Meetings

International Congress of Immunology and FOCIS
Satellite Meeting Sponsored by the Clinical Immunology Society
and the Canadian Immunodeficiency Society

Host Defense and Inherited Immune Deficiency

Organizers: Charlotte Cunningham-Rundles and Chaim Roifman
Date & Time: Sunday, July 18, 2004, 9:00-14:00
Room: Satellite, 518ab, Reception for attendees, 518c
Supported through an educational grant from Bayer

Session 1: Innate Immunity:
9:00	Welcome & Introduction Charlottee Cunningham Rundles (USA) and Chaim Roifman (Canada)
9:15-9:45	Animal models of susceptibility to infection Emil Skamene (Canada)
9:45-10:15	Forward Genetic Analysis of Innate Immunity: The TLRs and Beyond Bruce Beutler (USA)
10:15-10:45	From idiopathic infections to novel primary immunodeficiencies Jean-Laurent Casanova (France)
10:45-11:15	Inherited Defects in Lymphocyte Cytotoxicity Genevieve Saint Basile (France)
11:15	Brunch Break
Session II: New Developments in Innate and Adaptive immunity:
12:00-12:30	Innate and adaptive immunity: the links to immune memory or Antigen dependent and independent and independent mechanisms that sustain serum antibody Antonio Lanzavecchia (Switzerland)
12:30-13:00	Molecular requirements: How does the Immune System Eliminate auto reactivity? Eric Meffre (USA)
13:00-13:30	B cell differentiation blockages leading to hypogammaglobulinemia: the ICF syndrome Claudine Schiff (France)
13:30-14:00	Early B cell Development Mary Ellen Conley (USA)
14:00-14:15	Closing Remarks Charlotte Cunningham-Rundles and Chaim Roifman
14:30	Jeffrey Modell Foundation Reception, Room 518c