The following speakers are scheduled to present in the MASIR program:

J. Altman (US) Phenotypic analysis of tetramer binding cells
B. Autran (F) Antigen specific T cell responses and HIV pathogenesis
N. Baumgarth (US) Enumeration of B cell responses by flow cytometry
D. Busch (D) Ex vivo analysis of early events during CD8+ memory T cell development using MHC multimer technologies
D. Douek (US) T cell receptor recognition motifs govern immune escape by antigen mutation in acute SIV infection
G. Janossy (UK) Technical developments to assess antigen-specific T cell responses in HIV and TB (co-) infections – the clinical need for discriminating rapid tests
F. Kern (D) Inroads into the phenotype and differentiation pathway of M. tuberculosis specific T cells
R. Koup (US) Comparison of antigen-specific responses between vaccines and natural infection
T. Kuus-Reichel (US) Immune monitoring using MHC tetramers: Potential clinical applications and practical considerations
A. Lanzavecchia (CH) Analysis of human B cell responses
P. Lee (US) Diversity and Recognition Efficiency of T Cell Responses to Cancer
A. Letsch (D) T cell monitoring during vaccination against tumor-associated antigens
H. Maecker (US) CMV and HIV-specific T cells in healthy individuals and HIV progressors
G. Pantaleo (CH) Antiviral memory T cell responses
L. Picker (US) Analysis of T cell function in Simian Immunodeficiency Virus (SIV) infection: New approaches using polychromatic flow cytometry
P. Romero (CH) Monitoring tumor antigen specific T-cell responses in cancer patients and clinical trials of peptide-based vaccination
S. Rowland-Jones (UK) HIV-specific CTL: differentiation state and cytokine sec
A. Scheffold (D) High-sensitivity immunofluorescence to detect specific peptide presentation at physiologically relevant quantities
R. Sekaly (CA) Pathways of memory T cell development
A. Thomsen (DK) Profiling the optimal anti-viral CD8+ T cell response using MHC dextramers
D. van Baarle (NL) Loss of CMV specific CD4+ cytokine production and proliferative capacity during the course of HIV
R. Van Lier (NL) Molecular basis of CD8+ T cell subset differentiation
R. Volkmer-Engert (D) Synthetic peptides and peptide mixtures for analysis of T-cell antigen recognition
M. Wills (UK) Selection of the virus-specific CD8+ T cell repertoire following Primary Human Cytomegalovirus (HCMV) infection: TCR affinity and CD45RA+ CD28