Congress Program
Congress Program
•JADCI sponsored special symposium
“Recognition Mechanisms--Current Topics in Comparative Biology”
(Monday pm; 6 symposists)
•Cytokines and Chemokines (Monday pm - Tuesday am; 10 orals &12 posters)
•Antimicrobial peptides and proteins (Tuesday pm-Wednesday am; 5 orals & 6 posters)
•Antiviral immunity (Tuesday am-pm; 12 orals & 9 posters)
•Ig and other antigen receptors (Tuesday am-pm; 12 orals & 7 posters)
•Innate Cellular Immunity (Wednesday am-Thursday am; 7 orals & 5 posters)
•Invertebrate Immune Response (Thursday pm-Friday pm; 19 orals & 22 posters)
•Invertebrate Hemocytes (Thursday pm; 6 orals & 8 posters)
•Lectins (Tuesday pm; 5 orals & 3 posters)
•Complement and Complement-like factors (Tuesday pm-Wednesday am; 9 orals & 2 posters)
•Pattern Recognition Molecules (Tuesday am-pm; 9 orals & 11 posters)
•T cell, MHC, and Antigen-presentation (Friday am-pm; 12 orals & 9 posters)
•Vaccine and Adjuvant (Wednesday am; 6 orals & 5 posters)
•Vertebrate Adaptive Immune Response (Thursday pm-Friday am; 9 orals & 9 posters)
•Vertebrate Innate and Homeostatic Response (Thursday am-pm; 10 orals & 9 posters)
** All the posters will be presented on Tuesday evening.
Sessions
Plenary Speakers
•Shoichiro Kurata (Tohoku Univ., Sendai, Japan): New Toll gate for humoral and cellular immune responses in Drosophila
•Zeev Pancer (University of Maryland, Institute of Biotechonlogy, USA): Lamprey variable lymphocyte receptors: from discovery to biomedical applications
•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
•Arturo Zychlinsky (Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Berlin, Germany): NETs – from infection to autoimmunity
•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
Final Version - Chairpersons info. added.