Advances in Immunology in Health and Disease (6-10 August 2018)
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Monday 6 August 2018
14:00
Arrival and registration
16:30
Welcome speech
16:40
Topic: An overview of immune networks in clinical medicine
17:00
Topic: Macrophage biology and medicine
18:30
Welcome dinner
Tuesday 7 August 2018
09:00
Topic: Dendritic cell biology and medicine
10:30
Topic: Regulatory B cells
11:00
Tea break
11:20
Topic: T cell subsets and immune responses
12:50
Lunch and poster viewing
14:00
Oral presentation of selected participants
16:00
Topic: Cytokines and t cells
16:30
Topic: Immunotherpy
Wednesday 8 August 2018
09:00
Topic: Advances in research in SLE
10:30
Topic: Innate immune response in SLE
11:00
Tea break
11:20
Topic: MicroRNAs regulation in SLE
12:50
Lunch and poster viewing
14:00
Oral presentation
16:00
Topic: HIV vaccine and T cell responses
16:30
Topic: TBD
18:00
Course Closing Address
19:00
Closing Dinner for all speakers and participants
Thursday 9 August: Outdoor social activities
09:00
Guided tour of Hong Kong
18:00
Social Dinner
Friday 10 August: Open Symposium
09:00
Opening address
09:15
Topic: Macrophage biology and medicine
10:15
Tea break
10:30
Topic: Regulation in T cell differentiation
11:30
Topic: Dendritic cell biology and medicine
12:30
Lunch
14:30
Topic: TBD
15:30
Topic: Immune dysregulation in systemic lupus erthematosus
16:30
Tea break
16:45
Topic: Advances in molecular research in autoimmunity
17:45
Closing remarks
Speakers
- Professor Alt Alt Harvard Medical School, USA
- Professor Wanjun Chen National Institutes of Health Education M.D., Medicine, Qingdao University Medical School, Qingdao, China, 1984M.S., Microbiology and Immunology, Shandong University Medical School and Shandong Academy of Medical Sciences, Jinan, China, 1987Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Immunology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 1993-1996Honors and Awards Invited Speaker, NIH Director's Seminar Series , 2009, http://videocast.nih.gov/pastevents.asp?c=25The Wang Ying-Lai Memorial Lecture, Annual Meeting of The Texas Chapter of Society of Chinese Bioscientists in America ( SCBA), Houston, Texas, 2011Co-organizer and co-chair, Keystone Symposium, TGF-beta in Immune Responses: From Bench to Bedside, Snowbird, Utah, 2011Research Interests/Scientific FocusWe are elucidating mechanisms of TGF-beta regulation of T-cell immunity and tolerance, and manipulating T-cell immunity versus tolerance in animal models to understand the pathogenesis of autoimmunity and inflammation, cancer and infectious diseases and to develop potential therapies for relevant human diseases, with special attention to NIDCR mission relevant diseases, such as Sjögren's syndrome, periodontal diseases, and oral and head and neck cancers.
- Professor Chen Dong Tsinghua University
- Professor Yong Jun Liu
- Professor Tak Wah Mak University of Toronto
- Professor Virginia Pascual Weill Cornell Medicine
- Professor Jeffrey Pollard University of Edinburgh
- Professor Nan Shen Shanghai Jiao Tong University
- Tadatsugu Taniguchi University of Tokyo
- Dr Vera Chan University of Hong Kong
- Professor Zhiwei Chen University of Hong Kong
- Professor CS Lau University of Hong Kong
- Professor Liwei Lu University of Hong Kong
- Professor Chun Kwok Wong Chinese University of Hong Kong