XXXVI ANNUAL MEETING
OF THE PORTUGUESE SOCIETY FOR IMMUNOLOGY
September 20-22, 2010
Fighting Intracellular Pathogens: from bench to bedside
ICVS- Life and Health Sciences Research Institute
Health Sciences School, University of Minho
Braga, Portugal
Monday 20th September
12:00-13:45 Registration
Session I- Overcoming HIV Infection
13:45-14:00 Welcome and Overview
14:00-14:45 Françoise Barré-Sinoussi
Title to be announced
Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
14:45-15:15 Ana Espada de Sousa
Reversible and irreversible damage in HIV/AIDS
Instituto de Medicina Molecular (IMM), Lisbon, Portugal
15:15-15:45 Selected Oral Communications
15:45-16:45 Coffee Break and Poster Viewing
16:45-17:30 Robert Wilkinson
The pathogenesis of the HIV-Tuberculosis associated immune reconstitution
inflammatory syndrome
MRC-National Institute for Medical Research, London, UK
17:30-18:00 Rui Sarmento e Castro
AIDS control: from the reality of a Central Hospital in the North of Portugal to the National
and Global scenarios
Hospital Joaquim Urbano, Porto and Escola de Ciências da Saúde, Braga, Portugal
18:00-18:30 Selected Oral Communications
19:00
Reception
Tuesday 21st September
Session II- The Immune Response to Protozoa: Advances and Challenges
08:45-9:00 Announcements
09:00-09:45 Dragana Jankovic
Differentiation, regulation, and death of Th1 cells during Toxoplasma gondii infection
National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
09:45-10:15 Manuel Vilanova
Immune response to Neospora caninum in mice
Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar (ICBAS) and Instituto de Biologia
Molecular e Celular (IBMC), Porto, Portugal
10:15-10:45 Selected Oral Communications
10:45-11:15 Coffee Break and Poster Viewing
11:15-12:00 Paul Kaye
Mononuclear phagocyte diversity and the host response to Leishmania
University of York, York, UK
12:00-12:30 Kamal Mansinho
Title to be announced
Hospital Egas Moniz, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
12:30-13:00 Selected Oral Communications
13:00-14:30 Lunch and Poster Viewing
Session III- Mycobacteria: Modern Strategies to Fight an Old Enemy
14:30-15:15 Anne O’Garra
Regulation of the immune response in Tuberculosis: from mouse models to human
disease
MRC-National Institute for Medical Research, London, UK
15:15-15:45 Jorge Pedrosa
Implications of Mycobacterium ulcerans lifestyle in the host protective immune response
Instituto de Investigação em Ciências da Vida e da Saúde (ICVS), Braga, Portugal
15:45-16:30 Coffee Break and Poster Viewing
16:30-17:15 Andrea Cooper
Vaccination against Tuberculosis - do we know what responses to generate?
Trudeau Institute, Inc, New York State, USA
17:15-17:45 Elsa Anes
Mycobacterium tuberculosis Protein ESAT-6 is a Potent Activator of the NLRP3/ASC
Inflammasome
Centro de Patogénese Molecular- URIA/ Faculdade de Farmácia, Universidade de Lisboa
and Instituto de Medicina Molecular (IMM), Lisbon, Portugal
17:45-18:15 Miguel Villar
Tuberculosis: epidemiology and diagnosis
Direcção Geral da Saúde, Portugal
18:15-18:45 Selected Oral Communications
Wednesday 22nd September
Session IV- Fungal Infections: the Balanced Immune Response vs Pathology
09:00-09:45 Luigina Romani
Fungi in the setting of inflammation, allergy and autoimmune diseases
University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy
09:45-10:30 Stuart Levitz
Deciphering and exploiting innate recognition of fungal cell walls
University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, USA
10:30-11:45 Closing session- Honoring Prof. Mário Arala Chaves
11:45-12:00 SPI 2010 Awards
12:00-12:30 Coffee Break
12:30-13:30 SPI Annual General Assembly
Organization and Scientific Committee
Jorge Pedrosa (ICVS, Braga)
Paulo Vieira (Institut Pasteur, Paris)
Gil Castro (ICVS, Braga)
Margarida Correia-Neves (ICVS, Braga)
Margarida Saraiva (ICVS, Braga)
Fernando Rodrigues (ICVS, Braga)
Rui Sarmento e Castro (Hospital Joaquim Urbano, Porto and Escola de Ciências da Saúde, Braga)
Margarida Lima (Hospital Geral de Santo António, Porto)
Manuel Vilanova (ICBAS, Porto)