Notícia

Nos dias 20, 21 e 22 de Setembro de 2010 decorrerá, no Instituto de Investigação em Ciências da Vida e da Saúde (ICVS) da Universidade do Minho, em Braga, a XXXVI Reunião Anual da Sociedade Portuguesa de Imunologia, tendo como tema: «Fighting Intracellular Pathogens: from bench to bedside».


Comissão Organizadora/Científica:
- Jorge Pedrosa (ICVS, Braga)
- Paulo Vieira (Institut Pasteur, Paris)
- Gil Castro (ICVS, Braga)
- Margarida Correia-Neves (ICVS, Braga)
- Margarida Saraiva (ICVS, Braga)
- Fernando Rodrigues (ICVS, Braga)
- Rui Sarmento e Castro (Hospital Joaquim Urbano, Porto and Escola de Ciências da Saúde, Braga)
- Margarida Lima (Hospital Geral de Santo António, Porto)
- Manuel Vilanova (ICBAS, Porto)

Programa:

Monday 20th September 2010

12:00-13:45 Registration


Session I: Overcoming HIV Infection

13:45-14:00 Welcome and Overview

14:00-14:45 Françoise Barré-Sinoussi
Title to be announced
Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

14:45-15:15 Ana Espada de Sousa
Reversible and irreversible damage in HIV/AIDS
Instituto de Medicina Molecular (IMM), Lisbon, Portugal

15:15-15:45 Selected Oral Communications

15:45-16:45 Coffee Break and Poster Viewing

16:45-17:30 Robert Wilkinson
The pathogenesis of the HIV-Tuberculosis associated immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome
MRC- National Institute for Medical Research, London, UK

17:30-18:00 Rui Sarmento e Castro
AIDS control: from the reality of a Central Hospital in the North of Portugal to the National and Global scenarios
Hospital Joaquim Urbano, Porto and Escola de Ciências da Saúde, Braga, Portugal

18:00-18:30 Selected Oral Communications

19:00 Reception

Tuesday 21st September 2010

Session II: The Immune Response to Protozoa: Advances and Challenges

08:45-9:00 Announcements

09:00-09:45 Dragana Jankovic
Differentiation, regulation, and death of Th1 cells during Toxoplasma gondii infection
National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

09:45-10:15 Manuel Vilanova
Immune response to Neospora caninum in mice
Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar (ICBAS) and Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular (IBMC), Porto, Portugal

10:15-10:45 Selected Oral Communications

10:45-11:15 Coffee Break and Poster Viewing

11:15-12:00 Paul Kaye
Mononuclear phagocyte diversity and the host response to Leishmania
University of York, York, UK

12:00-12:30 Kamal Mansinho
Title to be announced
Hospital Egas Moniz, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal

12:30-13:00 Selected Oral Communications

13:00-14:30 Lunch and Poster Viewing


Session III: Mycobacteria: Modern Strategies to Fight an Old Enemy

14:30-15:15 Anne O’Garra
Regulation of the immune response in Tuberculosis: from mouse models to human disease
MRC- National Institute for Medical Research, London, UK

15:15-15:45 Jorge Pedrosa
Implications of Mycobacterium ulcerans lifestyle in the host protective immune response
Instituto de Investigação em Ciências da Vida e da Saúde (ICVS), Braga, Portugal

15:45-16:30 Coffee Break and Poster Viewing

16:30-17:15 Andrea Cooper
Vaccination against Tuberculosis - do we know what responses to generate?
Trudeau Institute, Inc, New York State, USA

17:15-17:45 Elsa Anes
Mycobacterium tuberculosis Protein ESAT-6 is a Potent Activator of the NLRP3/ASC Inflammasome
Centro de Patogénese Molecular- URIA/ Faculdade de Farmácia, Universidade de Lisboa and Instituto de Medicina Molecular (IMM), Lisbon, Portugal

17:45-18:15 Miguel Villar
Tuberculosis: epidemiology and diagnosis
Direcção Geral da Saúde, Portugal

18:15-18:45 Selected Oral Communications

Wednesday 22nd September 2010

Session IV: Fungal Infections: the Balanced Immune Response vs Pathology

09:00-09:45 Luigina Romani
Fungi in the setting of inflammation, allergy and autoimmune diseases
University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy

09:45-10:30 Stuart Levitz
Deciphering and exploiting innate recognition of fungal cell walls
University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, USA

10:30-11:45 Closing session- Honoring Prof. Mário Arala Chaves

11:45-12:00 SPI 2010 Awards

12:00-12:30 Coffee Break

12:30-13:30 SPI Annual General Assembly








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