Toll-like receptors – investigating innate immunity and infection

 

The BioPark Hertfordshire, Welwyn Garden City

25 September 2007

 

Abstracts are invited for both oral and poster presentations. All abstracts will be published in the meeting proceedings. In addition, there will be a poster session at this meeting and a prize will be awarded for the best one. The deadline for the submission of your abstract is 10th June 2007.

 

Registration Fees (these double after the June 20th early registration deadline)
  • Standard - £249
  • Academic - £149
  • IBMS - £149
  • Student - £99

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Talk titles include:

 

Introduction by the Chairs: Dr Martha Triantafilou/Dr Kathy Triantafilou, University of Sussex, UK

The taste of a fungus: recognition of Candida by the innate  immune system Professor Neil Gow, University of Aberdeen, UK

Molecular mechanism and crosstalk in the Toll-like receptor signalling pathways Dr Nicholas Gay, University of Cambridge, UK

 

Analysis of innate immune responses induced via TLR7 and TLR8 activation Dr Peter Morley, GlaxoSmithKline R&D, Stevenage, UK

 

Toll-like receptor-mediated viral recognition Dr Sandra Diebold, Kings College, London, UK

 

Toll-like receptors in adaptive immunity Dr Nino Porakishvili, University of Westminster, UK

 

SARM as a Negative regulator of TRIF dependent Toll like receptor signalling Dr Michael Carty, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

 

Confirmed Speakers include:

Prof Dirk Werling, Royal Veterinary College, Dept. of Pathology and Infectious Diseases, Hawkshead Lane, Hatfield, UK

 

Prof. Hermann Wagner, Institut für Med. Mikrobiologie, Immunologie und HygieneGermany

 

Steve Jones, DAKO UK Ltd

 

                                                                                                                                                                

 

Toll-like receptors – investigating innate immunity and infection