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Inducing and Breaking Tolerogenic Antigen-Presenting Cell Function - 05 July 2012

Antigen Presenting Cells

Professional antigen-presenting cells (APC) such as dendritic cells (DC) and macrophages play a critical role in the initiation and maintenance of a T cell-mediated immune response. APC are essential for T cell priming, differentiation and activation in lymphoid tissue and at sites of inflammation. Understanding the molecular mechanisms via which APC function can be...

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‘It was a pleasure to chair the meeting, I am not just paying lip service either, the delegates were very enthusiastic, in fact we put an impromptu sessions on nanoparticles into the lunch time break, this was a request generated by the delegates, so I was very impressed, it was very well organised and I felt my time was very well spent’ - Ian Dimmick, Newcastle University, UK

‘Thank you for giving me the opportunity to speak at your meeting yesterday. It was a very interesting meeting and provided a great opportunity to exchange ideas among investigators in the innate immunity/TLR field’. Dr Michael Carty, Trinity College Dublin

‘I thoroughly enjoyed the meeting’.Professor Neil Gow, University of Aberdeen , UK

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‘ It was jolly good meeting/ Look forward to recieving the proceedings and also the e-mails and addresses of the participants. This meeting aroused my old itchings for revisiting some unfinished science’.Professor PK Das, University of Amsterdam, Holland

‘It was an interesting event indeed with some follow up for my group - a possible collaboration.….I did enjoy the meeting very much’- Dr NinoPorakishvili, University of Westminster, UK

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‘I enjoyed the scientific aspects of the conference also the opportunity of meeting so many delegates in our field’ Professor Ten Feizi, Director, Glycosciences Laboratory, Imperial College London, UK

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‘A big thanks to you and all your team for putting on the excellent meeting yesterday. The meeting place was great, and the organisation was superb. No hitches at all from my point of view. From the conversations I had with some of the delegates, it seems that the meeting was well received. There really is no other regular forum for these kinds of discussions in the UK , so it was a very welcome opportunity’.- Professor. Julian Ma , Hotung Chair of Molecular Immunology, Dept. of Cellular and Molecular Medicine (CMM), St. George \'s Hospital Medical School, London

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‘Liked the fact the speakers were available to answer questions during the coffee time. It was useful having the companies give seminars as opposed to just having them at their stand’- Sarah Burl, Infant Immunology Group, Virology Department, MRC The Gambia

‘Thoroughly enjoyed the meeting last week - just such a shame that I could not stay for the whole day - but what I did hear was very interesting. I certainly will come to more of the events as some of the titles on the programme look really good’ - Professor Diana Watt, Professor of Human Anatomy, Brighton and Sussex Medical School, UK

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‘Good range of talks – very interesting and relevant’ - Dr Lorna Jarvis , Addenbrooke\'s Hospital, Cambridge, UK