Sociedade Portuguesa de Imunologia
XXXIII Reunião Anual da Sociedade Portuguesa de Imunologia
“Manipulating the immune response: a therapeutic tool”
Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Lisboa, 14 – 16 Novembro 2007
WEDNESDAY 14 – Manipulating protective immune responses: infection.
14.00 Caetano Reis e Sousa, Cancer Research UK, London
Innate regulation of dendritic cell function.
Pedro Simas, Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Faculdade de Medicina de Lisboa
Manipulating B cell responses: herpesviruses.
Oral presentations selected from the abstracts.
Chaiperson: Michael Parkhouse, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras
16.00 Coffee break – posters
16.30 Gil Castro, School of Health Sciences & Life and Health Sciences Research Institute, Universidade
do Minho, Braga
Role of Th17 cells in mycobacterial infections.
Sérgio de Almeida, Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular, Porto
Endoplasmic Reticulum-stress-mediated MHC class I anomalies: the role of HFE.
Citomed Prize in Immunology
Chaiperson: Michael Parkhouse, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras
18.00 Mixer – drinks & nibbles by the posters.
THURSDAY 15 – Turning on the immune response: cancer and immunodeficiencies.
9.00
Terry Fry, NIH, Bethesda
Using allogeneic transplantation as a platform for tumor-directed immunotherapy.
Fathia Mami-Chouaib, Institut Gustave Roussy, Paris, France
Activation of cytotoxic cells for human anti-tumor immune responses.
Oral presentations selected from the abstracts.
Chairperson: Bruno Silva-Santos, Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Faculdade de Medicina de Lisboa
11.00 Coffee break – posters
11.30 António Coutinho, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras
Lessons from primary immunodeficiencies.
João Forjaz de Lacerda, Hospital de Santa Maria, Faculdade de Medicina de Lisboa
Challenges in haploidentical hematopoietic progenitor cell transplantation.
Oral presentations selected from the abstracts.
Chairperson: Ana Espada Sousa, Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Faculdade de Medicina de Lisboa.
13.00 Lunch break – posters
14.30 Afternoon session organized by the Primary Immunodeficiencies Interest Group
João Bosco Oliveira, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
Human disorders of lymphocyte apoptosis.
Oral presentations selected from the abstracts.
Chairperson: A. Castro e Melo, Hospital Geral de Santo António, Porto
16.00 Coffee break – posters
16.30 Clinical Round Table
Primary Immunodeficiencies - learning immunology from patients:
Laura Marques, Hospital Maria Pia, Porto
Emília Faria, Hospitais Universitários da Universidade de Coimbra
Susana Lopes da Silva, Hospital de Santa Maria e Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Lisboa
Discussants: Júlia Vasconcelos, Hospital Geral de Santo António, Porto
José Gonçalo Marques, Hospital de Santa Maria e Faculdade de Medicina de Lisboa
Chairpersons: Rui M. Victorino, Hospital de Santa Maria, Faculdade de Medicina de Lisboa
António Coutinho, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras
18.00 Meeting of the Primary Immunodeficiencies Interest Group
FRIDAY 16 – Turning off the immune response: autoimmunity, allergy, transplantation.
10.30 SPI General Assembly
12.00 Lunch break – posters
13.00 Hedda Wardmann, Max-Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Berlin
Self-reactivity in the human B cell repertoire.
Benoit Salomon, Hopital de la Pitie-Salpetriere, Paris.
Role and therapeutic potential of regulatory T cells in autoimmunity.
Oral presentations selected from the abstracts.
Chairperson: João Eurico Fonseca, Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Faculdade de Medicina de
Lisboa.
15.00 Coffee break – posters
15.15 Clare M. Lloyd, Imperial College, London.
Regulation of allergen-induced airway disease in vivo.
Luis Taborda Barata, Universidade da Beira Interior, Covilhã.
General modulation of allergic responses.
Jocelyne Demengeot, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras.
Inducing immune activities to lower auto-immunity.
Presentation of the Best Poster Award.
Chairpersons: Luis Graça, Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Faculdade de Medicina de Lisboa.
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