Edinburgh Immunology Group & The BSI Inflammation Subgroup Conference

Inflammation – from initiation to restoration.

This meeting examines the role of inflammation in causing tissue damage and the loss of tissue homeostasis, through modulation of the immune system by inflammatory processes, and into the repair and regeneration of tissue and resolution of inflammation.

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Programme

Day 1 - Wednesday 24 April 2019

08:30 - 17:00    Registration (open for both days)

The first day of the conference is reserved for early career speakers (MSc, PhD and postdocs) to present their work.  We invite submissions for talks and posters from early career speakers for our MSc / PhD and postdoc sessions - which have prizes! Posters from this day will remain up throughout the conference.

This day will also have an AMA Careers panel including an editor from Nature Reviews Immunology, a medical liasion officer, and a network manager for the International Vaccinology Network, and a keynote talk from Dr Henry McSorley who will be discussing his exciting research and how he developed his ideas.

Day 2 - Thursday 25 April 2019

09:15 - 09:30    Welcome and orientation (CDG)

09:30 - 09:45   Introductory Talk (John Savill)

Session 1: Tissue damage and loss of homeostasis  

09:45 - 10:15    Luke O’Neill (Trinity College Dublin) “Krebs Cycle Reprogrammed for Cytokines”

10:15 - 10:30    Local/delegate

10:30 - 11:00    Eicke Latz (University of Bonn) “Role of the NLRP3 inflammasome in inflammation”

11:00 – 11:30    Coffee Break

11:30 - 12:00    Tracy Hussell (University of Manchester) “Decision making in lung immunity”

12:00 - 12:15    Local/delegate

12:15 - 12:30    Local/delegate

12:30 - 13:00    Margaret Frame (University of Edinburgh) “Linking adhesion and migration to anti-tumour immunity” 13:00 – 14:00    Lunch

Session 2: Immune modulation

14:00 - 14:30    Trian Chavakis (Dresden University) “Myelopoiesis in innate immunity”

14:30 - 14:45    Local/delegate

14:45 - 15:00    Local/delegate

15:00 - 15:30    Gwen Randolph (Washington University) “Functional and mechanistic insights into the peritoneal macrophage disappearance reaction”

15:30 – 16:00    Coffee break

16:00 - 16:30    Minsoo Kim (University of Rochester) “Initiation and resolution of neutrophil response during infection”

16:30 - 16:45    Local/delegate

16:45 - 17:00    Local/delegate

17:00 - 17:30    Claudia Mauri (University College London) “The Aryl hydrocarbon Receptor (AhR)  as a key transcription factor in regulatory B cells function”

17:30 – 19:00    Poster session and wine before the dinner

19:00 - Dinner and Ceilidh  

Day 3 - Friday 26 April 2019

Session 3: Restoration – resolution, repair and regeneration 

09:00 - 09:30    Kodi Ravichandran (University of Virginia/Ghent) “Apoptosis and corpse clearance associated signals in tissue damage and repair”

09:30 - 09:45    Local/delegate

09:45 - 10:00    Local/delegate

10:00 - 10:30    Alison Simmons (University of Oxford)  “Cellular architecture of inflammatory bowel disease lesions reveals mechanisms underpinning inflammation and resolution at mucosal surfaces”

10:30 – 11:00    Breakfast and coffee

11:00 - 11:30    Douglas Green (St Judes, Memphis) “Targeting LAP:  Noncanonical autophagy in anticancer immunity and inflammatory disease”

11:30 - 11:45    Local/delegate

11:45 - 12:00    Local/delegate

12:00 - 12:30    Will Wood (University of Edinburgh) “Imaging Inflammation in the fly”

12:30    Close