Congress Program

  1. •JADCI sponsored special symposium
    “Recognition Mechanisms--Current Topics in Comparative Biology”
    (Monday pm; 6 symposists)

  2. •Cytokines and Chemokines (Monday pm - Tuesday am; 10 orals &12 posters)

  3. •Antimicrobial peptides and proteins (Tuesday pm-Wednesday am; 5 orals & 6 posters)

  4. •Antiviral immunity (Tuesday am-pm; 12 orals & 9 posters)

  5. •Ig and other antigen receptors (Tuesday am-pm; 12 orals & 7 posters)

  6. •Innate Cellular Immunity (Wednesday am-Thursday am; 7 orals & 5 posters)

  7. •Invertebrate Immune Response (Thursday pm-Friday pm; 19 orals & 22 posters)

  8. •Invertebrate Hemocytes (Thursday pm; 6 orals & 8 posters)

  9. •Lectins (Tuesday pm; 5 orals & 3 posters)

  10. •Complement and Complement-like factors (Tuesday pm-Wednesday am; 9 orals & 2 posters)

  11. •Pattern Recognition Molecules (Tuesday am-pm; 9 orals & 11 posters)

  12. •T cell, MHC, and Antigen-presentation (Friday am-pm; 12 orals & 9 posters)

  13. •Vaccine and Adjuvant (Wednesday am; 6 orals & 5 posters)

  14. •Vertebrate Adaptive Immune Response (Thursday pm-Friday am; 9 orals & 9 posters)

  15. •Vertebrate Innate and Homeostatic Response (Thursday am-pm; 10 orals & 9 posters)


** All the posters will be presented on Tuesday evening.

Sessions

Plenary Speakers

  1. •Shoichiro Kurata (Tohoku Univ., Sendai, Japan): New Toll gate for humoral and cellular immune responses in Drosophila

  2. •Zeev Pancer (University of Maryland, Institute of Biotechonlogy, USA): Lamprey variable lymphocyte receptors: from discovery to biomedical applications

  3. •Claudia Kemper (MRC Centre for Transplantation, King’s College London, UK): A novel complement and Notch system crosstalk is required for normal TH1 immunity in humans

  4. •Arturo Zychlinsky (Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Berlin, Germany): NETs – from infection to autoimmunity

  5. •Thomas Boehm (Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics, Freiburg, Germany): Thymopoietic tissues in vertebrates: Phylogenetic and ontogenetic aspects

Monday 9th: 11:00- Registration, 14:00 Plenary lecture, 15:30 Oral sessions,
18:30 Welcome reception


Tuesday 10th: 9:00 Plenary lecture, 10:30 Oral parallel sessions, 17:30 Poster session


Wednesday 11th: 8:45 Plenary lecture, 10:15 Oral parallel sessions, Free afternoon or Excursion for culture/nature of Fukuoka


Thursday 12th: 9:00 Plenary lecture, 10:30 Oral parallel sessions, 18:00 ISDCI Executive meeting


Friday 13th: 9:00 Plenary lecture, 10:30 Oral parallel sessions, 17:00 ISDCI general business meeting, 19:30 Banquet

Timetable of Events and Sessions (July 2 updated, Chairpersons info. added)
ISDCI 2012 Program At-a-Glance (June 30) (Chairpersons info.)
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