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 to the conference venue (~25-30 EUR).

 

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, October 2, 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, October 7 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 of the 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, October 4

 

 

 

6:00 - 8:00 PM

Open Registration

 

 

 

 

 

8:00 PM

 

Welcome Reception/Dinner

 

 

 

 

 

Monday, October 5

 

 

 

 

 

8:15 AM

 

Welcome and Opening Remarks

 

 

 

 

 

Session I

 

Innate immunity and autoimmunity

 

 

 

Chairs: M Shlomchik

 

8:30 AM

1

NKT-cell activation for autoimmune diabetes prevention-silver bullet or Russian roulette?

DV Serreze, J Driver, F Scheuplein, and YG Chen

 

9:00 AM

2

T’s, B’s and DCs in systemic autoimmunity

M Shlomchik, R Herlands, R Sweet, L Teichmann, J Giles, SR Christensen, R Flavell, SR Dillon, and M Harris

 

9:30 AM

3

Environmental Triggers of Autoimmunity

M Monestier

 

10:00 AM

4

The role of innate immunity and gut flora in autoimmune diabetes development

A Chervonsky, CY Hu, MJ Liu, J Peng, J Gordon, FS Wong, and L Wen

 

10:30 AM

5

Meningeal mast cells regulate CNS inflammatory cell influx and blood brain barrier permeability in EAE

BA Sayed, AL Christy, ME Walker, and MA Brown

 

11:00 AM

6

Microbiome in autoimmunity

M Atkinson

 

 

 

 

 

11:30 AM

 

Coffee Break

 

 

 

 

 

Session II

 

Inflammation, infections and enhancement versus prevention of autoimmunity

 

 

 

Chairs: M von Herrath

 

12:00 Noon

7

Virus infections and autoimmunity – good or bad?

M von Herrath and C Filippi

 

12:30 PM

8

Is there a role for Th17 cells in diabetes development?

D Bending, J Phillips, H de La Pena, M Veldhoen, B Stockinger, C Uyttenhove, and ACooke

 

1:00 PM

9

Role of NKT cells : from viral infection to TYPE 1 diabetes

J Diana and A Lehuen

 

1:30 PM

10

Analyses of iNKT cell agonists that optimally protect from Type 1 diabetes

R Tohn, H Blumenfeld, D Ly, SA Porcelli, PB Savage, and TL Delovitch

 

2:00 PM

11

Myocarditis: the critical decisions

N Rose

 

 

 

 

 

2:30 PM

 

Lunch

 

 

 

 

 

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, October 6

 

 

 

 

Session III

 

Antigen presenting cells in autoimmunity

 

 

 

Chair: J Katz

 

8:30 AM

12

A novel subset of dendritic cells, merocytic dendritic cells, stimulate CD4+ and CD8+ islet-specific T cells in vivo and precipitate type 1 diabetes in NOD mice

JD Katz, JK Ondr, R Opoka, and E Janssen

 

9:00 AM

13

Indoleamine 2,3 dioxygenase (IDO) and immune privilege

AL Mellor, BA Johnson III, PR Chandler, B Baban, MD Sharma, and DH Munn

 

9:30 AM

14

Protein modifications to autoantigens in autoimmune disease

S Connolly, H Doyle, ML Yang, and MJ Mamula

 

10:00 AM

15

IgG and CD95 denotes a unique population of human memory B cells that are uniquely driven to differentiate into plasma cells by IL-21 and BAFF and are expanded rheumatoid arthritis patients

R Ettinger, S Kuchen, C Hostage, M Wilson, R Goldbach-Mansky, and PE Lipsky

 

10:30 AM

16

The Inducible Costimulator ICOS is Required for the Maintenance of Germinal Centers:  in vivo Studies with a Novel Depleting anti-ICOS Antibody

R Herbst, G Carlesso, R Lemaire, D Taylor, N Mittereder, E Kuta, T Burwell, T Delaney, J Connor, J Zhu, H Dong, M Bowen, J Lin, C Gao, R Woods, Karnell, R Ettinger, P Brohawn, Y Yao, B Jallal, and AJ Coyle

 

 

 

 

 

11:00 AM

 

Coffee Break & Poster Session

 

 

 

 

 

Session V

 

Autoantigens, Selection, and autoimmunity

 

 

 

Chair: S Miller

 

12:00 Noon

17

Control of immune tolerance by the Aire protein

MS Anderson

 

12:30 PM

18

Creating autoimmunogenic determinants; the evidence so far

Y D Dai, A Quinn, K P Jensen, I Marrero, L S Wicker, and E E Sercarz

 

1:00 PM

19

Mechanisms of tolerance induction by fixed APCS for the treatment of autoimmune disease and tissue transplantation

SD Miller, D Turley, C. Smith, A. Martin, D Getts, S. Prasad, AP Kohm, H Zhang, J Podojil, and X Luo

 

1:30 PM

20

Identification of a new autoantigen in type 1 diabetes

K Haskins, B Stadinski, J Kappler, and T Delong

 

2:00 PM

21

Mechanisms of impaired regulation in T1D

A Long, A Schneider, M Rieck, C Greenbaum, JH Buckner

 

 

 

 

 

2:30 PM

 

Lunch

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

Wednesday, October 7

 

 

 

 

 

Session V

 

Regulatory T cells and T cell homeostasis in autoimmunity

 

 

 

Chair: D Farber

 

8:30 AM

22

Molecular mechanisms of regulatory T cell differentiation and function

A Chaudhry, D Rudra, T Egawa, MMW Chong, P Treuting, DR Littman, and AY Rudensky

 

9:00 AM

23

Immune privilege, Tregs and autoimmunity

RR Caspi, R Zhou, P Silver, R Horai Rajeev, A Shao, B Su, and CC Chan

 

9:30 AM

24

The role of regulatory t cells in autoimmunity

M Battaglia 

 

10:00 AM

25

Viral triggers of central nervous system autoimmune disease

J Goverman and Q Ji

 

10:30 AM

26

Regulatory mechanisms AND type 1 diabetes

DAA Vignali, LW Collison, M Bettini, and V Chaturvedi

 

11:00 AM

27

Tissue-retentive memory CD4 T cells

DL Farber, JR. Teijaro, C Page, L LeFrancois, and D Verhoeven

 

 

 

 

 

11:30 AM

 

Coffee Break

 

 

 

 

 

Session VI

 

Regulatory T cells and T cell homeostasis in autoimmunity

 

 

 

Chairs: D Farber

 

12:00 Noon

28

Homeostasis of human memory T cells in islet transplantation

E Bonifacio, P Monti, A Heninger, A Theil, and R Paul

 

12:30 PM

29

Common Mechanisms in Autoimmunity: An Expanding Role for Th40 cells

D Wagner

 

1:00 PM

30

Rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease: From pathogenesis to vaccine

J Kalil and L Guilherme

 

 

 

 

 

1:30 PM

 

Lunch

 

 

 

 

 

3:00 PM

 

City Tour

 

The bus for the tour will depart from the hotel at 3:00 PM

 

 

 

 

 

8:00 PM

 

Dinner / Informal Discussions at a local Greek Restaurant

 

 

 

 

 

Thursday, October 8

 

 

 

 

 

Session VII

 

Immunotherapies for Autoimmunity

 

 

 

Chair: D Scott

 

8:30 AM

31

Role of tregs and Ig epitopes in B-cell delivered Gene therapy for tolerance

DW Scott

 

9:00 AM

32

Targeting regulatory T-cells in patients with  rheumatoid arthritis

MR Ehrenstein

 

9:30 AM

33

The use of T cell co-receptor blockade for the reversal of Type 1 diabetes

R Tisch, Z Yi, and B Wang

 

10:00 AM

34

Recombinant T-Cell receptor ligands: Mechanism of activity and application toward autoimmune therapy

GG Burrows, YK Chou, J Huan, R Meza-Romero, S Andrew, A Buenafe, T Proctor, S Sinha, S Subramanian, J Mooney, DN Bourdette, H Offner, and AA Vandenbark

 

10:15 AM

35

AIRE activated tissue specific genes have histone modifications associated with inactive chromatin

T Org, A Rebane, K Kisand, M Laan, U Haljasorg, R Andreson, and P Peterson

 

10:30 AM

36

Regulatory T cells insufficiency in patients with alopecia areata

A Arakawa, M Ono, H Fujii, A Kitoh, M Nakamura, S Sakaguchi, and Y Miyachi

 

 

 

 

 

10:45 AM

 

Coffee Break & Poster Session

 

 

 

 

 

Session VIII

 

 

 

 

 

Chair:

 

11:30 AM

37

Inflammation-induced antibody polyreactivity A clue to the origin of rheumatoid factor?

JD Dimitrov and TL Vassilev

 

11:45 AM

38

AHR ligand induced human regulatory T cells

R Gandhi, FJ Quintana, M Farez, A Laroni, D Kumar, and HL Weiner

 

12:00 Noon

39

Targeting B cell function in Type 1 Diabetes

JW Thomas, RA Henry, and PL Kendall

 

12:15 PM

40

MCS-18, a novel natural product isolated from Helleborus purpurascens, inhibits dendritic cell activation and prevents autoimmunity as shown in vivo using the NOD model

E Zinser, L Littmann, S Rössner, F Kerek, Y Resheq, C Seifarth, and A Steinkasserer

 

 

 

 

 

12:30 PM

41

Keynote Speaker:

TGF-b, Regulatory T cells, and immune suppression

RA Flavell

 

 

 

 

 

1:30 PM

 

Closing Remarks

 

 

 

 

 

1:45 PM

 

Lunch

 

 

 

 

 

8:00 PM

 

Farewell Dinner

 

 

Friday, October 9

 

 

 

7:30 AM

 

Breakfast

 

 

 


 

Posters

 

42

Autoimmune mechaisms in Chronic obstructive pulmonary Disease

MT Borchers, GT Motz, BL Eppert, B Wortham, and J Flury

 

43

Unifying theory for the mechanism of action of IVIG for the treatment of autoimmune diseases

DR Branch

 

44

Analysis of peripheral tolerance in Adascid patients treated with enzyme replacement or gene therapy

I Brigida, AV Sauer, S Selleri, S Scaramuzza, A Ripamonti, N Carriglio, M Casiraghi, F Ferrua, MG Roncarolo, and A Aiuti

 

45

Aging Worsens Sjögren's syndrome like keratoconjunctivitis in CD25KO mice

CS De Paiva, C Hwang, JD Pitcher III, SB Pangelinan, E Rahimy, W Chen,  WJ Farley, JY Niederkorn, ME Stern, D-Q Li, and SC Pflugfelder

 

46

Thymus and activation regulated chemokine (TARC/CCL17) in serum during and after pregnancy in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus and in cord blood from their neonates

U Holmlund, K Bremme, and E Sverremark-Ekström

 

47

Diversity of TCRS on natural FOXP3 T cells in mice lacking AIRE expression

D Daniely, J Kern, A Cebula, and L Ignatowicz

 

48

FCγ–receptor antagonist SM101 is effective in the therapy of autoimmune disease animal models

U Jacob

 

49

Plasma monocyte chemotactic protein-1 levels correlated with pulmonary hypertension in patients with systemic sclerosis

HS Kim, MK Park, HY Kim, and SH Park

 

50

Anti-DNA antibodies in Systemic lupus erythematosus – never ending story?

V Král, I Stiborová, S Blažíčková, and L Cebecauer

 

51

Aire deficiency results in decreased expression of CCR4 and CCR7 ligands and in delayed migration of CD4+ thymocytes

M Laan, K Kisand, V Kont, K Möll, L Tserel, HS Scott, and P Peterson

 

52

Long-term follow-up of lymphocyte subpopulations and intracellular cytokine production in patients with anca-associated vasculitis treated with RITUXIMAB

H Mareckova, Z Hruskova, E Jancova, R Rysava, and V Tesar

 

53

MicroRNA regulation of TH17 development

MP Mycko, M Marasiewicz, A Machlanska, M Cichalewska, B Szymanska, H Cwilinska, and KW Selmaj

 

54

Distinctive and co-operative role of TYPE 1 and TYPE 2 interferons in the immunopathogenesis of Th1 and Th17 cells in Experimental Autoimmune Encephalomyelitis

R Naves, SP Singh, P De Sarno, RC Axtell, L Steinman, and C Raman

 

55

CD5 Sets Threshold for Activation and Anergy in T-cells

C Raman, CS Sestero, D McGuire, and P De Sarno

 

56

Exceptional conformational plasticity of a dodecameric self-peptide bound by the HLA-B*2705 antigen

A Ziegler, P Kumar, R Misselwitz, A Vahedi-Faridi, J José Crangolini, W Saenger, JA López de Castro, and B Uchanska-Ziegler

 

57

Inuslin-producing cells derived from human tissue stem cells: susceptibility to immune responses directed against beta cells

L Anker-Kitai and S Efrat

 

58

Genome-wide identification and characterization of novel genes encoding potential cytokines with modulatory effects on Th cells

W Han, P Wang, Y Zhang, W Fu, X Guo, T Li, T Shi, and D Ma