Wednesday, June 18, 2008

5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Registration (Eisenhower Auditorium)

6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Reception (Eisenhower Auditorium)

Thursday, June 19, 2008

7:30 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.
Registration (for those not yet registered)
(First Floor Lobby, Life Sciences Building)

VWR International, Inc. Sponsored
Industrial Exhibits
10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
(Third Floor "Bridge", Connecting Life Sciences and Chemistry Buildings)

Session I
Modeling Immunity
8:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
(100 Life Sciences Building)

8:00 a.m. - 8:50 a.m.
KEYNOTE ADDRESS:A Multiscale Approach to Understanding Adaptive Immunity: From Molecules to Models to Movies
Ronald N. Germain (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)

8:50 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.
Towards a More Quantitative Immunology
Rob J. de Boer (Utrecht University)

9:30 a.m. - 10:10 a.m.
A Temporal Code to Generate Specificity in Inflammatory Signaling Alexander Hoffmann (University of California, San Diego)

10:10 a.m. - 10:40 a.m.
Morning Break

10:40 a.m. - 11:20 a.m.
Modeling Systems-Level Regulation of Immune Responses during a Bordetella Infection
Reka Albert (Pennsylvania State University)

11:20 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Rule-Based Modeling of Signal Transduction Networks
James R. Faeder (University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine)

12:00 noon - 1:30 p.m.
Lunch Break

Session II
Innate Immune Cells
1:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
(100 Life Sciences Building)

1:30 p.m. - 2:20 p.m.
KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Tumor Surveillance by the Innate Immune System: NKG2D and Its Ligands
David H. Raulet (University of California, Berkeley)

2:20 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
The Role of CD1 in T Cell Development and Immunity
Chyung-Ru Wang (Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine)

3:00 p.m. - 3:40 p.m.
Severing the Gordian Knot: Are Glycolipids the Solution for Effective Vaccines Against Malaria and HIV?
Moriya Tsuji (Rockefeller University)

3:40 p.m. - 4:10 p.m.
Afternoon Break

4:10 p.m. - 4:50 p.m.
Unique Properties of CD4T Cells Selected by HMC Expressing Thymocytes
Cheong-Hee Chang (University of Michigan)

4:50 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Innate Memory T Cells
Avery August (Pennsylvania State University)

5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Program Break

Keynote Address
Complex Genetic Control of Susceptibility to Malaria:
Lessons from the Mouse
Philippe Gros, Ph.D.
7:30 - 8:45 p.m.
(100 Life Sciences Building)

Friday, June 20, 2008

Session III
Host Pathogen Interactions
8:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
(100 Life Sciences Building)

8:00 a.m. - 8:50 a.m.
SESSION KEYNOTE: TBA
Michel Desjardins (University of Montreal)

8:50 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.
Distinct Monocyte Populations are Essential to Prevent Systemic Dissemination of Virus Chris C. Norbury (Pennsylvania State University)

9:30 a.m. - 10:10 a.m.
Plasmacytoid Dendritic Cells in Host Defense Against Viruses

Patricia Fitzgerald-Bocarsly (UMDNJ, New Jersey Medical School)  

10:10 a.m. - 10:40 a.m.
Morning Break

10:40 a.m. - 11:20 a.m.
The Latent Gamma-Herpesviruses: Lessons from the Mouse

Marcia A. Blackman (Trudeau Institute)

 11:20 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Multifunctional Nature of Interferon Antagonists of Small RNA Viruses

Richard E. Randall (University of St. Andrews)

12:00 noon - 1:30 p.m.
Lunch Break

Oral Platform Presentations
1:30 - 5:00 p.m.
(100 Life Sciences Building)

5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Program Break

Poster Presentations
and Concurrent Reception
7:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.
(Third Floor "Bridge" Connecting Life Sciences and Chemistry Buildings)

Saturday, June 21, 2008

Session IV
Inflammation and Disease
8:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
(100 Life Sciences Building)

8:00 a.m. - 8:50 a.m
KEYNOTE ADDRESS: A Systems Approach with Inflammatory Exudates Reveals a Novel Genus of Anti-Inflammatory-Pro-Resolving Mediators

Charles N. Serhan (Harvard University)

8:50 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.
Toll-like Receptors and Atherosclerosis

Linda K. Curtiss (The Scripps Research Institute)

9:30 a.m. - 10:10 a.m.
Neutrophil Recruitment to the Lung and Elsewhere

Klaus Ley (La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology) 

10:10 a.m. - 10:40 a.m.
Morning Break

10:40 a.m. - 11:20 a.m.
Inflammatory Monocyte Trafficking In Vivo

Janet Liversidge (University of Aberdeen) 

11:20 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Targeting Microglial Activation in Diabetic Retinopathy

Steven F. Abcouwer (Pennsylvania State University)

Symposium Closing Remarks
(100 Life Sciences Building)
12:00 p.m.

Picnic
(Mall Between Life Sciences and Chemistry Buildings)
12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.

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