CIMT meets SFIT 2007, Hofstuben Convention Center at Fortress Marienburg (Wuerzburg, Germany)
2007-04-12 to 2007-04-14
Day 1 (12th April 2007) 8:30-8:45 Welcoming Address Keynote Lectures 08:45-09:30 Harald zur Hausen (Heidelberg) Infections and cancer: novel modes of cancer prevention 09:30-10:15 Fritz Melchers (Basel) Bone marrow transplantation revised 10:15-10:45 Coffee Break
Session 1: Defenses against Infectious Pathogens 10:45-11:25 Tom Aebischer (Edinburgh) Helicobacter pylori: An update on vaccine development and correlates of immunity 11:25-12:05 Antonio Coutinho (Oeiras) To be announced 12:05-12:45 Gillis R. Otten (Emeryville) To be announced 13:00-14:15 Lunch Break Poster Session I 14:15-15:45 Guided Poster Session & Coffee
Session 2: Biotech boosts Tumorimmunology 16:00-16:30 Özlem Türeci (Ganymed, Mainz) Novel antibody therapeutics for solid cancers 16:30-17:00 Marlies Sproll (Morphosys, Martinsried) Human monoclonal antibodies for therapy 17:00-17:30 Mark Krul (Isa Pharmaceuticals, Leiden) The benefits of biomedical venturing Day 2 (13th April 2007) Session 3: Tumor Vaccines 08:30-09:10 Hans-Georg Rammensee (Tübingen) Tumor-associated peptides for individualized vaccination 09:10-09:50 Christian Ottensmeier (Southampton) DNA fusion vaccines against prostate cancer: from the bench to the bedside 09:50-10:30 Pramod Srivastava (Farmington) gp96-peptide complexes for immunotherapy of stage IV melanoma and adjuvant renal cell carcinoma 10:30-11:00 Coffee Break 11:00-11:40 Yvonne Paterson (Philadelphia) Listeria based vaccines for breast and cervical cancer Session 4: Effector Mechanisms in Antibody Based Cancer Therapy 11:40-12:20 Jeffrey V. Ravetch (New York) Antibodies and their receptors: linking innate and adaptive immunity 12:20-13:00 George Weiner (Iowa City) Complement and cellular cytotoxicity in antibody therapy of cancer 13:00-14:00 Lunch Break Poster Session II 14:00-15:30 Guided Poster Session & Coffee Session 4 (cont.): Effector Mechanisms in Antibody Based Cancer Therapy 15:30-16:10 Dario Neri (Zurich) Antibody-based vascular tumor targeting: from the bench to the clinic 16:10-16:50 Manuel L. Penichet (Los Angeles) Antibody-cytokine fusion proteins: applications in cancer therapy Session 5: Development of Immunity 16:50-17:30 Harald von Boehmer (Boston) Foxp3 positive Treg: generation, lifestyle and function 20:00 Dinner at ”Fürstensaal Residenz Würzburg”
Day 3 (14th April 2007) Session 5 (cont.): Development of Immunity
8:30-9:10 Bruno Kyewski (Heidelberg) How promiscuity promotes tolerance 9:10-9:50 Sjoerd H. van der Burg (Leiden) Tumor-specific T-regulatory cells in tumor-specific vaccination strategies 9:50-10:30 Thomas Boehm (Freiburg) Quality strategies in self/non-self discrimination 10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
Session 6: Host-pathogen Interactions
11:00-11:40 Jörg Hacker (Würzburg) Host - microbe interactions in the gastrointestinal tract: Escherichia coli as an example 11:40-12:30 Vincenzo Bronte (Padua) Myeloid-derived suppressor cells in cancer: a novel target for therapeutic invention 12:30-13:10 Emmanuel Lemichez (Nice) Uropathogenic E. coli CNF1 toxin molecular mechanism of action and application in vaccinology 13:10-13:50 Dirk Bumann (Hannover) System-level analysis of Salmonella-host interactions 13:50-14:30 Lunch Break Satellite Session: CIMT Monitoring Panel 14:30 – 15:00: Andreas Thiel (Berlin) Direct access to CD4 T cells specific for defined antigens according to CD154 expression 15:00 – 15:30: Helmut M. Diepolder (Munich) HLA class II tetramers for enumeration and phenotyping of hepatitis C virus specific CD4+ T cells 15:30 – 16:00: Cedrik M. Britten (Leiden) Lessons learned from interlaboratory testing in phases I/2005 and II/2006” 16:00 – 16:15: Announcement of new panel activities and inter-laboratory testing projects 16:15 – 16:45 Round table discussion
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