North East Immunology - Autoimmunity Affinity Group
Joint Meeting on 5–6 June 2007
The Centre for Life Conference Suite,
Immune Recognition in Autoimmune Disease
A Symposium to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the British Society for Immunology and the 30th Anniversary of the North East Immunology Group
Tuesday 5 June 2007
12.00 Check in, registration and lunch
14.00 Welcome address by the organisers: John Robinson, Andrew Knight and John Goodacre
Keynote Lecture
14.05 Christophe Benoist (Harvard) Tolerance and Autoimmunity
Session 1 Chairpersons: Andrew Knight and David Jones
14.45 Luke O'Neill (Dublin
15.30 Tea break
16.00 Mark Mamula (Yale) Trafficking of autoantigens in disease: New Roles for B cells and DCs
16.45 Rikard Holmdahl (Lund
17.30 Poster session
19.00 Conference dinner
Wednesday 6 June 2007
Session 2 Chairpersons: John Kirby and Colin Brooks
9.00 John Robinson (Newcastle
9.30-10.15 3 short talks selected from submitted abstracts
10.15 Sonia Quaratino (Southampton ) T cell receptor degeneracy in autoimmunity
11.00 Coffee break
Session 3 chairpersons: John Goodacre and Adam Benham
11.30 Julian Dyson (London
12.15 Willem van Eden (Utrecht
13.00 Steve Anderton (Edinburgh
13.45 Closing remarks by the organisers
Please note that local delegates are required to register [only £45 for full time students £55 for BSI members £65 for non BSI members]. For details of how to register and submit abstracts, please access the North East Immunology Group meetings page via the ‘In Your Area’ interface on the BSI website: http://www.immunology.org/meetings_inyourarea_northeast.php
