Innate and adaptive immunity– New insights and therapeutic approaches to dermatological diseases
Monday 8 March 2010
Venue: Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole Street, LONDON, W1G 0AE, England
A joint meeting with Dermatology Section
Aims: The aims of the meeting are to review important new concepts in the immunopathogenesis of inflammatory skin diseases and malignancies and to discuss potential new therapeutic advances.
Objectives: At the end of the meeting the participants will be educated about innate and adaptive immunity and the how perturbation of these can result in skin diseases.
*Group booking for groups of 5 or more
(PhD students / Non-Clinical Scientists)
Registration Details:
Student Members: £5
RSM Trainee: £15
Fellow: £25
Allied Health Professional: £30
Associate: £25
Consultant/GP: £55
Group booking: £15
Student/Clinical Scientist: £20
Trainee: £35
Meeting ref: CAA03
CPD: 4 credits
1.30 pm |
Registration, tea and coffee |
2.00 pm |
Welcome and introduction |
2.05 pm |
Overview of toll receptors |
| Professor Luke O'Neill, Trinity College Dublin | |
2.35 pm |
Innate immunity and atopic eczema |
| Professor Tilo Biedermann, Tubingen, Germany | |
3.05 pm |
The inflammasome and relevance to skin disease |
| Dr Helen Lachmann, Royal Free Hospital, London | |
3.35 pm |
Overlap between innate and adaptive immunity |
| Professor Arne Akbar, University College London | |
4.05 pm |
Questions and panel discussion |
4.20 pm |
Tea and coffee break |
4.40 pm |
Dendritic cells, inflammation and cancer |
| Professor Frank Nestle, St John's Institute of Dermatology, London | |
5.10 pm |
The role of regulatory T cells in photocarcinogenesis |
| Dr Karin Loser, Munster University, Germany | |
5.40 pm |
An update on T regs in inflammation and their possible therapeutic manipulation |
| Professor Mike Ehrenstein, University College London | |
6.10 pm |
Completion of evaluation forms |
6.15 pm |
Toll receptors and skin cancer |
| Professor Gus Dalgleish, St George's Hospital, London | |
6.45 pm |
Closing remarks and close of meeting |