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Talks included:

• Toll-like receptors in Helicobacter pylori infection & immunity:

 Dr Sinead Smith, Ussher Assistant Professor, Dept. of Clinical Medicine, Dublin, Ireland

• Macrophage plasticity in normal and disturbed immunity: the key role of the switch macrophage phenotype:

 Dr Igor Malyshev, Head of the Department of Pathophysiology, Moscow State University of Medicine and Dentistry, NJ, USA

• Role of novel macrophage derived mediators at regulating tissue repair and regeneration:

 Dr Jesmond Dalli, Brigham’s and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Institute of Medicine, Boston Ma, USA

• Collagenous complement- activating pattern recognition molecules: sructure, mode of activation, and their involvement in antimicrobial defense and homeostasis:

 Professor Jens Christian Jensenius , Department of Biomedicine, Aarhus University, Denmark, Germany.

• The role of microRNA and autophagy in innate immune responses to pathogens:

 Dr Amal Amer, Associate Professor, Department of Microbial Infection and Immunity, Center for Microbial Interface Biology, Ohio State University

• Surfactant Protein A and D: To bind or not to bind :

 Dr Jens Madsen, Sir Henry Wellcome Laboratories, Clinical and Experimental Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK

• Heat-shock proteins in the regulation of inflammations:

 Dr Gaetan Jego, Associate professor, University of Burgundy, France

• In vivo expansion of regulatory neutrophils with a GPCR19 agonist ameliorates systemic inflammation:

 Dr SY Seong, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Korea

• Ocular surface innate immunity:

Professor Rachel Redfern, Assistant Professor, University of Houston, College of Optometry, Houston, Texas, USA

• Ocular Surface Innate Defence Mechanisms and How they are Compromised by Contact Lens Wear:  

Professor Alison M McDermott, Golden-Golden Professor, Professor of Optometry and Vision Sciences, Professor of Biology and Biochemistry, The Ocular Surface Institute (TOSI), University of Houston, College of Optometry, TX, USA

• Potentiation of the CD8 antiviral activity (CAF) by Thymosin alpha1:new opportunities for immunomodulation during antiretroviral infections:

 Dr Claudia Matteucci, University of Rome “Tor Vergata” , Rome, Italy

• Chemoattactant chemerin, a novel player  in cutaneous defence:

 Dr Joanna Cichy, Faculty of Biochemistry, Biophycics & Biotechnology, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland

• Innate Immunity in Atherosclerosis:

 Professor Alexander N. Orekhov, Institute of General Pathology and Pathophysiology, Director Institute for Atherosclerosis Research (Skolkovo), Moscow, Russia.

• Endocannabinoids are master regulatory bioactive lipids of Innate immunity-driven neuroinflammation:

 Dr Valerio Chiurchiù, European Center for Brain Research (CERC), Laboratory of Neurochemistry of Lipids, IRCCS Fondazione S. Lucia, Rome, Italy

• A newly identified innate immune response to HIV infection:

 Professor Áine McKnight, Professor of Viral Pathology, Queen Mary University of London, Blizard Institute, London, UK

• A Spaetzle-like role for Nerve Growth Factor b in vertebrate immunity to Staphylococcus aureus:

 Dr R. Andres Floto, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, University of Cambridge, UK

• New insights into the regulation of ILC2s – The enhancement and suppression of allergic lung inflammation:

 Dr Grace Poon, University of British Columbia, Canada.

• Tityus serrulatus venom induces inflammation dependent on TLRs recognition and inflammasome activation:  

Dr Lucia Helena Faccioli, Universidade de São Paulo – Faculdade de Ciências Farmacêuticas de Ribeirão Preto, Brazil

• Small molecule modulators of Toll-Like Receptor 4 (TLR4): a new generation of therapeutics:

 Dr Francesco Peri, MSCA-ETN action, Horizon 2020 programme, Department of  Biotechnology and Biosciences, University of Milano Bicocca, Italy

• Macrophages: The Origin and Purveyor of Immunity in Animals:

Dr Charles D. Mills, Director, BioMedical Consultants, Marine on St. Croix, MN, USA

• Regulation of the innate immune response by sterile injury and inflammasomes:

Dr Pablo Pelegrin, PhD, Principal Investigator Inflammation and Experimental Surgery Research Unit Murcia Biomedical Research Institute (IMIB) Hospital Virgen de la Arrixaca – Foundation for Healthcare Training & Research of the Region of Murcia (FFIS), Murcia, Spain

               

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