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Keystone Symposia, Copper Mountain, Colorado
January 20 - 24, 2007
Mast cells, basophils, and IgE form a strongly conserved interface between innate and adaptive mucosal immune systems. Each cell is a sensitive detector of environmental perturbations, to which they respond by generating and releasing a distinctive profile of mediators. The development of progressively more sophisticated experimental models has permitted the recognition of clear-cut and novel functions for mast cells and basophils in mediating effector cell recruitment, facilitating antigen presentation, inducing and amplifying immune responses, and modulating host responses in disease models. This program will focus on new aspects of development and trafficking of both cell lineages, homeostatic controls of cell activation, in-depth examination of mast cell and basophil-derived mediators, the roles of these cells in both allergic (IgE-mediated) and non-allergic disease, and therapeutic modulation of their roles in both mouse models and human disease.
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Organized by:
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Joshua A. Boyce, K. Frank Austen, Jean S. Marshall and William E. Paul |
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Invited Speakers:
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- Koichi Akashi, Dana Farber Cancer Institute
- K. Austen, Harvard Medical School
- A. Dean Befus, University of Alberta
- David Beier, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School
- Joshua Boyce, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School
- Melissa Brown, Northwestern University
- Marc Daeron, Institut Pasteur
- Stephen Galli, Stanford University
- Erwin Gelfand, National Jewish Medical and Research Center
- Michael Gurish, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School
- Hajime Karasuyama, Tokyo Medical and Dental University
- Tatsuki Kataoka, Osaka University
- Matthias Mack, University of Regensburg
- Jean Marshall, Dalhousie University
- Marcus Maurer, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
- William Paul, National Institutes of Health
- Gunnar Pejler, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
- Anjana Rao, Harvard Medical School
- Ehud Razin, Hebrew University - Hadassah Medical School
- Juan Rivera, NIAMS, National Institutes of Health
- Sarah Spiegel, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine
- Richard Stevens, Brigham and Women's Hospital
- Charlotte Weller, Imperial College London
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Deadline for Abstracts:
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Sept. 20, 2006
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Registration:
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Please see website
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E-mail:
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info@keystonesymposia.org
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