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FRIDAY, JULY 16, 2010

09:00 - 18:00
                      Registration (Lobby, 4th Floor, Renaissance Hotel)
 



SATURDAY, JULY 17, 2010


07:00 – 18:00                      Registration
(Lobby, 4th Floor, Renaissance Hotel)

08:00 – 08:30                      Opening Ceremony (Ballroom, 4th Floor, Renaissance Hotel)

                                              
Chair: Shuiping Jiang (China), Zhongmin Liu (China)

08:30 – 10.30                       Keynote Lectures

                                              
Chair: Xuetao Cao (China), Tadamitsu Kishimoto (China)

08:30                                       Alexander Rudensky, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, USA
                                                Mechanisms of generation and function of regulatory T cells

09:10                                       Vijay K. Kuchroo, Harvard University, USA
                                                Effector and helper functions of Th17 cells

09:50                                       Xuetao Cao, Second Military Medical University, China
                                               RHBDD3 suppresses Th17-mediated pathogenesis of autoimmune diseases by controlling TLR-triggered DC maturation


10:30 – 10:50                      Coffee Break, Poster Viewing

10:50 – 12:00                      Plenary Session 1: Development and Molecular Control of Th17 Cells

                                               
Chairs:  Chen Dong (USA), Vijay Kuchroo (USA)

10:50                                     Chen Dong, MD Anderson Cancer Center, USA
                                              Molecular controls of Th17 cell differentiation

11:15                                     Gerard Eberl, Pasteur Institute, France
                                              Symbiotic bacteria in the development of IL-17+ lymphoid cells

11:40                                     Kazuo Okamoto, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Japan
                                             An essential role of IkBz in Th17 development (P051)

12:05 – 14:00                      Lunch, Poster Viewing

13:00 – 14:00                      Poster Viewing with Moderators: Bruce Blazer (USA), Steven Miller (USA), Yasmine Belkaid (USA), and Dale Umetsu (USA)


14:00 - 16:00
                      Plenary Session 2: Differentiation and Regulation of Regulatory T Cells

                                               
Chairs: Alexander Rudensky (USA), Wanjun Chen  (USA)

14:00                                     Ludger Klein, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Germany
                                              Clonal deletion versus Treg differentiation of autoreactive CD4+ thymocytes

14:25                                     Sankar Ghosh, Columbia University, USA
                                              Regulation of T regulatory cells by NF-kB

15:50                                     Wanjun Chen, National Institutes of Health, USA
                                              The enhancer and silencer in Foxp3 gene expression

15:15                                     Short Talk: Ming O. Li, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, USA
                                              Foxos cooperatively control Foxp3+ regulatory T cell differentiation (P054)

15:30                                     Short Tal: Yun-Cai Liu, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, USA
                                              Transcription factors Foxo3a and Foxo1 couple the E3 ligase Cbl-b to the induction of Foxp3 expression in regulatory T cells (P005)

15:45                                     Short Tal: Hye-Sook Kwon, University of California at San Francisco, USA
                                              The SIRT1 deacetylase negatively regulates Treg differentiation by destabilizing the FOXP3 transcription factor (P121)

16:00 – 16:20                      Coffee Break, Poster Viewing

16:20 - 18:15                       Plenary Session 3: Molecular Control of Th17/Treg Balance

                                              
Chairs: Tadamitsu Kishimoto (Japan), Sankar Ghosh (USA)

16:20                                     Tadamitsu Kishimoto, Osaka University, Japan
                                              IL6 and Aryl hydrocarbon receptor: Regulators of Th17/Treg balance as well as macrophages

16:45                                     Fan Pan, John Hopkins University, USA
                                              Control of Th17/Treg balance by hypoxia-inducible factor 1α

17:05                                     Rongfu Wang, Baylor College of Medicine, USA
                                              Innate immune signaling controls Treg and Th17 cell differentiation and function

17:30                                     Short Talk: Guobing Chen, The Australia National University, Australia
                                              c-Rel is involved in IL21 gene expression and associated specific T helper cell subsets development (P008)

17:45                                     Short Talk: Song Guo Zheng, University of Southern California, USA
                                              All-trans retinoic acid restores the stability and functionality of nTregs in an inflammatory milieu (P055)

18:00                                     Short Talk: Ling Lu, Nanjing Medical University, China
                                              Role of Smad and non-Smad signals in the development of Th17 and regulatory T cells (P093)


SUNDAY, JULY 18, 2010


08:00 – 10:30 
                   Plenary Session 4: IL-17 in Innate Immunity
 

                                              Chairs: Daniel Cua (USA), Kingston Mills (Ireland)
 

08:00                                     Daniel Cua, Merck Research Laboratory, USA
                                              
                                              The protective vs. pathogenic functions of innate IL-17-producing cells
 

08:25                                     Kingston Mills, Trinity College, Ireland
                            The role of IL-1 in activating Th17 cells and in inducing innate IL-17 production by gd T cells 

08:50                                     Stephen Miller, Northwestern University, USA
                            IL-17-producing gd T cells play a significant role in the pathogenesis of experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis 

09:15                                    
Dale Umetsu, Harvard University, USA
                                              The regulation of asthma by subsets of natural killer T cells

09:40                                     Short Talk: Akihiko Yoshimura, Keio University School of Medicine, Japan
                                              Role of IL-23 and IL-17-producing gdT cells in the delayed phase of brain ischemia (P012)
 

09:55                                     Short Talk: Qing-Sheng Mi, Henry Ford Health System, USA
                                              Loss of miRNAs in the bone marrow enhances gamma/delta T cell development but reduces Th17 gamma/delta T cells (P042)


10:10 –10:30
                      Coffee Break, Poster Viewing
  

10:30 – 12:00                     Plenary Session 5: Signal Transduction of Treg/Th17 Cells in Disease


                                               Chairs: Anne O’Garra (UK), Jingwu Zang (China)

10:30                                     Anne O’Garra, MRC National Institute for Medical Research, UK
                                              Regulation of IL-10 production by T cells and implications for immune response to pathogens

10:55                                     Jingwu Zang, GlaxoSmithKline R&D China, China
                                              Role of IL-7 and IL-7R signaling in Th17 development in autoimmune disease

11:20                                     Xiaoxia Li, Cleveland Clinic, USA
                                              CNS-restricted ablation of IL-17-induced Act1-mediated signaling ameliorates autoimmune encephalomyelitis

11:45                                     Short Talk: Erik Lubberts, Erasmus MC University, The Netherlands
                                             
Vitamin D suppresses Th17 cytokines via down regulation of RORgammat and NFATC2 and inhibits the pathogenic behavior of primary human Th17 cells from early RA patients (P110) 

12:00                                     Short Talk: Allan SY Lau, University of Hong Kong, China
                                             
Interleukin-17 modulation of mycobacterium-induced cytokine (P109)

12:15 – 14:00                      Lunch, Poster Viewing, BD Lunch Symposium 

13:10 - 13:40                          BD Lunch Symposium: Xiao-Wei Xu, BD Biosciences, USA
                                                Tools for the study of regulatory T cells: Isolation, Function and Plasticity

14:00 – 15:55                      Plenary Session 6: Induction and Heterogenicity of Tregs
                                          

                                               Chairs: Shimon Sakaguchi (Japan), Roland Liblau (France)

14:00                                    Shimon Sakaguchi, Kyoto University, Japan
                                              Construction of regulatory T cells without Foxp3

14:25                    David Hafler, Yale University, USA
                                              CD127 identifies a population of induced human CD4+CD25hi regulatory cells

14:50                                     Ciriaco Piccirillo, McGill University, Canada
                                              The translatome of Foxp3+ regulatory T cells

15:15                                    Hans-Dieter Volk, Charite, Humboldt University, Germany
                                             
Human regulatory T cells – the impact of heterogenicity on enrichment and expansion

15: 40                                    Short Talk: Joanne E. Konkel, National Institutes of Health, USA
                                              
Insights into the role of TGFbeta in Treg generation within the thymus; TGFbeta is important for Foxp3 induction in thymocytes (P031) 


15: 55 – 16: 15                  Coffee Break, Poster Viewing

16:15 – 18:00                      Plenary Session 7: Mechanism of Immune Suppression

                                              
Chairs: Ethan Shevach (USA), Larry Turka (USA)

16:15                                     Ethan Shevach, National Institutes of Health, USA
                                              Mechanisms of T regulatory cell-mediated suppression in vivo

16:40                                     Bin Li, University of Pennsylvania, USA
                                              Structural insights into the regulatory function of discrete acetylated residues of the FOXP3 coiled coil subdomain in oligomerization-dependent immune modulation

17:05                                     Laurence A. Turka, Harvard University, USA
                                              Control of T cell responses by the tumor suppressor gene Pten

17:30                                     Short Talk: Zuojia Chen, Institute Pasteur of Shanghai, China
                                              Identification of STUB1 as an ubiquitin E3 ligase of FOXP3 (P105)

17:45                                     Short Talk: Joachim Schultze, University of Bonn, Germany
                                              Foxp3-mediated suppression of SATB1 expression in Treg cells is required for suppressive function and inhibition of effector differentiation (P111)


MONDAY, JULY 19, 2010

 
08:00 - 10:00                       Plenary Session 8: Homeostasis and Migration of Th17, Th22 and Tregs

                                               
Chairs: Antonio Lanzavecchia (Switzerland), Fiona Powrie (UK)

08:00                                     Antonio Lanzavecchia, Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Switzerland
                                              T lymphocyte differentiation, migration and immune regulation

08:25                                     Yasmine Belkaid, National Institutes of Health, USA
                                              Endogenous mucosal adjuvants

08:50                                     Fiona Powrie, University of Oxford, UK
                                              Intestinal homeostasis: a balancing act between effector and regulatory T cell responses

09:15                                     Short Talk: Yingzi Cong, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
                                             Treg-IgA axis is dominant in maintenance of host immune homeostasis to microbiota (P016)

09:30                                     Short Talk: Deyu Fang, Northwestern University, USA
                                             The type III histone deacetylase Sirt1 and its activators in immune regulation and autoimmunity (P034)


09:45 – 10:05                    Coffee Break, Poster Viewing

 

10:05 – 12:10                      Plenary Session 9: Regulatory T Cells in Autoimmunity and Tolerance

                                              
Chairs: Herman Waldmann (UK), Tyler Curiel (USA)

10:05                                     Herman Waldmann, University of Oxford, UK
                                              Explaining Infectious Tolerance

10:30                                     Petra Reinke, Charité University Medicine Berlin, Germany
                                              Regulatory T cells in transplantation – bad and good guys

10:55                                    Tyler Curiel, University of Texas Health Science Center, USA
                                              B7-H1 mediates sexually dimorphic Treg function: Consequences for autoimmunity and tumor immunity

11:20                                     Matthias von Herrath, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, USA
                                             Combination therapies involving islet-antigen induced Tregs in type 1diabetes

11:45 – 14:30                    Lunch, Poster Viewing, BioLegend Lunch Symposium

12:45 – 14:20                     BioLegend Lunch Symposium: Journal Editorial Policies and Process

                                              
Chairs: Shuiping Jiang (China), Jingwu Zang (China)

12:45                                    Laurie Dempsey, Senior Editor, Nature Immunology

13:05                                    Peter Lee, Editor-in-Chief, Immunity

13:25                                     Larry Turka, Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Clinical Investigation

13:45                                     Dangsheng Li, Deputy Editor-in-Chief, Cell Research

13: 55                                   Q&A

14:30 – 16:10                      Plenary Oral Session 1: Tregs/Th17 Cells: Basic Sciences

                                               
Chairs: Ludger Klein (Germany) and Gerard Eberl (France)

14:30                                      Takashi Maruyama, National Institutes of Health, USA
                                               The role of Smad4 in the generation of Foxp3+ regulatory T cells and Th17 cells (P018)

14:40                                      Chenxia He, Institut Pasteur, France
                                              The circadian rhythm related gene Arntl2 in Idd6 genetic locus protects against autoimmune type 1 diabetes (P003)

14:50                                     Beinan Wang, University of Minnesota, USA
                                              Induction of TGF-b1 and TGF-b
1-dependent predominant Th17 differentiation by Group A Streptococcal infection (P083)

15:00                                     Luis Graca, University of Lisbon, Portugal
                                              Plasticity of invariant natural killer T cells in response to TGF-b leads to the generation of distinct functional subsets expressing Foxp3, IL-9 and IL-17 (P078)

15:10                                     Gang Pei, Tongji University, China
                                              miR-326 and β-arrestin1 co-regulate Th-17 cell differentiation and function

15:30                                     Yan Wu, Harvard University, USA
                                              CD39/ENTPD1 expression by CD4+Foxp3+ regulatory T cells suppresses anti-tumor immunity (P131)

15:40                                     Sascha Rutz, Genetech, USA
                            The Notch/delta-like4 axis regulates IL-10 production and anti-inflammatory activity of Th1 cells (P073)

15:50                                     Julia Fang Gao, University of Toronto, Canada
                                             
Regulation of dendritic cells by double negative regulatory T cells (P049)

16:00                                     Ana Izcue, Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology, Germany
                                              CTLA-4 controls peripheral Foxp3 induction (P123)

16:10 – 16:30                      Coffee Break, Poster Reviewing

16:30 – 18:00                      Plenary Oral Session 2: Tregs/Th17 Cells in Disease and Application

                                              
Chairs: David Hafler (USA), Matthias von Herrath  (USA)

16:30                                     Guang-Xian Zhang, Thomas Jefferson University, USA
                                              3G11-CD25+CD4+ cells are a highly potent subpopulation of regulatory T cells (P030)

16:40                                     Jun Wu, Third Military Medical University, China
                                              Unexpected “regulatory” role of effectors: activated CD4+Foxp3- T cells facilitate melanoma metastasis via Qa-1-dependent suppression of NK cell cytotoxicity (P007)

16:50                                     Wenwei Tu, University of Hong Kong, China
                                              Generation of human Th1-like regulatory CD4+ T cells by an intrinsic IFN-g
- and T-bet-dependent pathway (P011)

17:00                                     Bruce Hall, University of New South Wales, Australia
                                              IL-5 promotes induction of antigen specific CD4+CD25+Tregs that suppress autoimmune mediated demyelination (P107)

17:10                                     Elmar Jaeckel, University of Hannover, Germany
                                              Small numbers of antigen-specific regulatory T cells prevent diabetes by long-term persistence and infectious tolerance without compromising general immunocompetence (P112)

17:20                                     Daniel Lowther, Imperial College London, UK
                                              Characterisation of a spontaneous humanized murine model for multiple sclerosis (P076)

17:30                                     Ashish Marwaha, University of British Columbia, Canada
                                              Children with type 1 diabetes have an increase in a Foxp3+ T cells subset that secretes IL-17 (P028)

17:40                                     Yingzi Ge, German Cancer Research Center, Germany
                                              Tumor-induced emigration of antigen-specific Treg enables the bone marrow to foster spontaneous anti-tumor T-cell responses in breast cancer (P013)

17:50                                     Hans J.P.M. Koenen, Radboud University, The Netherlands
                                              Severe plaque psoriasis is associated with an enhanced capacity of regulatory T cells to acquire a Th17-related phenotype and lose Foxp3 (P124)

18:00                                     Nabila Seddiki, The University of New South Wales, Australia
                                              Measuring antigen-specific CD39+OX40+CD25+ regulatory and CD39-OX40+CD25+ effector CD4+ T cell in viral infections (HIV, CMV) and in autoimmunity (coeliac disease)


19:00 PM –
                          Gala Party


TUESDAY, JULY 20, 2010



08:00 - 10:10
                      Plenary Session 10: Tregs, IL-17 and IL-22 in Mucosal and Regional Inflammation

                                              
Chairs: Diane Mathis  (USA), Rachel Caspi  (USA) 

08:00                                      Diane Mathis, Harvard University, USA
                                               Tissular regulatory T cells

08:25                                      Rachel Caspi, National Institutes of Health, USA
                                               Immune privilege, T regulatory cells and autoimmunity

08:50                                     Wenjun Ouyang, Genentech Inc, USA
                                              IL-22 in mucosal immunity

09:15                                     Jay K. Kolls, Louisiana State University, USA
                                              Th17 Cytokines: roles in mucosal immunity and chronic inflammation

09:40                                     Short Talk: Georgina Xanthou, Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens, Greece
                                              Activin-A controls allergen-driven Th2 responses and associated allergic asthma (P114)

09:55                                     Short Talk: Guangxun Meng, Institute Pasteur of Shanghai, China
                                              Interleukine-17 dominant inflammation in experimental uveitis from mice with Nlrp3 mutation (P026)

10: 10 – 10:30                    Coffee Break, Poster Viewing

10:30 – 12:30                     Plenary Session 11: Preclinical and Clinical Application of Tregs/Th17 in Human Disease

                                               
Chairs: Yong-Jun Liu (USA), Weiping Zou (USA)

10:30                                     Bruce Blazar, University of Minnesota, USA
                                              Preclinical and clinical applications of regulatory T cells to control graft-versus-host disease (GVHD)

10:55                                     Yong-Jun Liu, MD Anderson Cancer Center, USA
                                              Blocking Treg by Anti-Ox40 mAb to enhance anti-tumor immunity

11:20                                     Weiping Zou, University of Michigan, USA
                                              Th17 cells in human diseases

11:45                                     Short Talk: Bo Huang, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, China
                                              In vivo depletion of Treg cells by low-dose cyclophosphamide: potential treatment of HPV-infected genital wart in patients and the underlying molecular mechanism (P002)

12:00                                     Short Talk: Naruyasu Kakita, Osaka University, Japan
                                              Distinctive roles of IL-10-producing type 1 regulatory T cells (Tr1) in the pathogenesis of hepatitis C virus-infected hepatocellular carcinoma (P133)


12: 15                                    End of the Conference
   


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