(Last updated: 2009/09/22)
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TUESDAY 3rd
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Registration |
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Opening ceremony: Flavio Salazar President of ALAI |
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Jorge Kalil (Brasil)
IUIS: " New approaches for developing vaccines" |
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Inaugural
Conference: Ralph Steinman (USA) The Rockefeller University: "Manipulating Your Dendritic Cells: A
Key to Better Vaccines" |
WELCOME COCKTAIL |
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WEDNESDAY 4th
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Plenary Session 1:
Gabriel Rabinovich (Argentina) IBYME/CONICET: "Galectin-glycan
interactions in the regulation of adaptive immune responses: Lessons from
experimental models in vivo" |
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Plenary Session
2: Bill Jacobs, AECOM, NY,
(USA): "Title pending" |
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COFFEE BREAKE |
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Symposium 1: Parasite
Immunology (Dr. Ferreira) |
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Arturo Ferreira
(Chile) University of Chile: "Some emerging Mechanisms in the Host/intracellular
Parasite Relationships CRT y TC" |
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Miguel Stadecker
(USA) Tuffts University Boston: "The induction and regulation of the pathogenic Th17
response in infection with schistosome helminths" |
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Manoel Barral Netto (Brazil) Centro de Pesquisas Gonçalo Moniz, Fundação
Oswaldo Cruz (FIOCRUZ): "The inmune response in Lesmaniasis" |
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Symposium 2: Ag
Presentation |
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Ana-Maria
Lennon-Duménil (France) Institus Curie's Research Center: "Antigen presentation by B lymphocytes:
how receptor signaling directs membrane trafficking". |
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Ariadna
Mendoza-Naranjo (UK) UCL: "The role of Gap Junctions in the immune system
activation" |
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Ignacio Anegon
(France) INSERM: "Promises and obstacles for the
blockade of CD40-CD40L interactions in allotransplantation". |
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Symposium 3: Mucosal immunology (SAI) (Dr. Chirdo) |
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Allan Mowat (UK)
University of Glasgow: “Dendritic
cells and macrophages in intestinal homeostasis and inflammation" |
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Stephen McSorley
(UK) University of Glasgow : " Anti microbe immunology" . |
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Alejandro
Chabalgoity (Uruguay) Universidad de la República: "Dynamics of protective immune
responses in the lungs: Th17 and more". |
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LUNCH |
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Plenary Session 3:
Tom MacDonald (UK) Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry: "Interleukin-21: a critical regulator
of the balance between effector and regulatory T-cell responses in the
gut". |
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Plenary Session 4:
Alexis Kalergis (Chile) PUC: "Modulating
dendritic cell-T cell interactions to promote pathogen immunity and reduce
Autoimmunity” |
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COFFEE BREAKE |
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Workshop 1: New
tools for Immune Intervention (Dr. Nervi) |
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Bruno Nervi (Chile)
PUC: "Chemosensitization
of AML following mobilization by the CXCR4 antagonist AMD3100". |
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Jorge Gavilondo
(Cuba) CIGB: "Modified human VEGF as
anti-angiogenic vaccine and a tool for discovery of new neutralizing
epitopes". |
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Short presentation
(3) |
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Workshop 2: Models for Immune-diagnostics and
Immune-regulation in Autoimmune Diseases (Dr. José Aguilar) |
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Arturo Pareja (Peru) President Peruvian
society of Immunology (SPI): "Use of BABs as screening diagnosis in Multiple
Sclerosis" |
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José L. Aguilar (Peru). Universidad Peruana
Cayetano Heredia (UPCH). Vice-President of ALAI: "Molecular Mechanisms of
Immune-regulation by Uncaria tomentosa, a Peruvian natural product" |
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Short presentation
(3) |
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Workshop 3: Anti Viral
Immune Response |
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Matteo Iannacone
(Italy) Harvard Medical School: "I vivo
imaging of antiviral immune responses" |
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Marcelo López-Lastra
( Chile) PUC: "Hepatitis
C virus detection in blood of chronical infected patients" |
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Short Presentation: Pablo
González (Chile) PUC: "Suppression of Immunological Synapse
function by RSV". |
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POSTERS |
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THURSDAY 5th |
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Plenary Session
5: Jamey Marth (USA) Howard Hughes
Medical Institute:
"Impact of N-glycan branching in the initiation of inflammatory and
autoimmune responses". |
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Plenary Session 6:
Laurie Glimcher (USA) Harvard School of Public Heath: "The endoplasmic reticulum stress in immunity and
autoimmunity". |
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COFFEE BREAKE |
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Symposium 4:
Pathogen Immunity (Dr. Susan Bueno) |
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Guillermo
Giambartolomei (Argentina) Faculty of
Medicine UBA: "Brucella and immunity" |
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Susan Bueno (Chile)
PUC: "Salmonella interference with host
immunity" |
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Fidel Zavala (USA)
Johns Hopkins University: “ Evolution of functional properties of memory CD8+ T-cells ” |
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Symposium 5: Homing
(Dr. Rosemblatt) |
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Mario Rosemblatt
(Chile) UNAB: "Deciding
on a migration route after antigen encounter" |
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Rodrigo Mora (USA)
Harvard Medical School: “Dendritic cell education in the gastrointestinal mucosa: role
of retinoic acid and pathogen-associated signals” |
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Oliver Pabst
(Germany) Institut für Immunologie Medizinische Hochschule Hannover Hannover:
“Beyond the
induction phase: A novel three step model of Oral tolerance" |
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Symposium 6:
Autoimmunity (Dr. Aguillón) |
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Catharien M.U.
Hilkens (UK) Institute of Cellular Medicine, Newcastle University Medical
School: "Developing a tolerogenic cellular
therapy for rheumatoid arthritis" |
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Juan Carlos Aguillon
(Chile) Universidad de Chile: "Modulation of collagen-induced murine arthritis with by
dendritic cells". |
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Maria Cristina
Cuturi (France) INSERM, Nantes: "Tolerogenic dendritic cells in organ
transplantation" |
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LUNCH |
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Plenary
Session 7: Burkhard Becher
(Switzerland) Zürich University: "Where B
cells give up, T cells show resourcefulness : On autoimmunity, evolution and
wrong interpretations!" |
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Plenary Session 8 :
Pending |
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COFFEE BREAKE |
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Workshop 4:
Transplantation Tolerance (Dr. Kalergis) |
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Juan Alberto
Fierro (Chile) Clinica Las Condes: "Phagosomes and Regulatory T Cells as Modulators of
the Alloimmune Response". |
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Sergio
Jacobelli (Chile) PUC: "Modulation of adaptive immunity
during SLE". |
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Karina Pino-Lagos
(USA) Dartmouth College: "Retinoic acid and the regulation
of the immune response to allografts". |
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Short Presentation |
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Workshop 5:
Veterinarian Immunology |
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Simon Mackenzie
(Spain) Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona:
"Solving
the LPS puzzle in fish; a secondary role for endotoxin". |
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Rüdiger Schade
(Germany) Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin: "Immunisation of chickens against rotavirus B223
(G10P[11] by means of "classical" versus plasmid (Gene-Gun)
immunization" |
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Martin Vordermeier.
(UK). TB Research Group, VLA-Weybridge, New Haw, Addlestone, Surrey: "Bovine
tuberculosis" |
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Short Presentation |
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Workshop 6:
Regulation of the Immune Response (Dr. Hermoso) |
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Immo Prinz (Germany) Institut of Immunology, Hannover
Medical School:
"The biology of gd cells" |
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M. Alicia Curotto de
Lafaille (USA) NYU: "Adaptive
Foxp3+ regulatory T cell-dependent and -independent control of inflammation". |
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Marcela Hermoso
(Chile) University of Chile: "TLR and the
innate immune response". |
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Short Presentation,
Alejandro Sepúlveda (USA), Memorial Sloan Kettering Institute: "
Overlapping mechanisms involving NFAT- and Octamer- dependent phases probably
in competition with a miR155-dependent RNA degradation control Ctla-4
expression " |
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Short Presentation,
Myriam Lastre (Cuba) Finlay Institute: "AFLP1as
adjuvant for allergic diseases" |
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POSTERS |
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CULTURAL NIGHT |
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FRIDAY 6th |
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Plenary Session 9,
Hideki Ueno (USA) Baylor Institute for Immunology Research: "Interactions of tumor cells with
dendritic cells: balancing immunity and tolerance". |
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Plenary Session 10,
James P. Allison (USA) Sloan-Kettering Institute: "Principles and use of anti-CTLA4
antibody in human cancer immunotherapy". |
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COFFEE BREAKE |
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Symposium 7: Tumor Immunology (Dr. Mercedes López) |
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Circe Mesa (Cuba)
Center of Molecular Immunology: "Effect of inflammatory signals on the
differentiation of myeloid-derived suppressor cells: Application on cancer
immunotherapy" |
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Sergio Quezada
(USA) Sloan-Kettering Institute: ""Regulating
tumor immunity: The secret lives of tumor-reactive CD4+ T cells" " |
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Flavio Salazar
(Chile) University of Chile: "Melanoma cell
lysates as DC activators for immunotherapy" |
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Symposium 8:
Immunological Disorders |
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Eliane Piaggio
(France) Hôpital de la Pitié-Salpêtrière: "Effector T cells limit their own-pathogenicity by
activating regulatory T cells". |
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Luis Vicente Rizzo
(Brazil) Department of Immunology, Biomedical Sciences Institute, University
of São Paulo: “Autoimmunity
and inmunodefficiencies” |
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Patricia Cortés (USA) de Mount Sinai School
of Medicine: "Mechanisms of Artemis mediated
immunodeficiencies" |
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S9 Vaccine (Dr.
Oñate) |
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Peter Ljlieström
(Sweden) Karolinska Intitute: "Viral vector
vaccines". |
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Oliver Perez (Cuba)
Finlay Institute: "Mucosal
Vaccine Adjuvants". |
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Miguel O´Ryan
(Chile) Universty of Chile: "Rotavirus Vaccine: an
international clinical study". |
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LUNCH |
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Plenary Session 11,
Leo Lefrancois (USA) University of Connecticut: "Geography and plumbing control the T
cell response to infection". |
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Plenary Session 12,
Michael Dustin (USA) NYU: "Role of immunological synapse stability in regulatory T
cell function". |
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COFFEE BREAKE |
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Workshop 7:
Chemoquines and the Immune Response (SAI) |
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Christophe
Combadiere (France) University Pierre and Marie Curie: "Inflammatory Chemokines in monocyte
mobilization. Redundancy or fine tuning?" |
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Sergio Lira (Brasil,
USA) Mount Sinai School of Medicine: "Chemokines, gut homeostasis and |
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Short Presentation |
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W8: Cancer Immunotherapy
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Lorena Salazar
(University of Chile): "The memory T cell response in
prostate cancer patients". |
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Alvaro Lladser
Karolinska Institute (Sweden) : "Innate DNA sensors as molecular adjuvants for DNA
vaccines against cancer". |
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Short Presentation |
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W9: Neuroimmunology
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Dr Roberto Guiloff
(Brazil/UK) Division of Neurosciences and Mental Health. Imperial College London. "The role of the immune system in neurological
diseases". |
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Dr. Andrés M. Villa. (Argentina) |
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Short Presentation |
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Closing Conference,
Sebastian Amigorena (France) Institut Curie's Research Center: "Visualizing the immune
response". |
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POSTERS |
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CLOSING DINNER |
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SATURDAY 7th
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ALAI General Meeting |