1. Organisation: Sociedade Portuguesa de Imunologia Av. Dr. Mário Moutinho 1400 Lisboa Telephone: 351-21-3010242 FAX: 351-21-3016980 E-Mail: [email protected] Website: central.igc.gulbenkian.pt/eao/ti/spi/index.html 3. Responsible for the "Clinical Immunology Symposium": João Castro e Melo Hospital Santo António, Porto Telephone: 22-6064697 E-Mail: [email protected] 2. Organising committee: Carlos Martins Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária Laboratório de Doenças Infecciosas (LDI) Rua Prof. Cid dos Santos 1300-477, Lisboa Telephone: 21-3652845 Fax : 21-3652821 E-Mail. [email protected] Emilia Arranhado Hospital Curry Cabral, Lisboa E-mail: [email protected] Maria Jorge Arroz Hospital Egas Moniz, Lisboa E-Mail: [email protected] Michael Parkhouse Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras. Lisboa E- Mail: [email protected] Pedro Simas Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras. Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa E-Mail: [email protected] Rui Victorino Faculdade de Medicina, Imunologia Clínica Hospital de Santa Maria, Lisboa E-Mail: [email protected] 4. Secretariat: Laboratório de Doenças Infecciosas C/O Carlos Martins Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária Gabinete C4-101 Rua Prof. Cid dos Santos 1300-477 Lisboa Portugal Telephone: 351 - 21 - 3652800 (EXT. 357) Fax: 351- 21 - 365 2821 E-Mail: [email protected] SOCIEDADE PORTUGUESA DE IMUNOLOGIA PROGRAMME XXVII ANNUAL MEETING PORTUGUESE SOCIETY FOR IMMUNOLOGY 5. Sponsors: - Alfagene Alfredo Cavalheiro Batista Marques BioRad Bioatlântico Citomed Enzifarma Hospitrans Labometer Labocontrole Merck Eurolab Pharmacia Upjohn Roche Molecular Biochemicals 22 - 24 NOVEMBER, 2001 "INFECTION AND IMMUNITY: PERSPECTIVES FOR VACCINATION" Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária Universidade Técnica de Lisboa 6. Instituições: - FCT Pólo Universitário do Alto da Ajuda Rua Professor Cid dos Santos 1300 - 447 Lisboa Thursday, November 22 Friday, November 23 08.00 - 09.00 - Registration 09.00 - 09.30 - Registration Immunology Symposium 09.00 - 09.30 - Saturday, November 24 for the Clinical 08.00 - 10.00 - Registration Immunology Symposium. for the Clinical Opening session 09.30 - 12.30 - Plenary Session 1: A rationale basis for protection (Chairman, M. Parkhouse) - Immunoregulation by dentritic cells (Stella Knight, Imperial College School of Medicine, UK) 09.30 - 12.30 - Plenary Session 2: Fundamentals for vaccine development (Chairman, M. de Sousa) - Immune control of virus infections and viral strategies for its evasion (Persephone Borrow, The Edward Jenner Institute for Vaccine Research, Compton, UK). COFFEE BREAK COFFEE BREAK - An AIDS vaccine: Do we need to stimulate the T cells? (Andrew McMichael, Institute of Molecular Medicine. Oxford, UK). - Immunopathogenesis of mycobaterial infections and vaccine strategies (Rui Appelberg. ICBAS, Porto, Portugal). - Regulatory T cells - Relevance in Vaccine Design (Joselyne Demengeot, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciências. Oeiras, Portugal). 10.00 - 10.30 - COFFEE BREAK 10.30 - 13.00 - Clinical Immunology Symposium. "Vaccines: From the Laboratory to Practice". (Chairman, J. Castro e Melo) - Vaccine Strategies in Veterinary Medicine (Andre Jestin. Agence Française de Securité Sanitaire des Aliments (AFSSA), Plaufragan, France). - Vaccination against protozoan parasites: design and hopes (Laurent Renia. INSERM, Paris, France). - Mucosal vaccine delivery by recombinant grampoitive bacteria (Gianni Pozzi, University of Siena Medical School, Italy). 12.30 - LUNCH AND POSTER VIEWING - Dendritic cell vaccination therapy for melanoma patients (M. Gilliet, Zürich University Hospital. Zürich. Switzerland) 12.30 - LUNCH AND POSTER VIEWING 14.00 - Commercial Workshop 1. New markers for identification and isolation of human blood dentritic cells (Rita Cavaleiro, CITOMED, Portugal). 09.00 - 10.00 - Oral Presentations 14.00 - Commercial Workshop 2: Detection of soluble cytokines – Cytometric Bead Array (Maria Páz L. Mato, BDBiosciences Madrid. Enzifarma). 14.30 - Oral presentations 14.30 - Round Table: The contribution of Immunology to vaccine development (Chairman, António Coutinho) 16.00 - COFFEE BREAK 16.00 - COFFEE BREAK 16.30 - Poster Workshop 1 16.30 - Poster Workshop 2 18.00 - Welcome Cocktail 18.00 - General Assembly, SPI 19.00 - END OF ACTIVITIES 19.00 - END OF ACTIVITIES 20.30 - Dinner + Concert (Baroque String Trio) - Round table discussion 13.00 - Closing Session