GENERAL INFORMATION

Accommodations

The conference participants will be staying at the Aldemar Paradise Village (A' class), which is located in Kalithea, 20 km from the airport and 6 kilometers from Rhodes harbour.

 

Conference Venue

The Aldemar Conference Center is located at the hotel. 

 

Oral Presentations

An LCD 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 Saturday afternoon, October 11, on the designated boards and dismounted at the end of the meeting. The dimensions of the boards are 170 cm wide x 110 cm high. Adhesive tape for mounting the posters on the boards will be available at the poster area.

 

Internet

Internet will be available for participants during the meeting hours free of charge.

 

City Tour

Busses for the city tour will be leaving from the hotel on Tuesday, October 14 at 3:00 p.m. Accompanying persons will also be picked up at the hotel front lobby at that time. Badges are required for participation.

 

All Aegean Conferences events are non-smoking.

 

 





Saturday, October 11

 

5:00 - 8:00 PM

Open Registration

8:00 PM

 

Welcome Reception/Dinner

 

 

 

Sunday, October 12

 

 

 

8:50 AM

 

Welcome and Opening Remarks

M Busslinger

 

 

 

Session I

Basic molecular processes in hematopoiesis

Chair: A Tarakhovsky

 

 

 

9:00 AM

1

The role of cohesins in gene regulation and genome organization

S Hadjur, L Williams, H Mira, AG Fisher, and M Merkenschlager

9:30 AM

2

Regulation of higher-order chromatin structure and gene expression by the nuclear matrix component SATB2

I Pawlitzky, M Dautzenberg, S Vomstein, J Skok, and R Grosschedl

10:00 AM

3

Epigenetic control of antiviral immunity

T Fang and A Tarakhovsky

10:30 AM

4

Novel roles for microRNA-34 in B-cell development

DS Rao, RM O’Connell, A Chaudhuri, and D Baltimore

 

 

 

10:50 AM

 

Coffee Break & Poster Viewing

 

 

 

Session II

Regulation of antigen receptor assembly and diversity

Chair: C Murre

 

 

                                     

11:30 AM

5

The 3D structure of the immunoglobulin heavy chain locus

S Jhunjhunwala, M Van Zelm, M Peak, S Cuthcin, T Koch, and C Murre

12:00 Noon

6

Recombinase-dependent homologous pairing of Ig alleles: A novel regulatory aspect of allelic exclusion

K Marszalek, S Hewitt, J Tenthorey, G Salvagiotto, Y Ji, J Glysdael, M Farrar, DG Schatz, M Busslinger, and JA Skok

12:30 PM

7

Subnuclear localization and the initiation of TCRB allelic exclusion

RJ Schlimgen, KL Reddy, H Singh, and MS Krangel

1:00 PM

8

Novel roles for NBS1 in alternative nonhomologous end goining of V(D)J recombination intermediates

L Deriano, TH Stracker, A Baker, JHJ Petrini, and DB Roth

1:30 PM

9

miR-181b negatively regulates activation induced deaminase in B cells

VG de Yébenes, L Belver, and AR Ramiro

 

 

 

1:50 PM

 

Lunch

 

 

 

8:00 PM

 

Dinner at a local Greek Tavern

 

 

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

 

 

 

Monday, October 13

 

 

Session III

Transcriptional control of T-lymphopoiesis

Chair: D Littman

 

 

 

9:00 AM

10

Early T-cell regulation of PU.1 expression and activity

EV Rothenberg, M Zarnegar, M Morales Del Real, J Zhang, DD Scripture-Adams, C Georgescu, and H Bolouri

9:30 AM

11

Transcriptional regulation of the CD4:CD8 lineage decision

T Egawa, M Chong, A Collins, and DR Littman

10:00 AM

12

The molecular basis of the function of Foxp3-expressing regulatory T cells

M Ono and S Sakaguchi

10:30 AM

13

Deviation of CD4 single positive thymocytes into the natural Treg lineage

G Wirnsberger, F Mair, J Huehn, and L Klein

11:00 AM

14

Distinct roles for non-coding regulatory regions at the foxp3 locus in defining the frequency of regulatory T cells

Y Zheng, SZ Josefowicz, A Chaudhry, TT Chu, A Kas, and A Rudenksy

 

 

 

11:20 AM

 

Coffee Break & Poster Viewing

 

 

 

Session IV

 

T cell signaling

Chair: BJ Fowlkes

 

 

 

12:20 PM

15

TCR signaling, notch, gata3, and Zbtb7b promote CD4 T cell development

BJ Fowlkes, L Wang, K Laky, and R Bosselut

12:40 PM

16

Stage-dependent molecular changes in notch signaling regulate human t cell development

T Taghon, I Van de Walle, G De Smet, M De Smedt, and J Plum

1:00 PM

17

β-Catenin acts downstream of αβTCR and determines the outcome of thymic selection

D Kovalovsky, Y Yu, M Dose, Z Guo, M Mandal, and F Gounari

1:20 PM

18

Phosphorylation of ikaros by CK2 kinase regulates expression of the TDT gene during T cell differentiation

Z Gurel, T Ronni, S Ho, J Kuchar, KJ Payne, CW Turk, and S Dovat

1:40 PM

19

Functional analysis of the role of polarity determinants in lymphocyte development and function

F Sacirbegovic, J Oliaro, V van Ham, V Vasioukhin, P Humbert, and S Russell

 

 

 

2:00 PM

 

Lunch

 

 

 

8:00 PM

 

Dinner at Local Greek Tavern

 

 

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

 

 

 

Tuesday, October 14

 

 

 

Session V

Inflammation

Chair: M Busslinger

 

 

 

9:00 AM

20

The transcription factor XBP1 regulates hepatic lipogenesis, immunity and inflammation

AH Lee, EF Scapa, DE Cohen, A Kaser, R Blumberg, and LH Glimcher

 

 

 

Session VI

Early hematopoiesis

Chair: M Busslinger

 

 

 

9:30 AM

21

Dormant and activated stem cells during homeostasis injury and cancer

M Essers, A Wilson,G Oser, and A Trumpp

10:00 AM

22

The role of the ubiquitin-proteasome system in hematopoietic stem cell self-renewal and transformation

I Aifantis

 

 

 

10:30 AM

 

Coffee Break & Poster Viewing

 

 

 

11:30 AM

23

Wnt signals regulate critical developmental steps in hematopoiesis

FJT Staal ,T Luis, F Weerkamp, K Pike-Overzet, MRM Baert, BAE Naber, EEL Koster, EEF de Haas, and JJM van Dongen

11:50 AM

24

Regulation of the T/B lineage fate choice by hebalt

D Wang, CL Claus, M Braunstein, and MK Anderson

12:10 PM

25

EBF directed lineage commitment before expression of B220 or CD19

R Mansson, S Zandi, P Tsopogas, and M Sigvardsson

12:30 PM

26

Priming of the multi-potent HSC for lymphoid lineage transcription and differentiation is controlled by Ikaros

K Georgopoulos

 

 

 

1:00 PM

Lunch

 

 

3:00 PM

 

City Tour

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

 

 

 

8:00 PM

 

Dinner at a local Greek Tavern

 

 

 

Wednesday, October 15

 

 

 

Session VII

B-lymphopoiesis

Chair: S Nutt

 

 

 

9:00 AM

27

Role of IKK mediated NFkB signaling in B cell development

E Derudder, M Schmidt-Supprian, E Cadera, M Pasparakis, M Schlissel, and K Rajewsky

9:30 AM

28

Regulation of early B cell development by IL-7 and Stat5 signaling

S Malin, S McManus, A Delogu, C Cobaleda, M Fuxa, L Hennighausen, A Strasser, and M Busslinger

10:00 AM

29

Inhibition of expression of surrogate light chains of the pre-BCR and other important proteins during lymphocyte development through calmodulin inhibition of E-proteins

J Hauser, A Wallenius, N Sveshnikova, J Saarikettu, and T Grundström

10:30 AM

30

Controlling germinal centre output

D Tarlinton, D Zotos, I Vikstrom, J Coquet, A Strasser, D Godfrey, L Corcoran, M Busslinger, M Smyth, D Huang, and S Nutt

11:00 AM

31

The control of lymphocyte terminal differentiation

S Nutt, S Carotta, A Xin, G Belz, and A Kallies

 

 

 

11:20 AM

 

Coffee Break & Poster Viewing

 

 

Session VIII

Lymphoid tumors

Chair: A Strasser

 

 

 

12:00 Noon

32

The role of pro-survival Bcl-2 family members in tumour development and sustaining tumour growth

PN Kelly, JM Adams, and A Strasser

12:30 PM

33

BLIMP1 is limiting for transformation in a mouse plasmacytoma model

LM Corcoran, K D’Costa, D Emslie, G Smythe, SL Nutt, A Karnowski, A Kallies, and D Metcalf

12:50 PM

34

Loss of E2A function is linked to human lymphoma pathogenesis

S Mathas and M Janz

1:10 PM

35

Molecular genetics of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma

R Dalla-Favera

1:40 PM

36

Genomic and genetic analysis to discover the Achilles heel of lymphoid malignancies

LM Staudt

 

 

 

2:10 PM

 

Concluding Remarks

 

 

 

2:30 PM

 

Lunch

 

 

 

8:00 PM

 

Gala Dinner

 

 

 

Thursday, October 16

 

 

 

7:30 AM

 

Breakfast

 

 

Departure

 

POSTERS

 

37

HEB upregulates CD3 and TCRb and downregulates DELTEX-1 to allow progression of T cell precursors through b-selection

M Braunstein and MK Anderson

 

38

Dysregulation of apoptosis pathways in lupus patients revealed by network analysis of dynamic gene expression data

I Dozmorov, N Dominguez, J B Harley, J M Guthridge

 

39

CpG methylation of the IFNG gene as a mechanism to induce immunosupression in tumor Infiltrating lymphocytes

PCJ Janson, P Marits, M Thörn, R Ohlsson, and O Winqvist

 

40

Acquisition of a functional T cell receptor during T lymphocyte development is enforced by HEB and E2A Transcription factors

ME Jones and Y Zhuang

 

41

Micro-rnas in lymphoid lineage decisions: role in development of plasmacytoid denritic cells

JJ Karrich, F Scheeren, H Schmidlin, W Dontje, M Nagasawa, He Spits, and B Blom

 

42

V(D)J recombination and nucleosome positioning

HD Kondilis, RM Cobb, EM Oltz, and MS Krangel

 

43

Presenilin-dependent Notch signaling influences fate determination of CD4 T cells by modulating TCR signal strength

K Laky, H Yamane, S Evans, J Hu-Li, WE Paul, and BJ Fowlkes

 

44

Therapeutic targeting of circulating endothelial cells and VEGFR1+ progenitors for the prevention of treatment relapse and metastasis

E Naik, J M Adams, and A Strasser

 

45

A conserved gene regulatory network orchestrating innate versus adaptive cell fate choice in the immune system

CJ Spooner, J Cheng, and H Singh

 

46

Stem cell specific epigenetic priming and B cell specific transcriptional activation at the mouse Cd19 locus

K Walter and H Tagoh

 

47

Regulation of EBF levels by IL-7 does not account for the critical role of IL-7 in B cell specification

P Tsapogas, S Zandi, R Månsson, and M Sigvardsson

 

48

Notch in human T cell differentiation: an interplay with different ligands?

I Van de Walle , G De Smet, M De Smedt, J Plum, and T Taghon

 

49

Germinal center maintenance mediated by IL21 acting on B cells

D Zotos, J Coquet, A Light, A Kallies, L Corcoran, D Godfrey, M Smyth, S Nutt, and D Tarlinton

 

50

Transcription Factor 1 (TCF1) functions as a molecular switch during T cell development

MM Tiemessen, T Schonewille, MR Baert, T C Luis, JJ van Dongen, and FJ Staal

 

51

Micro-RNA gene deregulation following BCL6 rearrangement Associated with chromosome fragility

RAF MacLeod,  B Schneider, S Nagel, M Sherr, S Chen, M Kaufmann, and HG Drexler

 

52

Further characterization of the roles of Bcl11a and Bcl11b in homeostatic haematopoiesis

P Li, SC Lee, M Ortiz, and P Liu

 

53

Ikaros expression by B-1 cells questions its guide role in the lymphoid commitment

AF Popi, AL Bacchi, S Schenkman, and M Mariano

 

54

Lymphoid and myeloid gene expression during B-1 cell differention into mononuclear phagocytes

AF Popi, FLT Motta, RA Mortara, S Schenkman, JD Lopes, and M Mariano