(Last updated: 2009/09/22)

 

TUESDAY 3rd

Registration

Opening ceremony: Flavio Salazar President of ALAI

Jorge Kalil (Brasil) IUIS:  " New approaches for developing vaccines"

Inaugural Conference: Ralph Steinman (USA) The Rockefeller University: "Manipulating Your Dendritic Cells: A Key to Better Vaccines"

WELCOME COCKTAIL

 

 

WEDNESDAY 4th

Plenary Session 1: Gabriel Rabinovich (Argentina) IBYME/CONICET:  "Galectin-glycan interactions in the regulation of adaptive immune responses: Lessons from experimental models in vivo"

Plenary Session 2:  Bill Jacobs, AECOM, NY, (USA):  "Title pending"

COFFEE BREAKE

Symposium 1:  Parasite Immunology (Dr. Ferreira)

 

Arturo Ferreira (Chile) University of Chile: "Some emerging Mechanisms in the Host/intracellular Parasite Relationships CRT y TC"

Miguel Stadecker (USA) Tuffts University Boston: "The induction and regulation of the pathogenic Th17 response in infection with schistosome helminths"

Manoel Barral Netto (Brazil) Centro de Pesquisas Gonçalo Moniz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (FIOCRUZ): "The inmune response in Lesmaniasis"

Symposium 2: Ag Presentation

 

Ana-Maria Lennon-Duménil (France) Institus Curie's Research Center: "Antigen presentation by B lymphocytes: how receptor signaling directs membrane trafficking".

Ariadna Mendoza-Naranjo (UK) UCL: "The role of Gap Junctions in the immune system activation"

Ignacio Anegon (France) INSERM:  "Promises and obstacles for the blockade of CD40-CD40L interactions in allotransplantation".

Symposium 3:  Mucosal immunology (SAI) (Dr. Chirdo)

 

Allan Mowat (UK) University of Glasgow: “Dendritic cells and macrophages in intestinal homeostasis and inflammation"

Stephen McSorley (UK) University of Glasgow : " Anti microbe immunology" .

Alejandro Chabalgoity (Uruguay) Universidad de la República: "Dynamics of protective immune responses in the lungs: Th17 and more".

LUNCH

 

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".

Plenary Session 4: Alexis Kalergis (Chile) PUC:  "Modulating dendritic cell-T cell interactions to promote pathogen immunity and reduce Autoimmunity”

COFFEE BREAKE

Workshop 1: New tools for Immune Intervention (Dr. Nervi)

Bruno Nervi (Chile) PUC: "Chemosensitization of AML following mobilization by the CXCR4 antagonist AMD3100".

Jorge Gavilondo (Cuba) CIGB:   "Modified human VEGF as anti-angiogenic vaccine and a tool for discovery of new neutralizing epitopes".

Short presentation (3)

Workshop 2:  Models for Immune-diagnostics and Immune-regulation in Autoimmune Diseases (Dr. José Aguilar)

Arturo Pareja (Peru) President Peruvian society of Immunology (SPI): "Use of BABs as screening diagnosis in Multiple Sclerosis"

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"

Short presentation (3)

Workshop 3: Anti Viral Immune Response

Matteo Iannacone (Italy) Harvard Medical School:  "I vivo imaging of antiviral immune responses"

Marcelo López-Lastra ( Chile) PUC: "Hepatitis C virus detection in blood of chronical infected patients"

Short Presentation: Pablo González (Chile) PUC: "Suppression of Immunological Synapse function by RSV".

POSTERS

 

 

THURSDAY 5th

Plenary Session 5:  Jamey Marth (USA) Howard Hughes Medical Institute: "Impact of N-glycan branching in the initiation of inflammatory and autoimmune responses".

Plenary Session 6: Laurie Glimcher (USA) Harvard School of Public Heath:  "The endoplasmic reticulum stress in immunity and autoimmunity".

COFFEE BREAKE

Symposium 4: Pathogen Immunity (Dr. Susan Bueno)

Guillermo Giambartolomei (Argentina) Faculty  of Medicine  UBA: "Brucella and immunity"

Susan Bueno (Chile) PUC:  "Salmonella interference with host immunity"

Fidel Zavala (USA) Johns Hopkins University: “ Evolution of functional properties of memory CD8+ T-cells ”

Symposium 5: Homing (Dr. Rosemblatt)

Mario Rosemblatt (Chile) UNAB: "Deciding on a migration route after antigen encounter"

Rodrigo Mora (USA) Harvard Medical School: “Dendritic cell education in the gastrointestinal mucosa: role of retinoic acid and pathogen-associated signals”

Oliver Pabst (Germany) Institut für Immunologie Medizinische Hochschule Hannover Hannover: “Beyond the induction phase: A novel three step model of Oral tolerance"

Symposium 6: Autoimmunity (Dr. Aguillón)

Catharien M.U. Hilkens (UK) Institute of Cellular Medicine, Newcastle University Medical School:   "Developing a tolerogenic cellular therapy for rheumatoid arthritis"

Juan Carlos Aguillon (Chile) Universidad de Chile: "Modulation of collagen-induced murine arthritis with by dendritic cells".

Maria Cristina Cuturi (France) INSERM, Nantes: "Tolerogenic dendritic cells in organ transplantation"

LUNCH

 

Plenary Session 7:  Burkhard Becher (Switzerland) Zürich University: "Where B cells give up, T cells show resourcefulness : On autoimmunity, evolution and wrong interpretations!"

 

Plenary Session 8 : Pending

COFFEE BREAKE

Workshop 4: Transplantation Tolerance (Dr. Kalergis)

Juan Alberto Fierro (Chile) Clinica Las Condes: "Phagosomes and Regulatory T Cells as Modulators of the Alloimmune Response".

Sergio Jacobelli  (Chile) PUC: "Modulation of adaptive immunity during SLE".

Karina Pino-Lagos (USA) Dartmouth College:  "Retinoic acid and the regulation of the immune response to allografts".

Short Presentation

Workshop 5: Veterinarian Immunology

Simon Mackenzie (Spain) Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona:  "Solving the LPS puzzle in fish; a secondary role for endotoxin".

Rüdiger Schade (Germany) Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin: "Immunisation of chickens against rotavirus B223 (G10P[11] by means of "classical" versus plasmid (Gene-Gun) immunization"

Martin Vordermeier. (UK). TB Research Group, VLA-Weybridge, New Haw, Addlestone, Surrey:  "Bovine tuberculosis"

Short Presentation

Workshop 6: Regulation of the Immune Response (Dr. Hermoso)

Immo Prinz  (Germany) Institut of Immunology, Hannover Medical School: "The biology of gd cells"

M. Alicia Curotto de Lafaille (USA) NYU: "Adaptive Foxp3+ regulatory T cell-dependent and -independent control of  inflammation".

Marcela Hermoso (Chile) University of Chile:  "TLR and the innate immune response".

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 "

Short Presentation, Myriam Lastre (Cuba) Finlay Institute:  "AFLP1as adjuvant for allergic diseases"

POSTERS

CULTURAL NIGHT

 

 

FRIDAY 6th

Plenary Session 9, Hideki Ueno (USA) Baylor Institute for Immunology Research: "Interactions of tumor cells with dendritic cells: balancing immunity and tolerance".

Plenary Session 10, James P. Allison (USA) Sloan-Kettering Institute: "Principles and use of anti-CTLA4 antibody in human cancer immunotherapy".

COFFEE BREAKE

Symposium 7:  Tumor Immunology (Dr. Mercedes López)

Circe Mesa (Cuba) Center of Molecular Immunology:   "Effect of inflammatory signals on the differentiation of myeloid-derived suppressor cells: Application on cancer immunotherapy"

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"

Symposium 8: Immunological Disorders

Eliane Piaggio (France) Hôpital de la Pitié-Salpêtrière: "Effector T cells limit their own-pathogenicity by activating regulatory T cells".

Luis Vicente Rizzo (Brazil) Department of Immunology, Biomedical Sciences Institute, University of São Paulo:Autoimmunity and inmunodefficiencies”

 Patricia Cortés (USA) de Mount Sinai School of Medicine:   "Mechanisms of Artemis mediated immunodeficiencies"

S9 Vaccine (Dr. Oñate)

Peter Ljlieström (Sweden) Karolinska Intitute:  "Viral vector vaccines".

Oliver Perez (Cuba) Finlay Institute: "Mucosal Vaccine Adjuvants".

Miguel O´Ryan (Chile) Universty of Chile:  "Rotavirus Vaccine: an international clinical study".

LUNCH

 

Plenary Session 11, Leo Lefrancois (USA) University of Connecticut: "Geography and plumbing control the T cell response to infection".  

Plenary Session 12, Michael Dustin (USA) NYU: "Role of immunological synapse stability in regulatory T cell function".

COFFEE BREAKE

Workshop 7: Chemoquines and the Immune Response (SAI)

Christophe Combadiere (France) University Pierre and Marie Curie: "Inflammatory Chemokines in monocyte mobilization. Redundancy or fine tuning?"

Sergio Lira (Brasil, USA) Mount Sinai School of Medicine: "Chemokines, gut homeostasis and
inflammation"

Short Presentation

W8: Cancer Immunotherapy

Lorena Salazar (University of Chile):  "The memory T cell response in prostate cancer patients".

Alvaro Lladser Karolinska Institute (Sweden) : "Innate DNA sensors as molecular adjuvants for DNA vaccines against cancer".

Short Presentation

W9: Neuroimmunology . (Dr. Honeyman)

Dr Roberto Guiloff (Brazil/UK) Division of Neurosciences and Mental Health.  Imperial College London.  "The role of the immune system in neurological diseases".

Dr. Andrés M. Villa. (Argentina)
Facultad de Medicina.
Universidad de Buenos Aires. " Targeting the Blood-Brain-Barrier for Multiple Sclerosis therapy "

Short Presentation

Closing Conference, Sebastian Amigorena (France) Institut Curie's Research Center: "Visualizing the immune response".

POSTERS

CLOSING DINNER

 

SATURDAY 7th

ALAI General Meeting