13th International Conference on Innate Immunity

Program

Thursday, June 23

 

 

 

6:00 PM

 

Conference Registration

 

 

 

8:00 PM

 

Welcome Reception/Dinner

 

 

 

Friday, June 24

 

 

 

7:30 AM

 

Breakfast

 

 

 

8:45 AM

 

Welcome & Opening Remarks

 

 

 

Session I

 

Innate immune cells

Chairs: Alberto Mantovani and Triantafyllos Chavakis

9:00 AM

1

Dendritic cell and macrophage ontogeny

Florent Ginhoux

9:25 AM

2

Advances on the biology of 6-sulfo LacNAc (slan)/M-DC8+ cells

Alessandra Micheletti, Federica Calzetti, Giulia Finotti, Silvia Lonardi, William Vermi, and Marco Cassatella

9:50 AM

3

Immune suppressive and immune stimulating monocytes in cancer

Vincenzo Bronte

10:15 AM

4

Establishment of non-resolving low-grade inflammatory polarization of monocytes during impaired wound healing

Liwu Li, Ruoxi Yuan, and Shuo Geng

10:40 AM

5

The social network of immune cells defined by quantitative proteomics

Jan Rieckmann, Roger Geiger, Daniel Hornburg, Tobias Wolf, Federica Sallusto, Antonio Lanzavecchia, Matthias Mann, and Felix Meissner

10:55 AM

6

C1q and HMGB1 reciprocally regulate human macrophage polarization

Myoungsun Son, Amit Porat, Mingzhu He, Frances  Santiago-Schwarz, Ulf Andersson, Kevin Tracey, Yousef Al-Aed, and Betty Diamond

 

 

 

11:10 AM

 

Coffee Break/Poster Viewing

 

 

 

Session II

 

Host-microbe interactions

Chairs: Peter Murray and Mihai Netea

12:00 PM

7

Linking pathogen virulence, host immunity and the microbiota at the intestinal barrier

Gabriel Nunez

 

 

 

12:25 PM

8

The novel role of constitutive AHR-signaling in type I IFN response to viral infection

Akinori Takaoka

12:50 PM

9

Mechanisms of innate immune responses against viral nucleic-acids

Jeongmin Ryoo and Kwangseog Ahn

1:15 PM

10

Exploiting host innate immune defense for pre-symptomatic diagnosis and therapy of infectious disease

Hau Nguyen, Supratim Basu, Paige Pardington, Melinda Wren, Guixia Hoo, Ed Stover, David Lee, and Goutam Gupta

1:30 PM

11

Suppressive neutrophils are induced by dysbiotic bacteria in the colon in chronic HIV

Tiffany Hensley-McBain, Jennifer Manuzak, Alexander Zevin, Ryan Cheu, Charlene Miller, Eric Lee, Cara Wilson, Adam Burgener, and Nichole Klatt

1:45 PM

12

The end of modern medicine? Can drugs that modulate innate immunity save our essential antibiotics?

David Brown

 

 

 

2:00 PM

 

Lunch/Informal Discussions

 

 

 

7:30 PM

 

Dinner/Informal Discussions at a local Greek Restaurant

Buses depart from the hotel lobby at 7:30 PM

 

 

 

Saturday, June 25

 

 

 

7:30 AM

 

Breakfast

 

 

 

Session III

Regulation of host immune responses

Chairs: Marco Cassatella and Mark Febbraio

9:00 AM

13

Role of atypical chemokine receptors in autoimmunity

Silvano Sozzani

9:25 AM

14

Expression and function of atypical chemokine receptor 4 in salivary glands

Antal Rot

9:50 AM

15

Functional and genetic architecture of cytokine responses in humans

Mihai Netea

10:15 AM

16

The functional specificity of RNA controllers in inflammation

Dimitris Kontoyiannis

10:40 AM

17

Neuropilin-1 is a high affinity receptor for extracellular miRNA and AGO2/miRNA complexes and mediates miRNA internalization and their productive activity

Gerald Prud'homme, Yelena Glinka, and George Yousef

10:55 AM

18

Del-1 is a component of the hematopoietic stem cell niche that regulates steady-state and emergency myelopoiesis

Ioannis Mitroulis, Lan-Sun Chen, Rashim Pal Singh, Matina  Economopoulou, Tetsuhiro Kajikawa, Ioannis Kourtzelis, Athanasios Ziogas, Kavita Hosur, Klara  Kotlabova, Marianna  Di Scala, Pallavi Subramanian, Andres Hidalgo, Ben Wielockx, George  Hajishengallis, and Triantafyllos Chavakis

 

 

 

11:10 AM

 

Coffee Break/Poster Viewing

 

 

 

Session IV

Immunomodulation and therapeutic intervention

Chairs: Laurie Dempsey and George Hajishengallis

12:00 PM

19

Compstatin Cp40 (AMY-101): a C3-targeted complement inhibitor reaching its prime for bedside intervention

John D Lambris, Edimara Reis, Alexandra Primikyri, Yiannis Sarigiannis, Sofia Koutsogiannaki, Malvina Papanastasiou, Hongbin Wang, Markus Huber-Lang, Martijn van Griensven, Bo Nilsson, Kristina Nilsson-Ekdahl, Richard J Smith, Dimitrios Mastellos, Margaret A Lindorfer, Ronald P Taylor, Laura Evgin, John Bell, Gang Chen, Evlambia Hajishengallis, George Hajishengallis, Despina Yancopoulou, Antonio M Risitano, and Daniel Ricklin

12:25 PM

20

Targeting tumor-associated macrophages in combination with cancer immunotherapy

Carola Ries, Sabine Hoves, Michael Cannarile, Dominik Rüttinger, Carlos Gomez-Roca, Philippe Cassier, Jean-Yves Blay, and Jean-Pierre Delord

12:50 PM

21

Human NK cells: from surface receptors to the cure of high-risk leukemias

Lorenzo Moretta, Franco Locatelli, Daniela Pende, Maria Cristina Mingari, and Alessandro Moretta

1:15 PM

22

Therapeutic targeting of the IL-23/IL-17 axis in leukocyte adhesion deficiency

Niki Moutsopoulos, George  Hajishengallis, and Steven  Holland

1:30 PM

23

Targeting oxidant-dependent mechanisms to treat acute and chronic lung diseases

Ross Vlahos

1:45 PM

24

The Agaricus blazei-based mushroom extract, AndosanTM, protects against development of intestinal cancer in the A/J Min/+ mouse model for colorectal adenocarcinoma

Geir Hetland, Dag Eide, Jon Tangen, Mads Haugen, Mohamad Mirlashari, and Jan Paulsen

2:00 PM

25

An obligate role for innate immunity and Activin A in the development of heterotopic ossification in Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva

Aris N Economides

 

 

 

2:25 PM

 

Lunch/Informal Discussions

 

 

 

7:30 PM

 

Dinner/Informal Discussions at a local Greek Restaurant

Buses depart from the hotel lobby at 7:30 PM

 

 

 

Sunday, June 26

 

 

 

7:30 AM

 

Breakfast

 

 

 

Session V

 

Mechanisms of immune-mediated diseases

Chairs: Giuseppe Matarese and Thomas Van Dyke

9:00 AM

26

Humoral innate immunity and macrophages in tumor-promoting inflammation

Alberto Mantovani

9:25 AM

27

Genetic dissection of innate immunity in cancer

Peter Murray

9:50 AM

28

Cytosolic sensing of endogenous nucleic acids as a trigger for autoimmunity

Rayk Behrendt, Katrin Peschke, Martin Achleitner, BjörnHiller, Anja Hoppe, Tina Schumann, Martin Kleefisch, and Axel Roers

10:15 AM

29

Fibrin and the activation of CNS innate immunity

Katerina Akassoglou

10:40 AM

30

Innate lymphoid cells in leukocyte adhesion deficiency-associated mucosal inflammation

Baomei Wang, Tetsuhiro Kajikawa, Xiaofei Li, Niki Moutsopoulos, Triantafyllos Chavakis, and George Hajishengallis

10:55 AM

31

Human endogenous retroviral genetic element with immune suppressive activity in both human autoimmune diseases and experimental arthritis

Magdalena Laska, Anne Troldborg, Ellen Hauge, Shervin Bahrami, and Kristian Stengaard-Pedersen

 

 

 

11:10 AM

 

Coffee Break/Poster Viewing

 

 

 

Session VI

Inflammation and Metabolic Disease

Chair: Katerina Akassoglou and Axel Roers

12:00 PM

32

Macrophage retention inhibits beige adipogenesis in obesity

Kyoung-Jin Chung, Antonios Chatzigeorgiou, Ioannis Mitroulis, Vasileia Alexaki, George Hajishengallis, and Triantafyllos Chavakis

12:25 PM

33

The chameleon role TLR4 in lipid-induced macrophage inflammation

Graeme Lancaster, Katherine Langley, and Mark Febbraio

12:50 PM

34

Distinct transcriptional signatures define conventional T versus regulatory T cell responses to leptin and mTOR inhibition: the molecular basis for metabolic manipulation of innate ad adaptive immunity

Giuseppe Matarese, Paola De Candia, and Veronica De Rosa

1:15 PM

35

RvE1 reverses neutrophil phenotypic changes induced by type 2 diabetes

Thomas Van Dyke

1:40 PM

36

Novel insights into a shared pathophysiology in type I diabetes and Crohn’s Disease

Saleh Naser

 

 

 

1:55 PM

 

Lunch/Informal Discussions

 

 

 

3:30 PM

 

City Tour

 

 

Buses depart from hotel lobby at 3:30 PM

 

7:30 PM

 

Dinner/Informal Discussions at a local Greek Restaurant

Please note buses do not pick-up at the hotel prior to dinner.

Dinner proceeds right after the tour.

 

 

 

Monday, June 27

 

 

 

7:30 AM

 

Breakfast

 

 

 

Session VII

Innate and adaptive immunity

Chair: Dimitris Kontoyiannis and Antal Rot

9:00 AM

37

Innate and adaptive immune mechanisms in inflammatory bone loss

George Hajishengallis and Jonathan Korostoff

9:25 AM

38

Differential requirement of Let-7 MicroRNAs for control of pulmonary TH17 responses

Hui-Ying Tung, Farrah Kheradmand, and David Corry

9:50 AM

39

Innate and adaptive natural killer cell responses to HIV/SIV

R Keith Reeves

10:15 AM

40

Intact innate immunity requires the distal complement pathway

Peter Ward, Fatemeh Fattahi, Claudia Kemper, and Firas Zetoune

10:40 AM

41

The PI3K/PTEN signaling pathway at the crossroads of innate and adaptive immunity

Gernot Schabbauer

10:55 AM

42

Decreased Dicer expression is linked to increased expression of co-stimulatory molecule CD80 on B cells in Multiple Sclerosis

Latt Latt Aung and Konstantin Balashov

 

 

 

11:10 AM

 

Coffee Break/Poster Viewing

 

 

 

Session VIII

Disease mechanisms and therapeutic intervention

Chairs: Peter Ward and Liwu Li

11:40 AM

43

Neutralization of Lupus autoantibodies with small molecule decoys; HIV protease inhibitor derivatives block autoantibody binding

Yousef Al-Abed, Sonya vanpatten, Shan Sun, Mingzhu He, Kai Fan Cheng, Ahmad Altiti, Ona bloom, Angelo Papatheodorou, Nathalie Meurice, Thomas Coleman, and Betty Diamond

11:55 AM

44

Therapeutic inhibition of C3 promotes wound healing

Edimara S Reis, Sophia Koutsogiannaki, Alexandra Primikyri, Ranillo RG Resuello, Joel V Tuplano, Bo Nilsson, Kristina Nilsson-Ekdahl,Despina Yancopoulou, Daniel Ricklin, and John D Lambris

12:10 PM

45

Macrophage death following influenza vaccination promotes IL-1α-dependent dendritic cell function and induces B cell response in draining lymph nodes

Chatziandreou Nikolaos, Farsakoglu  Yagmur, D’Antuono Rocco, Palomino-Segura Miguel, Pizzagalli Diego, Sallusto  Federica, Lukacs-Kornek Veronika, Turley Shannon, Lanzavecchia  Antonio, Carroll Michael, and Santiago Gonzalez

12:25 PM

46

Vγ9Vδ2 T-Cell polyfunctionality is differently modulated in HAART-Treated HIV+ patients according to CD4 T-cell count

Rita Casetti, Gabriele De Simone, Alessandra Sacchi, Alessandra  Rinaldi, Domenico Viola, Chiara  Agrati, Veronica Bordoni, Eleonora  Cimini, Nicola Tumino, Francesca Besi, and Federico  Martini

12:40 PM

47

The proprotein convertase PC1/3 regulates TLR9 trafficking and the associated signaling pathways

Franck Rodet, Marie Duhamel, Adriana Natalia Murgoci, Roxane Desjardins, Hugo Gagnon, Maxence Wisztorski, Isabelle Fournier, Robert Day, and Michel Salzet

12:55 PM

48

Neutrophils are protective in carcinogenesis by altering tumor microenvironment and controlling intestinal microbiota

Andrea Ponzetta, Marialuisa Barbagallo, Maria Rosaria Galdiero, Martina Molgora, Elena Magrini, Eduardo Bonavita, Nadia Polentarutti, Cecilia Garlanda, Alberto Mantovani, and Sebastièn Jaillon

1:10 PM

49

Innate Regeneration

Panagiotis A Tsonis

1:35 PM

50

Mechanics of the innate immune reaction to a traumatic brain injury

Dorian B McGavern

2:00 PM

51

Funding translational research and development of pharmaceutical innovation – sources and strategies to create novel therapeutics

Charles Baltic

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2:25 PM

 

Closing Remarks

 

 

 

 

 

2:30 PM

 

Lunch/Informal Discussions

 

 

 

 

 

8:00 PM

 

Farewell Dinner

 

 

 

 

 

Tuesday, June 28

 

 

 

 

 

7:30 AM

 

Breakfast

 

 

 

 

 

9:00 AM

 

Departure

             

 

 

POSTERS

52

Association of antibodies to oxidative-LDL with intima media thickness in presence of periodontal pathogen P. gingivalis

Ramin Akhi, Sohvi Hörkkö, and Pirkko Pussinen

53

B lymphocytes participate on innate immune response against intracellular bacterial pathogen Francisella tularensis

Zuzana Krocova, Klara Kubelkova, Lenka Plzakova, and Ales Macela

54

C3-deficiency is associated with reduced tumor growth in carcinogen-induced epithelial and mesenchymal murine cancer models

Elena Magrini, Sabrina Di Marco, Maria Luisa Barbagallo, Eduardo Bonavita, Stefania Gentile, Andrea Ponzetta, Alberto Mantovani, and Cecilia Garlanda

55

CSF1R-dependent monocytes are required for NK-mediated control of metastasis

Michal Beffinger, Yannick Montagnolo, Isabel Ohs, Sonia Tugues, Aron Gagliardi, Nikola Misljencevic, James Sutton, Roman Spörri, Burkhard Becher, Anurag Gupta, and Maries van den Broek

56

Cytokine profiles of Korean patients with adult onset Still’s disease treated with tumor necrosis factor inhibitors

Dae Hyun Yoo, Seung Taek Song, and Soo Man Kang

57

Efflux protein complexes are more than pumps: a case study of Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Melinda Wren, Kumkum Ganguly, Paige Pardington, Mira Dimitrijevic, Benjamin Mcmahon, Norman Doggett, Herbert Schweizer, and Goutam Gupta

58

Extracellular RNA degradation as well as VEGF-receptor inhibition counteracts arteriogenesis by interfering with mast cell degranulation

Manuel Lasch, Eike Kleinert, Thomas Lautz, Amelia Caballero-Martinez, and Elisabeth Deindl

59

Functional activity of gut CX3CR1+ macrophages in colitis-induced cancer

Giulia Marelli, Marco Erreni, Cristina Belgiovine, Alberto Mantovani, and Paola Allavena

60

Growing complexity of the invertebrate complement system: evidences from colonial tunicates

Nicola Franchi and Loriano Ballarin

61

GRPR antagonist protects from drug-induced liver injury by impairing neutrophils chemotraxis and motility

Natália Jaeger, Rafael Czepielewski, Pedro Marques, Rafaela Pereira, Rodrigo da Silva, Tiago Lopes, Vinícius da Silva, Bárbara Porto, Gustavo Menezes, and Cristina Bonorino

62

HIV infection of monocytes-derived dendritic cells inhibits Vγ9Vδ2 T cells functions

Alessandra Sacchi, Nicola Tumino, Rita Casetti, Chiara Agrati, Federica Turchi, Veronica Bordoni, Eleonora Cimini, and Federico Martini

63

Hypoxia attenuates the inflammatory response during endotoxemia, in mice and man

Dorien Kiers, Jelle Gerretsen, Emmy Janssen, Aaron John, Rianne Groeneveld, Lars Damen, Johannes van der Hoeven, Gert-Jan Scheffer, Peter Pickkers, and Matthijs Kox

64

Innate immune responses to Marek's disease vaccine

Mohammad Heidari

65

Interleukin-1 receptor 8 (IL-1R8) plays a crucial role in Natural Killer cell differentiation and function

Martina Molgora, Eduardo Bonavita, Andrea Ponzetta, Marialuisa  Barbagallo, Nadia Polentarutti, Sebastien Jaillon, Federica  Riva, Elena Magrini, Giorgia Benigni, Giovanni Bernardini, Angela Santoni, Alberto Mantovani, and Cecilia Garlanda

66

Natural killer lymphocytes in HIV and multiple sclerosis

Tatiana Koudriavtseva, Domenico Plantone, Alessandra Latini, Manuela Colafigli, Chiara Mandoj, Rosaria Renna, Elisabetta Trento, and Fulvia Pimpinelli

67

Reversal of TREM-1 ectodomain shedding and improved bacterial clearance by intranasal metalloproteinase inhibitors

Gudrun  Weiss, Cheryl  Lai, Bernadett Tildy, Robert  Snelgrove, Gang Xin, Clare  Lloyd, and Tracy Hussell

68

Roles of nitric oxide in the aggregation of resident adherent peritoneal cells in C57BL/6 mice

Dipankar Nandi

69

Studies on the expression and functional characterization of hemoglobin in human vaginal cells

Debarchana Saha, Shashank Parulekar, and KVR Reddy

70

Suppressor of Cytokine Signaling-3 (SOCS-3) regulates alveolar bone loss in experimental periodontitis and the anti-inflammatory actions of Resolvin E1 (RvE1)

Evangelos Papathanasiou, Alpdogan Kantarci, Antonios Konstantinidis, Hongwei  Gao, and Thomas Van Dyke

71

Sustained virological response to first generation DAA treatment of chronic HCV-infected patients is associated with the activation of circulating dendritic cells

Nicola Tumino, Federica Turchi, Eleonora Cimini, Chiara Agrati, Giulia Refolo, Gian Maria Fimia, Fabiola Ciccosanti, Raffaella Lionetti, Marzia Montalbano, Gianpiero D'Offizi, Rita Casetti, Veronica Bordoni, Antonella Romanelli, Federico Martini, and Alessandra Sacchi

72

The cellular and molecular aspects of early immune responses of immunocompromised host against intracellular bacterium

Klara Kubelkova and Ales Macela

73

The ex vivo tolerance induction to Toll-like receptor 7 in donor lymphocytes prevents murine acute Graft-versus-Host Disease

Nikolaos Zogas, Garyfalia Karponi, Fotios Iordanidis, Vasilios Paraskevas, Eleni Siotou, Anastasia Papadopoulou, Zaharias Scouras, Achilles Anagnostopoulos, and Evangelia Yannaki

74

Silencing of natural killer cells in the human lung tumor microenvironment by microRNA183

Melba Tejera, Jun-Min Zhou, Danielle L Gilvary,and Julie Y Djeu

75

Cell type-specific role of ATX in nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH)

Pallavi Subramanian, Nora Techritz, Marta Prucnal, Vassilis Aidinis, andTriantafyllos Chavakis

76

IL17B, a novel member of the IL17 cytokine family, promotes Type-2 immune responses through the receptors IL-17RA and IL17RB

Rajita Pappu, Vladimir  Ramirez-Carrozzi, Arivazhagan Sambandam, Naruhisa Ota, and Wenjun Ouyang