.00 Humoral Memory
Andreas Radbruch • Berlin • Germany
15.45 A new look at memory B cells
Jean-Claude Weill • Paris • France
16.30 Coffee Break
  Session 4
Chair: Alexandros Theodoridis & Michael Stürzl
17.00 Mechanisms of Presentation and Cross-Presentation by MHC Class I Molecules
Peter Cresswell • New Haven • USA
17.45 Heat shock proteins as chaperones of antigenic peptides in antigen presentation and cross-priming
Promod Srivastava • Farmington • USA
18.30 The generation of antiviral T cell responses in immunoproteasome subunit beta 2i (MECL-1) deficient mice
Marcus Groettrup • Konstanz • Germany
19.15 Break
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Congress Party
Student League "Bubenreuther"
 
 
Friday
29th September 2006

Official Program
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  Session 5
Chair: Chawaree Chaipan & Thomas Winkler
09.45 Cell Death in the Immune System
Tak W. Mak • Toronto • Canada
10.30 Development and Selection of NKT Cells
H. Robson MacDonald • Epalinges • Switzerland
11.15 Coffee Break
  Session 6
Chair: Christiane Burkhardt & Thomas Stamminger
11.45 Control of tumor tolerance and immunity by the microenvironment
Günther J. Hämmerling • Heidelberg • Germany
12.30 The B lymphocyte CD19-CD21-CD22 regulatory loop in autoimmunity: Targets for immunotherapy
Thomas F. Tedder • Durham • USA
13.15 Lunch
  Session 7
Chair: Sabrina Haupt & Karin Metzner
14.15 The lymphocyte oncogenome
Matthias Wabl • San Francisco • USA
15.00 Regulating the Ig Kappa Locus: Allelic Exclusion and Receptor Editing
Marc Schlissel • Berkeley • USA
15.45 Farewell
Kai Herrmann & Nina Kaiser
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