SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME |
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Wednesday, 30 January 2008 |
17.00 - 19.00 |
Registration (coffee and tea) |
19.00 - 21.00 |
Welcome party (social gathering) |
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Thursday, 31 January 2008 |
8.30 - 10.00 |
Session 1: A Forum on T Cell Subsets: Function & Phenotype
Victor Appay: “Parallel differentiation of CD4+ and CD8+ lineages”
Renee Van Lier: “Do we need memory CD8+ T cells against persisting viruses?”
Federica Sallusto: "Memory T cell subsets defined by chemokine receptor expression"
Mario Roederer: "Antigen-specific T cells: correlating function and phenotype” |
10.00 - 10.30 |
Break (coffee and tea) |
10.30 - 12.00 |
Session 2: MHC multimers (workshop)
Mike Keeney: "Enumeration of antigen-specific CD8+ T lymphocytes using class I MHC multimers"
Giulia Casorati: “Class II tetramers, developments and applications”
David Price: “Optimized ex vivo detection of low frequency antigen-specific CD8+ T cell populations with peptide-MHC class I tetramers” |
12.00 - 16.00 |
Afternoon break (lunch on your own) |
16.00 - 16.30 |
Poster viewing |
16.30 - 18.00 |
Session 3: Elispot (workshop)
Daniel Olive: “The ELISPOT assay – quality issues related to its use in a multicenter setting”
Paul Lehmann: “Multi color ELISPOT assays for GLP compliant, high throughput measurements of frequencies and effector functions of antigen-specific T cells”.
Oral Poster Presentation
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18.00 - 18.30 |
Break (coffee and tea) |
18.30 - 20.00 |
Session 4: T-cell Epitope Mapping (workshop)
Melissa Precopio: "Optimization of T cell epitope identification".
Peter Burgers: “The impact of impurities in synthetic peptides on the outcome of T-cell stimulation assays" |
20.00 - 22.00 |
Poster session (buffet dinner) |
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Friday, 1 February 2008 |
8.30 - 10.00 |
Session 5: Intracellular cytokine staining (workshop)
Laurel Nomura (BD Biosciences, platinum sponsor) : "Standardization and optimization of multiparameter flow cytometric studies"
Stephan De Rosa: “Validation of ICS assays for evaluation of T cell responses in vaccine trials” |
10.00 - 10.30 |
Break (coffee and tea) |
10.30 - 12.00 |
Session 6: Cytokine capture assay (workshop)
Mario Assenmacher: “The cytokine capture assay for isolating T-cells for adoptive transfer”
Andreas Thiel: “Assessing T-cell immunity according to antigen-induced CD154 expression”
Oral Poster Presentation
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12.00 - 16.00 |
Afternoon break (lunch on your own) |
16.00 - 16.30 |
Poster viewing |
16.30 - 18.00 |
Session 7: Proliferation (CFSE) (workshop)
Matthias Wölfl: “Use of CD137 to study the full repertoire of CD8+ T cells without the need to know their epitope specificities”
Paul Wallace: “Divided we stand: tracking cell proliferation from near-ultraviolet to the near-infrared"
Oral Poster Presentation |
18.00 - 18.30 |
Break (coffee and tea) |
18.30 - 20.00 |
Session 8: CTL assays by flow; CD107 (workshop)
Mike Betts: “Degranulation and perforin upregulation by antigen-activated T cells”
Carel Van Baalen: “FATT-CTL assay for detection of antigen-specific cell-mediated cytotoxicity”
Oral Poster Presentation |
20.00 - 22.00 |
Poster session (buffet dinner) |
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Saturday, 2 February 2008 |
8.30 - 10.00 |
Session 9: B-cell Epitope mapping (workshop)
Tony Moody: "Antigen-specific B cells: reagents, methods, and considerations”
Mike Schutkowski: "Profiling of antibody signatures using peptide microarrays”
Oral Poster Presentation |
10.00 - 10.30 |
Break (coffee and tea) |
10.30 - 12.00 |
Session 10: High-throughput screening (workshop)
Giusi Li Pira: “High throughput analysis of antigen specific T cell immunity”
Ralph Willemsen: “Selection of human antibody fragments directed against Tumor T-cell epitopes for adoptive immunotherapy” |
12.00 - 16.00 |
Afternoon break (lunch on your own) |
16.00 - 16.30 |
Poster viewing |
16.30 - 18.00 |
Session 11: Late-breaking news (forum)
Alex Sette: “The immune epitope database and large scale epitope identification projects”
Oral Poster Presentation |
18.00 - 19.00 |
Summary and Discussion
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19.00 - 20.00 |
Free time |
20.00 - 23.00 |
Farewell dinner |
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Sunday, 3 February 2008 |
Departure |
