Institute for Biomedical Aging Research of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Coeur Defense Conference Center, Paris, France
September 4 - 5, 2006
“AGING RESEARCH IN IMMUNOLOGY: THE IMPACT OF GENOMICS”
MONDAY, September 4. 2006
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SESSION I: Research on aging in the era of genomics 8:45 Welcome Speech 9:00 Genetic approaches to the study of aging
Richard A. MILLER, Ann Arbor, MI 9:30 Genetics and gene expression patterns in centenarians
Claudio FRANCESCHI, Bologna, I 10:00 The future of aging therapies in the era of genomics
Richard J. HODES, Bethesda, MD
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10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
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SESSION II: Post pathogen immunity and aging: the innate immune system 11:00 Stress responses, neutrophils and aging
Janet M. LORD, Birmingham, UK 11:30 Estrogens and macrophage aging
Elizabeth KOVACS, Maywood, IL 12:00 NK T cells and aging
Rafael SOLANA, Cordoba, E 12:30 Dendritic cells in human aging
Sudhir GUPTA, Irvine, CA 13:00 Type I interferons and immunity in old age
Donna MURASKO, Philadelphia, PA
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13:30-14:30 Sandwich lunch
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SESSION III: Post pathogen immunity and aging: the adaptive immune system I 14:30 Gene expression characteristics of CD28null memory phenotype CD8+ T cells and its
implications in T cell aging
Nan-Ping WENG, Baltimore, MD 15:00 Loss of co stimulation during aging
Arne AKBAR, London, UK 15:30 T cell development and receptor diversity during aging
Jorg J. GORONZY, Atlanta, GA 16:00 CD8+ memory T cell responsiveness in old age
Beatrix GRUBECK-LOEBENSTEIN, Innsbruck, A
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16:30-17:00 Coffee Break
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SESSION IV: Post pathogen immunity and aging: the adaptive immune system II 17:00 Accelerated immune senescence and HIV
Victor APPAY, Paris, F 17:30 CMV-mediated T cell responses and aging
Graham PAWELEC, Tübingen, D 18:00 Protective immunity to influenza
David L. WOODLAND, Saranac Lake, NY 18:30 Protective immunity to pneumococci
David GOLDBLATT, London, UK
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________ Welcome Reception
19:00-20:00
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“AGEING RESEARCH IN IMMUNOLOGY: THE IMPACT OF GENOMICS”
TUESDAY, September 5. 2006
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SESSION V: Homeostatic regulation of immunity in old age
9:00 B cells and aging: homeostatic events
Michael P. CANCRO, Philadelphia, PA 9:30 B cell aging: a problem of lymphopoesis, homeostasis, microenvironment and signalling
John CAMBIER, Denver, CO
10:00 T cells and aging: homeostatic events
Philippa MARRACK, Denver, CO 10:30 T cell turnover in old age
Peter C.L. BEVERLEY, Berkshire, UK _______________________________________________________________________________________________________
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break
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SESSION VI: Vaccinations in old age 11:30 Immunological insights from genetic vaccines
Hildegund C.J. ERTL, Philadelphia, PA 12:00 Antigenome technology for the selection of bacterial vaccine candidates
Eszter NAGY, Vienna, A
12:30 How can vaccines work on the background of the aging immune system?
Laura HAYNES, Saranac Lake, NY 13:00 Cancer vaccines in old age
Claudia GRAVEKAMP, San Antonio, TX
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13:30-14:30 Sandwich lunch
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________ 14:30 Student Poster Sessions 15:30 Oral presentations of the four best student posters
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SESSION VII: Immunological interventions to prevent/reverse immunosenescence 16:30 Stem cells and aging
Derrick ROSSI, Stanford, CA 17:00 Lymphocyte Development and Aging
Ken DORSHKIND, Los Angeles, CA 17:30 Regulation of TLR expression – implication for vaccination
Hans-Gustaf LJUNGGREN, Stockholm, S 18:00 Telomerase induction in T cells: a cure for aging and disease?
Rita B. EFFROS, Los Angeles, CA
18:30 Gene expression profiling in macaques on caloric restriction
Janko NIKOLICH-ZUGICH, Beaverton, OR
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Wine and Cheese Party
19:00-20:00
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