17th Meeting of the European Macrophage and Dendritic Cell Society 2003
Program

The 17th European Macrophage and Dendritic Cell Society Meeting was held at the University of Leicester Oadby Campus, Leicester, U.K. on 28-30 August 2003. You can contact the Organising Committee at: bwk2@le.ac.uk

Thursday 28th August 2003

14:00	Registration. Tea. Foyer, Gilbert Murray Conference Centre
14:00	EMDS Council Meeting Senior Common Room, Gilbert Murray Conference Centre

16:00	Welcoming addresses Main Hall, Gilbert Murray Conference Centre Ian Lauder Dean, Leicester Warwick Medical Schools, Leicester, UK Löms Ziegler-Heitbrock Department of Infection, Immunity & Inflammation, University of Leicester, UK

	Session I Main Hall, Gilbert Murray Conference Centre Chair: Paul Crocker University of Dundee, Scotland, UK
16:15	Paul Crocker University of Dundee, Scotland, UK Siglecs as adhesive and inhibitory signalling molecules on myeloid cells
16:45	Johannes Stöckl Institute for Immunology, University of Vienna, Austria Role of B7 and Siglec molecules in dendritic cells
17:15	Miguel López-Botet Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain Characterization of novel putative inhibitory and activating molecules of the Ig-superfamily expressed by myeloid cells
17:30	Xin-Sheng Ju Max-Delbrück-Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany Expression of ILT receptors in human dendritic cells and their regulation following activation
17:45	Gary Brooke Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, Universityof Oxford, UK Interactions of cytoplasmic region of CD200R
18:00	Nobuo Kanazawa Department of Dermatology, University of Kyoto, Japan DCIR and DCAR: antigen presenting cells-expressing lectin-type paired immunoreceptors

	Opening Reception New Walk Museum, 53 New Walk, Leicester
19:30	Coaches depart Gilbert Murray Conference Centre
20:00	Opening addresses The Right Worshipful the Lord Mayor of Leicester, Councillor Ramnik Kavia Professor Bill Brammar, Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the University of Leicester
	Cold buffet
22:30	Close

Friday 29th August 2003

	Session II Main Hall, Gilbert Murray Conference Centre Chair: Diethard Gemsa Institute of Immunology, Phillips University of Marburg, Germany
08:30	Sebastian Wesselborg University of Tübingen, Germany Role of recruitment- and "eat-me"-signals in the clearance of apoptotic cells
09:00	Jinhua Lu National University of Singapore, Singapore Subcellular targeting of toll-like receptors and regulation of TLR4 subcellular localization and response to LPS by its C-terminus.
09:15	Subhankar Mukhopadhyay Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford, UK Differential role of Scavenger Receptor-A and the Toll-Like Receptor-4 in innate and immune activation phenotype of murine macrophages
09:30	Lucy Truman MRC Centre for Inflammation Research, University of Edinburgh, UK Chemotaxis of mononuclear phagocytes towards apoptotic Burkitt’s lymphoma cells

10:00	Coffee and Posters

	Session III Main Hall, Gilbert Murray Conference Centre Chair: Siamon Gordon Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford, UK
10:30	Shizuo Akira Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University, Japan Analysis of TLRs by genetic knock-out
11:15	David Underhill Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle, WA, USA Co-operation of Toll-like receptors
11:45	Marion Jurk Coley Pharmaceutical GmbH, Langenfeld, Germany C-class ODN: characterisation of three major CpG ODN classes with distinct immunostimulatory profiles
12:00	Fabio Re Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard University, Boston, USA Differential activation of dendritic cells by agonists of TLR2, TLR3, TLR4, TLR5, TLR7 and TLR8
12:15	Mohamad Mohty Institut Paoli-Calmettes, Marseille, France Interferon-a skews monocyte differentiation into TLR-7-expressing dendritic cells with potent functional activities

12:30

Lunch
Villiers Hall, Manor Road, Leicester

	Session IV Main Hall, Gilbert Murray Conference Centre Chair: Javier Domínguez INIA, Madrid, Spain
13:30	Frederic Geissmann Skirball Institute for Biomolecular Medicine, NYU School of Medicine, NY, USA Blood monocytes consist of two principal subsets with distinct migration properties in vivo
14:00	Jürgen Lohmeyer Faculty of Medicine, Justus Leibig University of Giessen, Germany Role of CCL2 in the recruitment of monocytes to the lung
14:30	Holger Garn Institute of Immunology, Philipps University of Marburg, Germany Differential cytokine expression in alveolar macrophage subpopulations in a rat model of chronic lung inflammation
14:45	Petronela Ancuta Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA Preferential arrest and migration of CD16+ monocytes in response to fractalkine
15:00	Farshid Dayyani Medizinische Klinik Innenstadt der LMU, Munich, Germany CD14+CD16+ monocytes in autologous peripheral blood stem cell transplantation (APBSCT)

15:15	Poster session. Tea. Seminar room/Marquee/Livingstone Room, Gilbert Murray Conference Centre

	Session V Main Hall, Gilbert Murray Conference Centre Chair: Walter Knapp University of Vienna, Austria
16:45	Teunis Geijtenbeek Free University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Expression and function of DC-SIGN in DC and Macrophages
17:15	Alexander Steinkasserer Experimental Dermatology Unit, University of Erlangen, Germany Role of CD83 in DC
17:45	Peter Jähn Miltenyi Biotec, Bergisch Gladbach, Germany Targeting of antigen to plasmacytoid dendritic cells via the Type II C-type lectin BDCA-2
18:00	EMDS Assembly Chair: Christian Bogdan Department of Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, University of Freiburg, Germany

	Social Evening National Space Centre, Exploration Drive, Leicester
19:00	Coaches depart Gilbert Murray Conference Centre
19:30	Reception and chance to view galleries
20:00	Hot buffet and cash bar
22:30	Close

Saturday 30th August 2003

	Session VI Main Hall, Gilbert Murray Conference Centre Chair: Michael Rehli Uniklinik Regensburg, Germany
08:30	David Hume Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland, Australia Transcriptional regulation of the M-CSF-receptor gene
09:00	Antonio Celada University of Barcelona, Spain MKP-1 phosphatase as a key regulator of proliferation versus activation of macrophages
09:15	Howard Barton University of Southampton, UK Analysis of the murine Nramp1 promoter reveals cell-specific control by Sp1
09:30	Simon Jackson University of Wales College of Medicine, Cardiff, UK Lysophosphatidylcholine acyltransferase is a key enzyme in the response of monocytes to liposaccharides
09:45	Nikki Horwood Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Imperial College, London, UK Bruton’s tyrosine kinase potentiates Tumour Necrosis Factor production via mRNA stabilization
10:00	Bernard Burke Department of Infection, Immunity & Inflammation, University of Leicester, UK Hypoxia induces MMP-7 gene expression in human macrophages

10:15	Coffee and Posters

	Session VII Main Hall, Gilbert Murray Conference Centre Chair: Caetano Reis e Sousa Cancer Research UK, London, UK
10:45	Ken Shortman Walter & Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Victoria, Australia Mouse and human DC precursors
11:15	Bart Lambrecht Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands Role of DC in asthma: basic and clinical aspects
11:45	Monidipa Ghosh Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Jadavpur, Kolkata, India Dendritic cell: a successful vaccine candidate for murine visceral leishmaniasis as well as a sure curative measure for this intracellular infection
12:00	Manfred Lutz Department of Dermatology, University of Erlangen, Germany Semi-mature dendritic cells induce tolerance in an EAE model through ICOS-L

12:30

Lunch
Villiers Hall, Manor Road, Leicester

13:30

Guided walk (approximately 30 minutes)
'Highlights of Harold Martin Botanic Garden'
Meeting point: the terrace at the front of Beaumont Hall, accessed from Stoughton Drive South.
The Garden is open every day 10:00-16:00.

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17th Meeting of the European Macrophage and Dendritic Cell Society 2003 Program

17th Meeting of the European Macrophage and Dendritic Cell Society 2003
Program