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Subject: [Ltkhkunta] Reminder: Inflammation and Immunity Minisymposium tomorrow, Tuesday 26th!

 

Welcome to hear seven lectures tomorrow by outstanding guest speakers!

 

 

Minisymposium:

Inflammation and Immunity

Nov 26 2013

 

 

Time

November 26, 2013, 8:30-15:55

Place

University of Oulu, Kontinkangas campus: Lecture hall A101 (Dept. of Anatomy and Cell Biology), Aapistie 7A

Credits

0.7 ECTS for postgraduate training

Requirements

To obtain the credits, participation in the lectures (all three sessions), post-lecture discussion and suggested readings are required.

Organizer

Biocenter Oulu Doctoral Programme (BCO-DP)

Contact

BCO-DP coordinator Ritva Saastamoinen, tel. 0294 48 6102, e-mail: ritva.saastamoinen(at)oulu.fi, and http://www.oulu.fi/biocenter/ 

 

 

PROGRAMME

 

8:30-9:00

Get-together coffee

9:00-9:10

Opening words, Dr. Ritva Saastamoinen, BCO-DP coordinator

Session 1 Chair: Professor Johanna Myllyharju

9:10-9:50

Keynote: Cells on move - the basis of inflammation and immunity

Prof. Sirpa Jalkanen

MediCity Research Laboratory and Dept. of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, University of Turku, Finland

9:50-10:30

Into Thin Air: Regulation of Immunity and Inflammation by Hypoxia

Prof. Cormac Taylor

School of Medicine & Medical Science, Conway Institute, Belfied, Dublin, Ireland

10:30-11:10

The Role of Interleukin-6 and ADAM17 in Inflammation and Cancer

Prof. Stefan Rose-John

University of Kiel, Germany

11:10-12:40

Lunch Break (1.5 h)


Session 2 Chair: Professor Seppo Vainio

12:40-13:20

Regulation of renin cell identity in development and disease

Dr. R. Ariel Gomez

Center of Excellence in Pediatric Nephrology, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, USA

13:20-14:00

Renin precursors and hematopoiesis

Dr. Maria L.S. Sequeira-Lopez

Department of Pediatrics, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, USA

 

14:00-14:30

Coffee break

Session 3 Chair: Professor Taina Pihlajaniemi

14:30-15:10

Role of Vascular Basement Membranes and Matrix Metalloproteinases (MMPs) in Leukocyte Infiltration into the Brain in Murine Experimental Autoimmune Encephalomyelitis (EAE)

Dr. Lydia Sorokin

Institute of Physiological Chemistry and Pathobiochemistry, University of München, Germany

15:10-15:50

A Sensitized ENU Screen Identifies a New player in the CD28-mediated Costimulatory Pathway

Dr. Marie Malissen

Ciml Immunology, Centre d'Immunologie de Marseille-Luminy, Marseille & INSERM Centre for Immunophenomics (CIPHE, Marseille), France

15:50-15:55

Closing

 

16:10-17:30

 

Post –lecture discussion groups with the speakers for pre-registered participants

 

 

 

Speaker information links:

 

Sirpa Jalkanen:

http://www.biocity.turku.fi/fileadmin/Page_files/biocity/receptor_program/Jalkanen_Cell_Trafficking.pdf ,

http://www.turkusciencepark.com/en/spark-news/1074/academy-professor-sirpa-jalkanen-follows-movement-cells/ ,

http://www.fimm.fi/en/research/nationalnetwork/principal_investigator_sirpa_jalkanen/

 

Cormac Taylor:

http://www.ucd.ie/conway/research/researchers/conwayfellowsa-z/professorcormactaylor/#d.en.50863

 

Stefan Rose-John:

http://www.uni-kiel.de/Biochemie/unterverzeichnisse/rose.html

 

Ariel Gomez:

http://research.med.virginia.edu/pcen/investigators/r-ariel-gomez-m-d/

 

Maria L.S. Sequeira-Lopez:

http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Author/18355971/maria-luisa-s-sequeira-lopez

 

Lydia Sorokin:

http://campus.uni-muenster.de/4704.html

 

Marie Malissen:

http://www.ciml.univ-mrs.fr/science/lab-bernard-marie-malissen/beginners

 

 

 

 

 

Kind Regards,

Ritva

 

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Ritva Saastamoinen, PhD, Docent

Biocenter Oulu Doctoral Programme Coordinator

Adjunct associate professor

 

Biocenter Oulu

PL 5000 (Aapistie 5a)

FIN-90014 University of Oulu, Finland

 

Tel: (+358) 0294 48 6102

ritva.saastamoinen(at)oulu.fi 

http://www.oulu.fi/biocenter/doctoral-programme

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