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Important dates

Registration

Standard fees until
15 September 2011.

Abstracts

Submission deadline:
1 October 2011.

Awards

Young Investigator Award
Thesis Award
Jacques Oudin Award

Sponsors and exhibitors


Sponsors and exhibitors list

Contacts

Scientific secretariat

French Society for Immunology
Mrs Florence Jambou
+33 (0)1 45 66 85 97

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624, rue des Grèzes
34070 Montpellier
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Detailed program


08:00
Registration  
08:30
Introduction / Welcome
Pasteur Room

8:45 - 10:15
PLENARY SESSION - Innate immunity
Pasteur Room Marc Dalod, Florence Apparailly - Chairs
8:45
Host-microbiota immune homeostasis as a critical determinant of the intestinal barrier
Emma Slack - Universität Bern, Switzerland
9:15
Mucosal associated invariant T (MAIT) lymphocytes: an evolutionarily conserved subset with anti-bacterial activity
Olivier Lantz - Institut Curie, Paris, France
9:45
Stress pathways promoting inflammation
Fabio Martinon - Université de Lausanne, Epalinges, Switzerland

10:15 - 10:45
Coffee break / Visit of exhibition area  

10:45 - 11:15 
Poster sessions

11:15 - 12:45 
THEMATIC SESSIONS

Pasteur Room Immunologic reconstitution
Pierre Corbeau, Isabelle André-Schmutz - Chairs
11:15
Reconstitution immunitaire après traitement de l'infection par le virus de l'immunodéficience humaine
Pierre Corbeau - Hôpital Saint-Eloi, Montpellier, France
Immune reconstitution after Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation
Isabelle André-Schmutz - Inserm U768, Hôpital Necker, Paris, France

Selected presentations from submitted abstracts

Rondelet Room Immune activation and tumorigenesis
Nadège Bercovici, François Ghiringhelli - Chairs
11:15
Early T cell signalling is reversibly altered in PD1+ tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes: how could the immune system contribute to tumor regression?
Nadège Bercovici - Inserm U567, Hôpital Cochin, Paris, France
The role of immune infiltrate in human breast cancer
François Ghiringhelli - Inserm, CRI866, Dijon, France

Selected presentations from submitted abstracts

Barthez Room Neuroimmunology
Burkhard Becher, Sylvain Fisson - Chairs
11:15
Introduction
Sylvain Fisson - Inserm UMRS 872, Centre Biomédical des Cordeliers, Paris, France
T cell polarization and effector cytokines in autoimmunity
Burkhard Becher - University Hospital of Zurich, Switzerland
Selected presentations from submitted abstracts

12:45 - 14:00
Lunch / Visit of exhibition area

14:00 - 15:30 
PLENARY SESSION - Lymphocyte development
Pasteur Room Sophie Ezine, Sandrina Kinet - Chairs
14:00
Dissecting the human T cell response to microbes
Frederica Sallusto - Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Bellinzona, Switzerland

 Delta-like4/Notch regulates inflammatory T cell self control
Alexander Scheffold - Miltenyi Biotec GmbH, Bergisch Gladbach, Germany
Production and role of IL-22 in TLR-triggered inflammatory processes
Jean-Christophe Renauld - Université de Louvain, Belgium

15:30 - 16:00
Coffee break / Visit of exhibition area

16:00 - 16:30 
Poster sessions

16:30 - 18:00 
THEMATIC SESSIONS

Pasteur Room Tolerance and autoimmunity
Benoît Salomon, Julien Diana - Chairs
16:30
Inflammation is a driving force to boost regulatory T cells
Benoît Salomon - CNRS, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France
 
Viral infection prevents type 1 diabetes through NKT-pDC crosstalks
Julien Diana - Inserm U986, Hôpital Saint-Vincent de Paul, Paris, France
Selected presentations from submitted abstracts

Rondelet Room Immune responses associated with gene therapy
Anne Galy, Gilles Marodon - Chairs
16:30
Mechanisms of immunization by gene transfer: Complex innate immune responses and antigenic presentation following administration of rAAV
Anne Galy - Inserm, Genethon, France
Selected presentations from submitted abstracts

Barthez Room Therapeutic antibodies
Hervé Watier, Mireia Pelegrin - Chairs
16:30
IMGT-ONTOLOGY for immunoglobulin or antibody, T cell receptor and major histocompatibility: IG/Ag and TR/pMH interactions
Marie-Paule Lefranc - IMGT, Institut de Génétique Humaine, Montpellier, France
Issues and challenges in the preclinical and clinical development of monoclonals
Hervé Watier - Université et CHRU, CNRS GDR 3260, Tours, France
The specificities and functions of human monoclonal antibodies against respiratory viruses
Hergen Spits - Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Glycosylation of antibody therapeutics: a Critical Quality Attribute (CQA)
Roy Jefferis - University of Birmingham, UK

18:00 - 18:10
SFI - ImmunID Poster Award
Pasteur Room    
18:10 - 18:50
General Assembly of the SFI / Visit of exhibition area
Pasteur Room  
18:50 - 19:15
SFI - Miltenyi Young Investigator Award
Pasteur Room  
18:50 - 19:15
General Assembly of the ASSIM
Rondelet Room  

19:15
Cocktail  

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8:45 - 10:15
PLENARY SESSION - Basic principles of anti-infectious immunity
Pasteur Room Pierre Galanaud, Paul Guglielmi - Chairs
8:45
Deconvoluting CD8 T cell efficacy against HIV: from phenotype to clonotype
Victor Appay - Inserm, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France

9:15
Host-pathogen interactions in tuberculosis
Olivier Neyrolles - Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France
9:45
On the genetic architecture of infectious diseases
Alexandre Alcaïs - Inserm, Faculté de Médecine Necker, Paris, France

10:15 - 10:45
Coffee break / Visit of exhibition area  

10:45 - 11:15 
Poster sessions

11:15 - 12:45
THEMATIC SESSIONS

Pasteur Room Lymphocyte subsets
Naomi Taylor, Julien Marie - Chairs
11:15
Fueling T cell development and activation: Role of glucose metabolism
Naomi Taylor - CNRS, Institut de Génétique Moléculaire de Montpellier, France
 
TGF-beta: a cytokine that fine tunes T cell-subset differentiation
  Julien Marie - CRCL - Cancer Research Center of Lyon, Lyon, France
Selected presentations from submitted abstracts

Rondelet Room Innate immunity I / Auto-inflammation
Isabelle Touitou, Seth Masters - Chairs
11:15
Activation and inhibition of the inflammasome
Seth Masters - Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
Selected presentations from submitted abstracts

Barthez Room Immunomodulatory properties of blood-feeding arthropod saliva - Session IRD-SFI
Jesus G. Valenzuela, Dorothée Missé - Chairs
11:15
introduction
Dorothée Missé - IRD, Montpellier, France

 
Impact of immune response to sand fly salivary proteins in leishmaniasis
Jesus G. Valenzuela - National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA
Selected presentations from submitted abstracts

12:45 - 13:45
Lunch / Visit of exhibition area

13:45 - 14:00
SFI-BD Biosciences Thesis Award
Pasteur Room  

14:00 - 15:30
FMC Session
Rondelet Room Joana Vitte - Chair
14:00
Allergènes recombinants (moléculaires)
Sylvie Chollet-Martin - Hôpital Bichat, Paris, France

 Tests d’immunologie cellulaire
Paul Rouzaire - CHU de Lyon, France
Diagnostic des angioedèmes
Christian Drouet - CHU de Grenoble, France  

14:00 - 16:00
Session SEI-SFI
Pasteur Room Dolores Jaraquemada, Roland Liblau - Chairs
14:00
Stimulating CD137 (4-1BB) for cancer treatment
Ignacio Melero - Center for Applied Medical Research, University of Navarra, Spain

 Redundant and specialized roles of Ras GTPases in lymphoid differentiation, homeostasis and malignant transformation
Balbino Alarcon - Center for Molecular Biology Severo Ochoa, Madrid, Spain
The role of a regulated endosomal storage compartment in MHC class I cross-presentation
Peter van Endert - Inserm, Faculté de Médecine Necker, Paris, France
Building the signaling capacity of the immunological synapse by regulated vesicle traffic
Andrès Alcover - Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

16:00 - 16:30
Coffee break / Visit of exhibition area

16:30 - 18:00
Autoimmunity
Pasteur Room Eliane Piaggio, Olivier Boyer - Chairs
16:30
Role of beta cells and insulin in type 1 diabetes
Christian Boitard - Inserm, Paris, France

 Aire: from patients to a molecular mechanism
Diane Mathis - Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
From Gut to Brain: The Initial Stages of Autoimmune Brain Disease
Hartmut Wekerle - Max Planck Institute for Neurobiology, Martinsried, Germany

16:30 - 18:00
Veterinary Session
Rondelet Room Isabelle Oswald, Gilles Foucras - Chairs
16:30
Novel aspects of porcine NK cells and T cells
  Armin Saalmüller - University of Veterinary Medicine of Vienna, Austria
   
 
Selected presentations from selected abstracts
 
18:00 - 18:10
SFI - ImmunID Poster Award 
Pasteur Room    
18:10 - 19:10
PLENARY SESSION - Pierre Grabar Lecture
Pasteur Room
 The Mammalian Stress Sensor XBP1 in immunity
Laurie Glimcher - Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, USA

20:15
Gala Dinner  

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8:45 - 10:15
PLENARY SESSION - Session SFA - SFI Allergology I
Pasteur Room Antoine Magnan, Valérie Julia - Chairs
8:45
Recombinant mite allergens for diagnosis and immunotherapy
Suzanne Vrtala - University of Vienna, Medical School, Austria

9:15
Dendritic cells in atopic diseases: Two sides of one coin
Thomas Bieber - University of Bonn, Germany

9:45
Skin TSLP in allergic immune responses: from atopic dermatitis to asthma
Mei Li - Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, Strasbourg, France

10:15 - 10:45
Coffee break / Visit of exhibition area  

10:45 - 11:15 
Poster sessions

11:15 - 12:45
THEMATIC SESSIONS

Pasteur Room Session SFA-SFI Allergology II
Marc Daëron, Hans Yssel - Chairs
11:15
IgG receptors in allergy
Marc Daëron - Inserm, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
Selected presentations from submitted abstracts

Rondelet Room Anti-tumor immunotherapy
Yolanda de Vries, Jérôme Galon - Chairs
11:15
Plasmacytoid dendritic cells: Immunomodulatory properties and therapeutic application in melanoma patients
Yolanda de Vries - Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
 
Immune contexture: a novel paradigm for cancer
  Jérôme Galon - Inserm U872, Centre Biomédical des Cordeliers, Paris, France
Selected presentations from submitted abstracts

Barthez Room Mucosal immunity
Nadine Cerf-Bensussan, Patrick Brest - Chairs
11:15
IL-15-dependent NKp46+ cells control intestinal inflammation via CCL3-CCR1- dependent recruitment of inflammatory monocytes
Nadine Cerf-Bensussan - Inserm, Faculté de Médecine Necker, Paris, France
 
A synonymous variant in IRGM alters a binding site for miR-196 and causes deregulation of IRGM-dependent xenophagy in Crohn's disease
  Patrick Brest – Inserm ERI-21, EA4319, Nice, France
Selected presentations from submitted abstracts

12:45 - 13:45
Lunch / Visit of exhibition area

13:45 - 14:15
LFB-SFI Jacques Oudin Award
Pasteur Room Jean-François Prost, Roland Liblau - Chairs

14:15 - 15:45
PLENARY SESSION - Anti-tumor immunity
Pasteur Room Jean-Luc Teillaud, Thierry Chardès - Chairs
14:15
Treg and TH17 in health and cancer
Danila Valmori - Inserm, Institut de Recherche Thérapeutique, Nantes, France

 State of art of therapeutic vaccination in patients with viral and non-viral cancer
Cornelis Melief - Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
Development of cancer immunotherapies: lessons from maternal-fetal tolerance
David Klatzmann - Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Hôpital La Pitié-Salpétrière, Paris, France

15:45 - 16:30
Coffee break / Poster sessions / Visit of exhibition area

16:30 - 18:00
THEMATIC SESSIONS

Pasteur Room Innate immunity II / Mastocytes, granulocytes
Clemens Dahinden, Nicolas Charles - Chairs
16:30
Inflammatory and immunoregulatory functions of human basophil granulocytes
Clemens Dahinden - University Hospital Bern, Switzerland

 
Basophils and autoimmunity: Making sense of IgE in lupus
  Nicolas Charles - Inserm E-0225, Faculté de Médecine X. Bichat, Paris France
Selected presentations from submitted abstracts

Rondelet Room Chronic viroses
Daniel Pinschewer, Nicolas Manel - Chairs
16:30
Immunity and pathogenesis in viral infection
Daniel Pinschewer - Faculté de Médecine, Geneva, Switzerland
 
Regulation of the innate immune response to HIV-1 in dendritic cells
  Nicolas Manel - Inserm U932, Institut Curie, Paris, France
Selected presentations from submitted abstracts

Barthez Room Rheumatoid arthritis
Christian Jorgensen, Jean Roudier - Chairs
16:30
IgE, ACPA and RA; how do they connect?
René Toes - Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
Title to be confirmed
  Jean Roudier - Inserm, Université de la Méditerranée, Marseille, France
Selected presentations from submitted abstracts

18:00 - 18:10
SFI - ImmunID Poster Award
Pasteur Room    

18:10
Meeting closure

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