XXXI Congresso Brasileiro de Imunologia
XXXI Meeting of Brazilian Society for Immunology
October, 21-25, 2006
EXTRA SECTION OF CLINICAL IMMUNOLOGY
October, 21-22, 2006
ESCI-SBI2006
October 21, Saturday
08:30 – 09:00am
Opening. Gustavo P. Amarante-Mendes. President SBI 2006
Luiz Werber-Bandeira. President ESCI 2006
09:00-11:00am
MUCOSAL IMMUNITY, TOLERANCE & MUCOSAL IMMUNIZATION
Chairpersons: Momtchilo Russo & Aderbal Sabrá
1. Momtchilo Russo (USP-ICB). “Airway Tolerance in Asthma Model”
2. José Roberto Lapa e Silva (UFRJ). “Airway Remodeling”
3. Ana Maria Caetano de Faria (UFMG-ICB). “Tolerance and Inflammation in the gastro-intestinal mucosa”
4. Aderbal Sabrá (UNIGRANRIO). “Cytokines Profiles in Patients with Food Allergy”
COFFEE BREAK
11:30 – 12:30pm
MUCOSAL IMMUNIZATION: APPLICATION TO INFECTION DISEASES OF MUCOSAL VACCINES
Chairperson: Aderbal Sabrá
Joseph Bellanti (Georgetown University-Medical Center).
12:30 – 12:45pm
QUESTIONS
12:45 – 02:00pm
LUNCH
02:00 – 03:25pm
IMMUNOMODULATION & AUTOIMMUNITY
Chairperson: Jorge Kalil
1. Vivian Rumjanek (UFRJ). “Regulation of the immune response by the cardiac glycoside ouabain”
2. Sergio A. Lira (Mount Sinai School of Medicine). “Novel insights into the role of chemokines in autoimmune thyroiditis”
3. Luiza Guilherme (InCor-USP). “Rheumatic fever: from innate to acquired immune response”
03:25 – 03:40pm
QUESTIONS
COFFEE BREAK
04:00 – 05:10pm
OCULAR IMMUNITY
Chairperson: Luiz Vicente Rizzo
1. Rubens Belfort Jr (UNIFESP). “Autoimmune uveitis: Diagnosis and treatment”
2. Adriana Lima Vallochi (FURGS). “Ocular Toxoplasmosis:The role of the immune response in resistance and susceptibility”
3. Alessandra G. Commodaro (ICB-USP).”Immunotherapy of Experimental Autoimmune Uveitis”
05:10 – 05:25pm
QUESTIONS
October 22, 2006
09:00 – 10:25am
STEM CELL, CELL THERAPY & IMMUNE PROTECTION
Chairperson: Luiz Werber-Bandeira
1. José Marcos Telles da Cunha (UFRJ). “Stem cell transplantation in Immunodeficiencies”
2. Hans Fernando Dohman (Procep-Procardiaco-RJ). “Stem cell therapy in clinical practice”
3. Radovan Borojevic (UFRJ). “Cell therapy: perspectives and realities”
10:25 – 10:35am
QUESTIONS
COFFE BREAK
11:00 – 11:50am
TOLL RECEPTORS:
MEDIATORS OF INFLAMMATION, IMMUNE PROTECTION AND DISEASE
Chairperson: Luiz Werber-Bandeira
DOUGLAS GOLENBOCK (University of Massachusetts)
11:50 – 12:00pm
QUESTIONS
LUNCH
01:00 – 02:10pm
COMPLEMENT AND HUMAN DISEASES
Chairperson: Lourdes Isaac
1. Pilar Sanchez-Corral (Hosp. Univers. La Paz). “The Complement System in the Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome”
2. Denise Vilarinho Tambourgi (Instituto Butantan-SP). “Complement and loxoscelism”
3. Lourdes Isaac (ICB-USP). “Human complement deficiencies”
02:10 – 02:20pm
QUESTIONS
COFFEE BREAK
02:35 – 04:10pm
SKIN, IMMUNE RESPONSE & VACCINE (Chairperson: Abílio Motta)
1. Valéria Aoki (FMUSP). “Pênfigo Foliáceo Endêmico: Influência Ambiental na Auto-Imunidade”
2. Denise Steiner (Universidade Mogi das Cruzes). “Imunologia do Vitiligo e da Alopécia Areata”
3. Abilio Motta (HC-FMUSP). “Testes epicutâneos (punctura e de contato) e resposta linfoproliferativa com ácaros domiciliares em pacientes com dermatite atópica”
4. Omar Lupi (UFRJ). “Antiherpetic Vaccines – From Molecular Biology to the Clinical Trials”
04:10 – 04:20pm
QUESTIONS
COFFEE BREAK
04:35 – 05:45pm
HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL & STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION
Chairperson: Adriana Bonomo
1. Daniel Tabak (INCA). “Hematopoetic Stem cell Transplantation: an Overview”
2. Adriana Bonomo (INCA). “Acute Graft Versus Host disease: from bench top to bed side”
3. Martin Bonamino (INCA). “Gene therapy in stem cell transplantation”
05:45 – 05:55pm
QUESTIONS
05:55 – 06:00pm
ESCI 2006 – CLOSING REMAKES – LUIZ WERBER-BANDEIRA
XXXI CONGRESSO BRASILEIRO DE IMUNOLOGIA
Signaling in the Immune System
October, 22-25, 2006
MAIN SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM
October 22, Sunday
8:00 – 8:30pm
Opening. Gustavo P. Amarante-Mendes. President
8:30 – 9:30pm
Opening Lecture. Warren Leonard (NHLBI)
9:30pm
WELCOME RECEPTION
October 23, Monday
8:30 – 10:30am
SYMPOSIUM – “SIGNALING IN INNATE IMMUNITY”
1. Cristina Bonorino (PUC-RS). “Endogenous adjuvants: which signals activate dendritic cells to generate anti-tumor responses in vivo?
2. Marcello Bozza (UFRJ). “Not litle yet”
3. Elena Lassounskaia (UENF). “Mycobacteria- Induced Macrophage Activation: Role of TLR2/PI3K signaling in Regulation of Proinflammatory Gene Transcription and Cytoskeletal Rearrangements Important for the Cell Motility”
4. Rodrigo Correa de Oliveira (CPqRR-FIOCRUZ).
COFFEE BREAK
11:00 – 12:00am
Morning conference – Gabriel Nuñez (University of Michigan). “Role of NLR Proteins in Innate Immunity and Disease”
12:00 – 3:00pm
LUNCH, SOCIAL LIFE
3:00 – 4:00pm
Course. BD – Signaling
4:00 – 5:30pm
Express Presentations I
5:30 – 6:00pm
Mini conference. Miguel Soares (Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência). “Cell/Cytokine Signaling”
4:00 – 5:30pm
Express Presentations II
5:30 – 6:00pm
Mini conference – Laszlo Nagy (University of Debrecen). “Nuclear receptors as means of immune cell regulation”
COFFEE BREAK
6:30 – 7:30pm
Twilight Conference – Steve Reiner (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia) "Making daughter T cells different during immunity"
Chair:
7:30 – 9:00pm
Poster exhibition (Happy hour)
9:00pm
DINNER
October 24, Tuesday
8:30 – 10:30am
SYMPOSIUM – “SIGNALING IN ACTIVATION/CELL DEATH”
1. Thereza Christina Barja-Fidalgo (UERJ). ”Integrin selective ligands modulating leukocyte activation, migration and death”
2. Pedro Muanis Persechini (UFRJ). “Involvement of a calcium-independent phospholipase A2 and 5-lipoxygenase”
in the apoptosis induced by extracellular ATP via P2X7 receptors in
macrophages”
3. Ana Campa (ICB-USP). “Multiple actions of melatonin and its oxidation products on the immune system”
4. Gabriel Rabinovich (Argentina).
COFFEE BREAK
11:00 – 12:00pm
Mor
ning Conference – Douglas Green (St. Jude Children´s Research Hospital). “Central Mechanisms of Cell Death”
12:00 – 3:00pm
LUNCH, SOCIAL LIFE
3:00 – 4:00pm
Course. Invitrogen – RNAi
4:00 – 5:30pm
Express Presentations III
5:30 – 6:00pm
Mini conference. Carl Goodeyar (University of California San Diego). "Signals for the induction of B cell death"
4:00 – 5:30pm
Express Presentations IV
5:30 – 6:00pm
Mini conference. Dario Zamboni (USP-RP). “ Recognition of intracellular pathogens by the innate immune system”
COFFEE BREAK
6:30 – 7:30pm
Twilight Conference – Ruslan Medzhitov (Yale University Medical School). “Toll-mediated control of the immune response”
7:30 – 9:00 pm
POSTER EXHIBITION (HAPPY HOUR)
9:00 pm
DINNER
October 25, Wednesday
8:30 – 10:30am
SYMPOSIUM . “SIGNALING IN DIFFERENTIATION”
1. Claudio Bonjardim (UFMG). “Alpha-enolase an interferon- and plasminogen- regulated gene”
2. Johan Van Weyenbergh (CPqGM-FIOCRUZ). "STAT1 signaling in human cutaneous leishmaniasis: integrating immunological, genetic and clinical data”
3. Adriana Gruppi (National University of Cordoba). “Signals involved in B1 cell differentiation: implication in Trypanosoma Cruzi infection humoral response”
4. Mark Ansel (Harvard Medical School). “Gene silencing in helper T cell differentiation”
COFFEE BREAK
11:00 – 12:00Pm
Morning Conference. Klaus Rajewsky (USA). “Cell Development”
12:30 – 3:00pm
LUNCH, SOCIAL LIFE
3:00 – 4:00pm
Course. BIO-RAD – Multiplex
4:00 – 5:00pm
Update ICI 2007. Jorge Kalil (ICI 2007) e Isabel Miranda (8th IVIS)
5:00 – 6:00pm
SBI ASSEMBLY
6:00 – 8:00pm
DINNER
8:00 – 9:00pm
Night Conference. Closing Lecture – Ricardo Gazzinelli (CPqRR-FIOCRUZ). “Role of Toll-Like Receptors in Infection with Protozoan Parasites”
9:10 – 9:40pm
Poster award and Closing