GENERAL INFORMATION

 

Accommodations

The conference participants will be staying at the Minoa Palace Hotel, which is located in Platanias, 24 km from Chania International Airport and 12 km west of Chania town center.  Participants are kindly asked to take a taxi from the airport to the hotel (~25 EURO)

 

Arrival and Check-in

It is expected that attendees will arrive/check-in on Sunday after 2:00 PM. Anyone arriving after 10:00 pm on Sunday must make alternative dinner arrangements.

 

Breakfast

Breakfast will be served at your hotel during the hours scheduled in this program.

 

Conference Venue

The Minoa Palace Conference Center is located at the hotel. 

 

Oral Presentations

An LCD projector and an overhead projector will be available for the oral presentations. Speakers are asked to bring their USB flash drive or CD to the conference reception desk at least 30 minutes prior to the session.  The allocated time for all presentations, unless otherwise indicated, includes five minutes Q&A.

 

Posters

Posters should be mounted Sunday, September 27, from 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm on the designated boards and dismounted at the end of the meeting. The dimensions of the boards are 90 cm wide x 140 cm high. Adhesive tape for mounting the posters on the boards will be available at the poster area.

 

Welcome Reception and Gala Dinner

Badges are required for admission.

 

City Tour

Busses for the city tour will be leaving from the hotel on Wednesday, September 30 at 3:00 pm Accompanying persons will also be picked up at the hotel front lobby at that time. Badges are required for participation.

 

Lunches

Lunches will be served at the indicated times to all registered participants and registered accompanying persons in the hotel. Badges are required for admission. 

 

Dinners/Informal Discussions

Three dinners/informal discussion will be served. Vegetarian entrees are available only if the request is made in advance of the meeting.

 

Internet, Phone, & Computer

Wireless Internet access is located throughout the conference center free charge during meeting hours. There are computers available in the hotel’s business center for the use of the attendees. Phone service is available for an additional charge from your hotel room.

 

Other Information

Animals are not permitted on site.

All Aegean Conferences events are non-smoking.

 

 





Sunday, September 27

 

6:00 - 8:00 PM

Open Registration

 

 

 

8:00 PM

 

Welcome Reception/Dinner

 

 

 

Monday, September 28

 

 

 

8:45 AM

 

Welcome and Opening Remarks

 

 

 

Session I

 

Innate Immunity

 

 

Chairs: B Pulendran

9:00 AM

1

Modulating vaccine responses with innate immunity

B Pulendran

9:30 AM

2

Dendritic cell subsets: priming and boosting CD8 T cell immunity

S Bedoui, PG Whitney, A Proietto, L Wakim, J Waithman, G Davey, I Caminschi, K Shortman, FR Carbone, AG Brooks and WR Heath

10:00 AM

3

The Renaissance of Complement

J Lambris

10:30 AM

4

Peptides modulating conformational changes in secreted chaperones: From in silico design to preclinical proof of concept

O Levy, Y Kliger, A Oren, H Ashkenazy, A Novik, A Amir, A Wool, Z Levine, C Nold-Petry, CA Dinarello, and I Borukhov

10:50 AM

5

An essential role of MyD88 signaling in dendritic cells in the protective immunity to Toxoplasma gondii

B Hou, A Benson, L Kuzmich, A DeFranco, and F Yarovinsky

 

 

 

11:10 AM

 

Coffee Break

 

 

 

Session II

 

NK cells

 

 

Chairs: A Moretta

11:45 AM

6

Keynote Lecture I: NK cells - bridging innate and adaptive immunity

LL Lanier

12:30 PM

7

Specificity of Alloreactive NK cells

A Moretta

1:00 PM

8

The bzip transcription factor E4BP4/NFIL3 is critcaly required for NK-Cell development

DM Gascoyne, E Long, H Veiga-Fernandes, J de Boer, O Williams, B Seddon, M Coles, D Kioussis, and HJM Brady

1:30 PM

9

NK cell regulation of antiviral T cells alters viral clearance and immune pathology

SN Waggoner, RT Taniguchi, PA Mathew, V Kumar, and RM Welsh

 

 

 

1:50 PM

 

Lunch/Disucussions

 

 

 

Session III

 

NIH sponsored session: Exploiting Innate Immunity in Early/Acute HIV infection to Inform Vaccine Discovery and Design

Chair: GP Bansal

3:30 PM

10

Innate immune responses in acute HIV-1 infection

P Borrow, S Brackenridge, O Dibben, D Goldstein, EA Haygreen, BF Haynes, BKessler, H Kramer, KJ Lavender, AJ McMichael, PJ Norris, L Qin, AR Stacey, E Taylor, G Bansal and the Centre for HIV and AIDS Vaccine Immunology (CHAVI)

3:50 PM

11

Immunological challenges in developing a vaccine against HIV

DR Casimiro

4:15 PM

12

Protective immunity: Lessons from elite HIV controllers

G Alter

4:40 PM

13

Innate immune responses in pathogenic versus non-pathogenic SIV infected nonhuman primates

AA Ansari, F Villinger, A Mayne, S Stephenson, Y Takahashi, D Little, I Dreith, and P Bostik

5:05 PM

14

Can cross talk between adaptive and innate immune responses exploit HIV's Achilles' heel?

D Unutmaz

 

 

 

8:00 PM

 

Dinner / Informal Discussions at a local Greek Restaurant

The bus for the restaurant will depart from the hotel at 7:30 PM

 

Tuesday, September 29

 

 

Session IV

 

CD4+ T cells

 

 

Chair: M Turner

9:00 AM

15

Keynote Lecture-II: Memory CD4 T Cells Induce an Innate Inflammatory Response

T Strutt, KK McKinstry, and SL Swain

9:45 AM

16

pi3k delta is essential for the function of T follicular helper cells

M Turner, SE Bell, and J Rolf

10:15 AM

17

Specialization of Regulatory T cell Subsets via cytokine production by effector T cells

MA Koch, NR Perdue, KS Smigiel, and DJ Campbell

10:35 AM

18

Intranasal vaccination with Proteosome-based adjuvants has the unique ability to induce strong IL-23/IL-17 responses

V Allard, M Plante, DS Burt, and C Daniel

 

 

 

10:55 AM

 

Coffe Break & Poster Session

 

 

 

Session V

 

CD8+ T cells

 

 

Chair: S Schoenberger

11:45 AM

19

Generating protective memory CD8 T cell responses

NL Pham, L Epping, C Fleenor, V Badovinac, and J Harty

12:15 PM

20

Molecular determinants of CD8+ T cell memory

S Feau, M Wolkers, R Arens, S Togher, J Borst, T Schumacher, H Yagita, and SP Schoenberger

12:45 PM

21

CD8 effectors elicit multiple protective effects

H Hamada and R Dutton

1:15 PM

22

Virtual Memory CD8+ T cells: Adaptive Immunity's First Responders

R Kedl

 

 

 

1:45 PM

 

Lunch/Disucussions

 

 

 

8:00 PM

 

Dinner / Informal Discussions at a Greek Restaurant

The bus for the restaurant will depart from the hotel at 7:30 PM

 

Wednesday, September 30

 

 

 

Session VI

 

Molecular control of Immunity

 

 

Chair: PD Katsikis

9:00 AM

23

Genetic and epigenetic regulation of adaptive immune responses

H Yoon, C David, R Ahmed, and JM Boss

9:30 AM

24

Transcriptional control of CD8 and NKT cell development and homeostasis

LM D’Cruz, J Fujimoto, and AW Goldrath                

10:00 AM

25

Coordinate regulation of effector and memory differentiation

G Belz, A Xin, F Masson, S Nutt, and A Kallies

10:30 AM

26

MicroRNA miR-155 regulation of CD8+ T cell responses

PD Katsikis

 

 

 

11:00 AM

 

Coffee Break

 

 

 

Session VII

 

B cells

 

 

Chairs: D Tarlinton

11:30 AM

27

B cell survival strategies in establishing and maintaining memory

D Tarlinton

12:00 Noon

28

The pro- and anti-inflammatory activity of immunoglobulin G

F Nimmerjahn

12:30 PM

29

CD28 supports normal plasma cell survival and interactions with the microenvironment

CH Rozanski, R Arens, J Nair, L Carlson, SP Schoenberger, and KP Lee

12:50 PM

30

Structural basis of the recognition of mouse Cd1d-a-Galactosylceramide by mouse Va14-vb8.2 and Va14-vb7 semi-invariant nkt t-cell receptors

O Patel, DG Pellicci, L Nielsen, S Pang, LC Sullivan, K Kyparissoudis, AG Brooks, HH Reid, S Gras, I Lucet, R Koh, MJ Smyth, T Mallevaey, JL Matsuda, L Gapin, J McCluskey, DI Godfrey, and J Rossjohn

1:10 PM

31

Protective immune responses to novel swine-origin 2009 A (H1N1) Influenza virus

I Skountzou, DG Koutsonanos, R Compans, and J Jacob

 

 

 

1:30 PM

 

Lunch/Disucussions

 

 

 

2:45 PM

 

City Tour

The bus for the tour will depart from the hotel at 2:45 PM

 

 

 

8:00 PM

 

Dinner / Informal Discussions at a Greek Restaurant

 

 

 

Thursday, October 1

 

 

 

Session VIII

 

The role of APC

 

 

Chair: T Brocker

9:00 AM

32

Cross-presentation in steady-state and viral defense

T Brocker

9:30 AM

33

Functions of blood monocytes

F Geissmann

10:00 AM

34

Lipid links: Innate and adaptive immune responses shaped by TLR2 agonists

Y Thanavala and A Lugade

10:30 AM

35

Early innate reactions of dendritic cells to vaccines correlate with the magnitude and phenotype of the immune response evoked by vaccination

A Huckriede, J Pool, F Geeraedts, J de Vries-Idema, and J Wilschut

10:50 AM

36

Cathepsin S regulates macrophage innate and adaptive immune responses to mycobacterium

X Wang, A Lau, HS Kang, TY A Liao, JSun, A Talal, and Z Hmama

 

 

 

11:10 AM

 

Coffee Break & Poster Session

 

 

 

Session IX

 

Immunity to Infection

 

 

Chair: EJ Wherry

11:45 AM

37

Transcriptional regulation of CD8 T cell exhaustion during during chronic viral infection

H Shin, SD Blackburn, AM Intlekofer, C Kao, JM Angelosanto, SL Reiner, and EJ Wherry

12:15 PM

38

Tracking CD4 T cell responses to Salmonella

S McSorley

12:45 PM

39

MYELOID Heme oxygenase-1 regulates innate immunity and autoimmunity VIA modulation of the IRF3 signaling pathway

G Kollias

1:15 PM

40

A role for the non-classical MHC class I molecule HLA-E in the innate and adaptive immune response to human cytomegalovirus

LC Sullivan, G Pietra, J Lin, SL Heatley, C Clements, T Beddoe, JB Jordan, HL Hoare, L Moretta, J Rossjohn, and AG Brooks

1:35 PM

41

Rapid and prolonged presentation of a glycoprotein D epitope to HSV-1 specific CD4+ T cells following flank-zosteriform infection

P Whitney, S Bedoui, G Davey, C Jones, F Carbone, P Reading, B Heath, and A Brooks

 

 

 

1:50 PM

 

Closing Remarks

 

 

 

2:00 PM

 

Lunch/Disucussions

 

 

 

8:00 PM

 

Farewell Dinner

 

Friday, October 2

 

 

 

7:30 AM

 

Breakfast

 

 

 


 

Posters

 

42

Increased Tbet corresponds with increase in senescence marker CD57 in influenza virus-specific CD8+ T cells in aged individuals

DV Dolfi, AM Polley, KE Schmader, and EJ Wherry

 

43

Characterization of age related changes in Natural killer cell subsets during primary influenza infection

E Beli, JF Clinthorne, TH Lee, SJ Kim, and EM Gardner

 

44

Herpes simplex virus type 1 interferes with NKT cell activation

L Bosnjak, M Moll, and JK Sandberg

 

45

Targeting dendritic subsets in vivo for vaccine enhancement using novel surface receptors

I Caminschi, F Ahmet, AM Lew, WR Heath, K Shortman, and MH Lahoud

 

46

NK regulatory cells inhibit autoreactive T cell responses in rats by a nitric oxide-dependent mechanism

T Kheradmand, NA Wolf, and RH Swanborg

 

47

Naïve macrophages suppress T cell proliferation via a nitric-oxide dependent mechanism

MJ Hamilton, F Antignano, A Von Rossum, B Luk, and G Krystal

 

48

Early immune system response to infection: relationship to cerebral malaria

NH Hunt, J Miu, A Mitchell, AM Hansen, L Hee, SM Potter, and HJ Ball

 

49

Innate and adaptive properties of the CD3+ CD56+ NKT cell response to HIV-1

KJ Lavender, E Haygreen, D Malone, T Denny, M Cohen, CHAVI Clinical Core B and P Borrow

 

50

Adaptive immunity is dispensable in primary Acinetobacter baumannii lung infection but enhances resistance to secondary infection

H Qiu, R KuoLee, G Harris, and W Chen

 

51

EPL2, a novel antibacterial peptide from Eisenia fetida tissue defenses against E. coli O157:H7

X Liu, W Xing, Z Sun, and W Chong

 

52

Regulation of human monocytes/macrophages by helminth parasites results in the induction of markers associated with alternative activation of macrophages and affects the expansion of foxp3+ T cells

RT Semnani, L Mahapatra, V Sanprasert, P Goel, and TB Nutman

 

53

Combined TLR engagement in dendritic cells differentially influences the outcome of dendritic cell activation and antigen presentation

S Siddiqui and S Basta

 

54

Genomics and proteomics analysis in immune responses of earthworm Eisenia fetida after exposure to cadmium

X Wang, L Chang, Z Sun, an H Ma

 

55

Function of physical antibiotic barrier of Eisenia fetida defenses against E. coli O157:H7

X Liu, W Xing, Z Sun, and W Chong

 

56

A differential study of the Caenorhabditis Elegans proteome after infection with A Gram-negative or Gram-positive bacterium

A Bogaerts, P Verleyen, L Temmerman, E Meelkop, B Boerjan, A Reumer, and L Schoofs  

 

57

Exploring the protective effect of Drosophila PEBP1 in innate immunity

A Reumer, A Bogaerts, T Van Loy, S Husson, L Temmerman, E Clynen, B Hassan, and L Schoofs

 

58

Immunomodulation of CD8 T cell quantity and phenotype by novel vaccine adjuvants

F Stark and L Krishnan