T cell meeting, agenda finalised

Claire Morgan

Monday, 05 Nov 2007 12:08 UTC

EuroSciCon have finalised the agenda for their ’Analysing the Phenotype and Function of regulatory T cells’ meeting on March 7th 2008. Please note that this event is restricted to 66 participants so we recommend booking early to avoid disappointment.

The line-up includes:

Introduction by the Chair Dr Catherine Derry, Science Communicator

Human Regulatory T cells- generation and maintenance Dr Milica Vukmanovic-Stejic, UCL, UK

Targeting regulatory T cells in patients with rheumatoid arthritis Professor Michael Ehrenstein, University College London, UK London

The role of regulatory T cells in acute Dengue infection Dr Kerstin Luhn, University of Oxford UK

How Treg suppression is overcome during onset of spontaneous diabetes? Dr Lucy Walker, Institute of Biomedical Research, University of Birmingham, UK

Interactions between CD4CD25 regulatory T cells and monocytes/macrophages: implications for the immune response Dr Leonie Taams, King’s College London, UK

FOXP3+ regulatory T cells as biomarkers in human malignancies Dr Alison H. Banham, University of Oxford, UK

IL-10 and regulatory T cells in allergy and asthma Dr Catherine Hawrylowicz, King’s College London

The Impact of Tregs on Immune Responses to Tumours Dr Awen Gallimore, Cardiff University, UK

To book, please click here . The deadline for early registration is January 20th 2008.

There is still time to submit an abstract – those accepted for poster and oral presentations will also be published in the proceedings. There will be a prize for the best poster. Abstract guidelines can be found at http://www.euroscicon.com/absguidlines.html

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    • Just to let you know, only 10 places remain for this meeting…uroSciCon’s ‘Analysing the Phenotype & Function of Regulatory T cells’ meeting on March 7th.

      To book your place, please visit www.regonline.com/tcells08

    • This meeting was our first sell out meeting at the bio park and it went very well indeed, thanks to everyone who contributed, here are the results of the feedback forms
      In general, people thought that this meeting as good value for money and comments included “I was pleased to see so many presentations on current research on T reg and not on reagents and kits”
      “Vey enjoyable”
      “worked well with lots of high level talks – very broad
      “good meeting , would like to come again”

      The Venue
      Comments
      “Nice lecture theatre”
      “parking easy” “excellent facilities”

      The Catering
      Most people ticked the box that they were happy with the catering and we had many comments n how freinly the caterinmg staff were

      Exhibitions
      One exhibitor commented on how Nick and the catering staff were very friendly

      Everyone said that they enjoyed the meeting and all said they would come back -the follow up event will be in 2010 at the Institute of Child Health in London, chaired by Dr Oliver Garden
      Many thanks to all participants and the Euroscicon team, please let me know what you thought of the event by replying to this comment
      SHARA

    • EuroSciCon are delighted to announce that a report from this meeting has been published in Immunology News:

      Coelho A-M, Lowe R.M.. (May 2008) Analysing the phenotype and function of regulatory T cells (EuroSciCon meeting). Immunology News, issue 15.2, pp. 33-36.

      There will be a follow-up meeting on March 27th 2009 entitled ‘Identifying T cell Subset Phenotype and Function in Parasite Infections’. Do have a look at the agenda. Book now at http://www.regonline.co.uk/tparasite09 to avoid the early registration deadline.

      We hope to see you there!

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