Joint Annual Meeting of Immunology of the Austrian and German Societies  (ÖGAI, DGfI)   Austrian Society for allergology and Immunology (ÖGAI)   Germany Society of Immunology (DGfI)
           
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Wednesday, September 3, 2008
15.00 - 15.10
 
Welcome
15.10 - 15.25 Historical Introduction on Landsteiner (Gabriela Schmidt-Wyklicky)
15.25 - 15.45 Awarding of the Landsteiner Price of the DGfI to Max Cooper
Laudatio: Andreas Radbruch
Award Lecture: Max Cooper
15.45 - 16.05 Awarding of the Landsteiner Medal of the ÖGAI to Ron Germain
Laudatio: Clemens Scheinecker
Award Lecture: Ron Germain
The Vienna Philharmonic
16.20 - 16.50
 
Keynote Lecture: Nobel laureate Peter Doherty (Australia)
The Vienna Philharmonic
17.00
 
Opening by Wolfgang Schütz (Rector of the Medical University of Vienna)
followed by Opening Drinks
 

 

Thursday, September 4, 2008
08.15 - 09.30
 
Parallel Symposia I:
 
T-CELL SIGNALING INNATE IMMUNITY: ANTIGEN-
PRESENTING-CELLS
TUMOR IMMUNOLOGY
Molecular determinants of Inside-out signaling in T-cells DC dependent maintenance of peripheral regulatory T-cells Human Self/Tumor Antigens and Tumor Immunosurveillance
Burkhard Schraven Stefan Beissert Olivera J. Finn
From T cell activation signals to
signaling control of anti-cancer
immunity
Role of antimicrobial peptides in
triggering autoimmunity
The immune response to sporadic cancer
Josef Penninger Michel Gilliet Thomas Blankenstein
Deciphering TCR ligand discrimination by combining experiments, computer modeling, and predictive simulations TLR-activated dendritic cells as effector cells of the immune response Development of DNA vaccination
strategies for pediatric cancers
Ronald N. Germain Georg Stingl Holger N. Lode
 
 
09.30 - 10.30 Break + Poster Viewing
10.30 - 12.15 Workshops I (5 parallel)
Lecture Hall 1 Lecture Hall 2 Lecture Hall 3 Lecture Hall 4 Lecture Hall 5
T-Lymphocytes 1 Autoimmunity 1 Tumor Immunology Immuno-
modulation
Innate Immunity: Antigen-Presenting Cells
 
12.15 - 13.45 Lunch Symposium:
Roche
B cells: Promising targets in autoimmune diseases (Invitation PDF 153KB)
14.00 - 15.30 Workshops II (5 parallel)
Lecture Hall 1 Lecture Hall 2 Lecture Hall 3 Lecture Hall 4 Lecture Hall 5
T-Lymphocytes II Vaccines & Adjuvants Signal Transduction NK cells Veterinary Immunology
 
15.30 - 16.30 Break + Poster viewing
16.45 - 18.00   Parallel Symposia II:
 
VACCINATION IN VIVO IMAGING IMMUNOMODULATION
Delineation of plasmablast characteristics generated in steady-state and in
systemic immune responses
The In Situ Dynamics of Innate and Adaptive Immune Cell Behavior Revealed By Intravital
ultiphotonmMicroscopy
Probing Dendritic cell In vivo Functions
Henrik Mei Ronald N. Germain Steffen Jung
Towards a coronavirus- based multigene vaccine platform In vivo imaging of Germinal Center B Cells Tec kinases in T cell activation and function
Burkhard Ludewig Anja Erika Hauser Leslie J. Berg
Modulating Vaccine Responses with Innate Immunity Non-invasive imaging of inflammation - the quest for specificity Inducible Foxp3-dependent or
-independent human CD4+ regulatory T Cells.
Bali Pulendran Andreas Wunder Rosa Bacchetta
 
 
19.00 Welcome Reception at the Vienna City Hall
 

 

Friday, September 5, 2008
08.15 - 09.30
 
Parallel Symposia I:
 
MUCOSAL INFLAMMATION INNATE IMMUNITY: REGULATION TRANSPLANTATION
Role of epithelial barrier function in allergy Innate resistance, inflammation, and cancer Antibody-mediated transplant rejection
Per Brandtzaeg Giorgio Trinchieri Georg Böhmig
A prominent role for mucosal
cystine/cysteine metabolism in
intestinal immunoregulation
Interferon regulatory factors and innate immunity in early life Immune monitoring and therapy in transplantation - from bench-to -bedside
Stefan Meuer Michel Goldman Hans Dieter Volk
Tumor Necrosis Factor and the
consequences of its ablation in vivo
The mammalian target of rapamycin and innate immunity Tolerance through mixed chimerism: how close to clinical application is it?
Sergei Nedospasov
Thomas Weichhart Thomas Wekerle
 
09.30 - 10.30 Break + Poster viewing
10.30 - 12.15 Workshops I (5 parallel)
Lecture Hall 1 Lecture Hall 2 Lecture Hall 3 Lecture Hall 4 Lecture Hall 5
Allergy I Regulatory
Lymphocytes I
Alloimmunity &
Tolerance
Pattern Recognition Receptors & Myeloid Cells Innate Immunity: Regulation
 
 
 
12.15 - 13.45 Lunch Symposium:
octapharma
Immune modulation with intravenous immunoglobulin: the established
and the advances (Invitation PDF 63KB)
13.00 - 13.45 Drittmittelförderung der DFG: Kriterien für eine erfolgreiche Antragstellung, Andreas Strecker (Germany)
14.00 - 15.30 Workshops II (5 parallel)
Lecture Hall 1 Lecture Hall 2 Lecture Hall 3 Lecture Hall 4 Lecture Hall 5
Infection I Allergy II Regulatory Lymphocytes II Mucosal Immunity B-Lymphocytes
 
15.30 - 16.30 Break + Poster viewing
16.45 - 18.00 Parallel Symposia II:
 
ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY:
REGULATION
ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY: B-CELLS INFECTION
Innate and adaptive IL-17 in the control of immune responses Transcriptional control of B cell
development
Origin of CD8+ effector and memory T cell subsets
Brigitta Stockinger Meinrad Busslinger Dirk H. Busch
Autoregulatory circuits in inflammatory T cell responses Memory B cell sub-populations Mutual host pathogen reactions in tuberculosis
Alexander Scheffold Jean Claude Weill Ulrich Schaible
Innate Immunity in regulation of antibody mediated inflammation
Plasma cell memory Innate immune response to
pneumococcal pneumonia
Reinhold E. Schmidt Andreas Radbruch Sylvia Knapp
 
18.00 - 19.30 General Assembly DGfI
19.30 Departure with buses to the Viennese "Heuriger" Fuhrgassl-Huber
 

 

Saturday, September 6, 2008
08.45 - 10.00
 
Parallel Symposia I:
 
INFLAMMATION AUTOIMMUNITY ALLERGY
Mechanisms of inflammatory bone destruction The life history of an autoimmune driver clone Human Th17 cells
Kurt Redlich Eli Sercarz Sergio Romagnani
Novel cytokines in inflammatory
diseases
Immunopathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis: induction of arthritogenic autoimmune reactions by proinflammatory stimuli New facets in mast cell activation
Foo Y Liew Günther Steiner Bulfone-Paus S.
IL-17 and kynurenines in pathogenic inflammation Modeling multiple sclerosis:autoimmune T and B cells in the pathogenesis of the brain inflammatory disease From allergens to vaccines
Luigina Romani Hartmut Wekerle Rudolf Valenta
 
10.00 - 10.30 Break
10.30 - 12.15 Workshop (4 parallel)
Lecture Hall 2 Lecture Hall 3 Lecture Hall 4 Lecture Hall 5
Autoimmunity II Infection II Complement System Cytokines, Chemokines & their receptors
 
10.30 - 12.45 Lunch Symposium:
Phadia
Vom rekombinanten Allergen zu neuen Allergietherapien (Invitation PDF 266KB)
12.45 - 13.00 Break
13.00 - 13.45 Klinische Fälle aus der Allergologie: Wie hätten Sie entschieden?
14.00 - 14.30 Best Poster Awards
15.00 General Assembly ÖGAI

 

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