Sunday, October
26, 2008
8:00
- 10:30 AM Plenary Session 4: Mechanism of Suppression and Molecular Signaling of Regulatory T Cells
Chairs: Ethan Shevach (USA), Wanjun Chen (USA)
8:00
- 8:25 AM Ethan Shevach, National Institutes of Health, USA
What
do Tregs see and do?
8:25
- 8:50 AM Wanjun Chen, National Institutes of Health, USA
TGF-b control of CD4+CD25+Foxp3+
regulatory T cells: regulating the regulator
8:50
- 9:15 AM Megan Levings, University of British Columbia, Canada
Molecular regulation of human regulatory T cells
9:15
- 9:40 AM Yang-Xin Fu, University of Chicago, USA
The role of negative pathway in early infection
9:40
- 9:55 AM Short Talk: Bin Li, University of Pennsylvannia, USA
Foxp3 biochemistry in regulatory T cells - how diverse signals regulate suppression
9:55
- 10:10 AM Short Talk: Yisong Wan, University of North Carolina, USA
A Critic and specific role for Brg in regulating Treg function
10:10
- 10:40 AM Short Talks to be Chosen from Abstracts
10:40
- 11:00 AM Coffee Break
11:00
- 12:30 AM Plenary Session 5: Diversity of Regulatory T Cells
Chairs: Maria Grazia Roncarolo (Italy), Wei He (China)
11:00
-11:25 AM Maria Grazia Roncarolo, San Raffaele Telethon Institute for Gene Therapy, Italy
Natural and inducible regulatory T cells in humans
11:25
- 11:50 PM Terry Delovitch, Robarts Research Institute, Canada
Extent of Treg-iNKT cell cooperation for protection from type 1 diabetes varies between treatment with Th2-biased and -unbiased
glycolipid antigents
11:50
- 12:15 PM Vipin Kumar, Torrey Pines Institute for Molecular Studies, USA
Regulatory CD8aa+ T cells
12:15-
12:40 PM Li Zhang, University of Toronto, Canada
Double
negative regulatory T cells - non-conventional regulators
12:40
- 13:00 PM Wei He, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, China
gd T cells in immunoregulation
13:00
- 13:15 PM Short Talk to be Chosen from Abstracts
13:15
- 14:30 PM Buffet Lunch and Poster Viewing
14:30
- 16:00 PM Plenary Oral Session 1: Immunobiology of Regulatory T Cells
Chairs: Richard Flavell (USA), Li Zhang (Canada)
Nine
Short Talks to be Chosen from Abstracts
16:00
- 16:30 PM Coffee Break
16:30
- 18:00 PM Plenary Oral Session 2: Regulatory T Cells in Human Diseases
Chairs: Terry Delovitch (Canada), Fiona Powrie (UK)
Nine
Short Talks to be Chosen from Abstracts
19:00
- 22:00 PM Buffet Dinner and Poster Viewing
18:00
- 18:40 PM Special Session: Senior Editors from Science, Nature Medicine, Nature Immunology and Nature Review
Immunology address conference audience their editorial policies and process
Monday, October
27, 2008
8:00
- 10:25 AM Plenary Session 6: Tregs, Teff, and Autoimmune Disease
Chairs:
C Garrison Fathman (USA), David Hafler (USA)
8:00
- 8:25 AM C Garrison Fathman, Stanford University, USA
Treg
and Teff interactions result in anergy in the regulated cells
8:25
- 8:50 AM David Hafler, Harvard University, USA
The Balance of Human
CD4+CD25high Regulatory T cells and Th17 Effector Cells
8:50
- 9:15 AM Stephen Miller, Northwestern University, USA
A role for Tregs in controlling susceptibility/resistance and tolerance in immune-mediated demyelinating diseases
9:15
- 9:40 AM Ciriaco Piccirillo, McGill University, Canada
Functional
dynamics of CD4+Foxp3+ regulatory T cells in organ-specific autoimmunity: In vivo veritas
9:40
- 10:25 AM Short Talks to be Chosen from Abstracts
10:25
- 10:50 AM Coffee Break
10:50
- 12:35 AM Plenary Session 7: Regulatory T Cells in Infection and Cancer
Chairs: Weiping Zou (USA), Tyler J Curiel (USA)
10:50
- 11:15 AM Kingston H. G. Mills, Trinity College, Ireland
Manupulating Treg cell induction by modulating dendritic cell activation in the development of therapies for cancer and autoimmunity
11:15
- 11:40 AM Weiping Zou, University of Michigan, USA
Regulatory T cells in the tumor microenvironment
11:40
- 12:00 PM Tyler J Curiel, University of Texas Health Sciences Center, USA
Managing regulatory T cells as a novel cancer treatment strategy
12:00
- 12:15 PM Fu-Sheng Wang, Beijing Insitute of Infectious Diseases, China
Regulatory T cells in hepatitis and heptocellular carcinoma
12:15
- 12:30 PM Short Talk to be Chosen from Abstracts
12:30
- 14:00 PM Buffet Lunch and Poster Viewing
14:00
- 16:00 PM Plenary Session 8: Regulatory T Cells in Transplantation Tolerance
Chairs: Herman Waldmann (UK), Robert Lechler (UK)
14:00
- 14:25 PM Herman Waldmann, University of Oxford, UK
Explaining infectious tolerance
14:25
- 14:50 PM Kathryn Wood, University of Oxford, UK
Title to be announced
14:50
- 15:15 PM Joost van Meerwijk, INSERM, France
Prevention of actute and chronic allograft rejection with CD4+CD25+Foxp3+ regulatory T cells
15:15
- 15:40 PM Hans-Dieter Volk, Charite, Humboldt University, Germany
Regulatory T cell therapy based
on biomarker analysis – from animal models to clinical application?
15:40
- 16:05 PM Robert Lechler, King's College London, UK
Title
to be announced
16:05
- 16:30 PM Coffee Break
16:30
- 18:25 PM Plenary Session 9: Regulatory T Cells in Regional and Airway Inflammation
Chairs: Fiona Powrie (UK), Dale Umetsu (USA)
16:30
- 16:55 PM Fiona Powrie, University of Oxford, UK
Regulatory T cells in intestinal homeostasis
16:55
- 17:20 PM Joan Stein Streilein, Harvard University, USA
An Eye's view of regulatory T cells
17:20
- 17:45 PM Dale Umetsu, Harvard University, USA
The regulatory role of natural killer T cells in the airways
17:45
- 18:10 PM Catherine Hawrylowicz, King's College London, UK
Regulatory T cells in allergy and asthma: Does the vitamin D pathway plays a role?
18:10
-18:25 PM Short Talk to be Chosen from Abstracts
18:25
- 19:30 PM Plenary Session 10: Clinical Trials of Regulatory T Cells in Stem Cell Transplantation
Chairs: Bruce Blazar (USA), Kathryn Wood (UK)
18:25
- 18:50 PM Bruce Blazar, University of Minnesota, USA
Application of Tregs in bone marrow transplantation
18:50 -
19:15 PM Mattias Edinger, University of Regensbury, Germany
Regulatory T cells in allogeneic stem cell transplantation
19:15
- 19:30 PM Short Talk to be Chosen from Abstracts
20:00
PM - Gala Dinner
Tuesday, October
28, 2008
Tour
of the Great Wall, the Forbidden City, the 2008 Beijing Olympic venues, etc
