Immunology Symposium Basel (ISB) 2011
on
“Immune Responses and Autoimmunity”
Date: Thursday-Friday, 9th -10th June, 2011
Venue: Anatomie Hörsal 230, Institute of Anatomy, University of Basel, Pestalozzistrasse 20, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland
Organization: ISPI e.V. (International Senior Professional Institute)
Organizers: Una Chen (Giessen, Germany); Antonius Rolink (Basel, Switzerland); Olli Lassila (Turku, Finland); Sabine Mai (Winnipeg, Canada); Hajime Karasuyama (Tokyo, Japan); and Tilman Borggrefe (Freiburg, Germany)
Speakers & Chairpersons: (ABC family order): Claudia Berek (Berlin, Germany); Bjarne Bogen (Oslo, Norway); Tilman Borggrefe (Freiburg, Germany); Una Chen (Giessen, Germany); Martin Flajnik (Maryland, USA); Donald Gerson (Ontario, Canada); Ulla Günthert (Basel, Switzerland); Rolf Jessberger (Dresden, Germany); Harald Kropshofer (Basel, Switzerland); Antonio Lanzavecchia (Bellinzona, Switzerland); Marinus Lamers (Freiburg, Germany); Olli Lassila (Turku, Finland); Dieter Naeher (Basel, Switzerland); Hans-George Rammensee (Tübingen, Germany); Antonius Rolink (Basel, Switzerland); Mariolina Salio (Oxford, UK); Federica Sallusto (Bellinzona, Switzerland ); Nobuo Sakaguchi (Kumamoto, Japan); Charles Sidman (Bar Harbor, USA); Alan Tyndall (Basel, Switzerland); Dominic van Essen (Freiburg, Germany); Harald von Boehmer (Boston, USA); Matthias Wabl (San Francisco, USA); Andreas Ziegler (Berlin, Germany) and more (Gennaro De Libero* (Basel, Switzerland); Lucia Mori* (Basel, Switzerland); Jean Pieters* (Basel, Switzerland); Klaus Rajewsky* (Boston, USA); Rolf Zinkernagel* (Zürich, Switzerland) )
Local General Support: Hans-Joachim Wallny, Dieter Naeher, Randy Baron, Patricia Riegert, Regina Gerard, and more
CME Credits: Alan Tyndall and Colleageu (Basel, Switzerland)
Webpage: www.ispiev.org (Symposium 2011)
Registration: Wednesday, 8th June 2011, 12:00 –16:00 at Institue of Anatomy, University of Basel, Pestalozzistrasse 20, CH-4056 Basel
Dinner for early birds: Wednesday, 8th June 2011, at Restaurant Pizzeria Resslirytti, Theodorsgraben 42, beim Wettsteinplatz, Basel
Registration: Thursday, 9th June, 2011, 8:00-on, at Anatomie Institut, University of Basel, Pestalozzistrasse 20, CH-4056 Basel
Opening ceremony:
Date: Thursday, 9th June, 2011
9:00-9:30
Scientific program:
Date: Thursday, 9th June, 2011 am
9:30-12:30
Section A: Biology of the immune system
Chairperson: Marinus Lamers, Max Planck Institute for Immunobiology, Freiburg, Germany
9:30-10:00
TBA (Expansion of peripheral naturally occurring T regulatory cells by Fms-like typrosine kinase 3 ligand treatment)
Antonius Rolink, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
10:00-10:30
iNKT cells at the interface between innate and adaptive immunity
Mariolina Salio, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK
10:30-11:00
Coffee break
11:00-11:30
Transcriptional regulation of plasma cell differentiation
Olli Lassila, University of Turku, Turku, Finland
11:30-11:55
RNA metabolism and Antibody Affinity maturation
Nobuo Sakaguchi, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto, Japan
Lunch break 11:55-13:00
Meet the Experts lunch by junior investigators and students
Date: Thursday 9th June 2011, pm
13:00-16:30
Continue Section A: Biology of the immune system
&
Section B: Beyond immune system
Chairperson: Olli Lassila, University of Turku, Turku, Finland
13:00-13:30
Biophysical studies of MHC class I molecules
Andreas Ziegler, Charite, Berlin, Germany
13:30-14:00
Inferring the primordial MHC and antigen receptor loci
Martin Flajnik, University of Maryland, Baltimore, USA
14:00-14:30
Moving targets: Phenotypic instability of a tet-off-SV40 Tag immortalized mouse ectodermal progenitor cell line
Una Chen, ISPI e.V. Giessen, Germany
14:30-15:00
Coffee break
15:00-15:30
Notch signaling controlled by histone methylation
Tilman Borggrefe, Max-Planck-Institute of Immunobiology & Epigenetics, Freiburg, Germany
15:30-16:00
Complex Systems - A Personal Journey from Research to Application
Charles Sidman, Bar Harbor, USA
16:00-16:30
Last minute speakers
17:00- 23:00 Social Program: Basel Tourist office announcement, http://www.basel.com/en/event_calendar/index.cfm#results
Please make your own reservation for concert or other social program in advance.
Dinner: Thursday, 9th June, 2011, of your own choice
Late evening drink at Kunsthalle, 21:00 onward
Date: Friday, 10th June, 2011, am
9:00-12:00
Section C: Immune response to self and to invader:
Autoimmune diseases:
Chairperson: Antonio Lanzavecchia, Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Bellinzona, Switzerland
9:00-9:45
Prevention of type 1 diabetes by Treg vaccination with an insulin mimetope
Harald von Boehmer, Harvard University, Boston, USA
9:45-10:05
Retroelements in the etiology of autoimmune disease
Matthias Wabl, University of California at San Francisco, California, USA
10:05-10:25
Human blood monocytes: disguised modulators of IL-17+ T cell responses
Elisabetta Padovan, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência (IGC), Oeiras, Portugal
10:25-10:55
Coffee Break
10:55-11:15
Deletion of CD44 variant isoforms limits EAE by control of CD4hi memory T cells
Ulla Günthert, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
11:15-12:00
Adult stem cells in the treatment of autoimmune disease
Alan Tyndall, Rheumatology, University Hospital & Felix-Platter Spital, Basel, Switzerland
12:00-13:00
Lunch break
Meet the Experts lunch by junior investigators and students
Date: Friday, 10th June 2011, pm
13:00-17:30
Cancer
Chairperson: Federica Sallusto, Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Bellinzona, Switzerland
13:00-13:30
Cancer immunosurveillance by CD4+ T cells
Bjarne Bogen, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
13:30-13:55
The plasma cell survival niche
Claudia Berek, DRFZ, Berlin, Germany
13:55-14:20
A new pathway to control IgE synthesis
Rolf Jessberger, Dresden, Germany
14:20-14:50
Coffee break
Section D: Infection, Inflammation and Immunity:
Chairperson: Hans-George Rammensee**, Tübingen, Germany;
Co-Chairperson: Lucia Mori*, University of Basel, Switzerland
14:50-15:20
Chromatin- dependent regulation of inflammatory gene expression
Dominic van Essen, Max Planck Institute for Immunobiology, Freiburg, Germany
15:20-16:05
Immunology and the safety of modern biotherapeutics
Harald Kropshofer, Hoffmann-La Roche AG, Basel, Switzerland
16:05-16:20
Turning Immunology into Pharmaceuticals
Donald Gerson, PnuVax, Inc, Ontario, Canada
16:20-16:30
Preparing for Public Education
16:30-17:30
Public Education on “Immunity and diseases”: (will be announced in local newspapers)
by speakers and participants of the symposium. The program will be announced locally.
END of scientific section
Bii-at-40 celebration program including:
Dinner: Friday, 10th June, 2011, 19:00 (Restaurant Löwenzorn, www.ispiev.org under BII at 40)
Further information:
ispiev@gmx.de, www.ispiev.org (Symposium 2011)
Registration Form Immunology Symposium Basel (ISB) 2011
for “Immune Responses and Autoimmunity“ www.ispiev.org
can be viewed and downloaded under "Registration ISB 2011"
released: 19.12.2010, updated, 11.01.2011, 10.02.2011, 05.05.2011, 09.05.2011, 17.05.2011, 01.06.2011, 03.06.2011
Directions to Institute of Anatomy at Pestalozzistrasse:
- From EuroAirport:
Take bus no. 50 to SBB railwaystation, riding time is 19 min, then take bus no. 30 in direction
Badischer Bahnhof, leave at station "Frauenspital".
- From Badischer Bahnhof:
Take bus no. 30 and leave at station "Frauenspital".
-From SBB:
Take the bus no. 30 and leave at station "Frauenspital".