Regulatory T Cells and T Helper Cells:
Fundamental Biology & Translational Research
Meeting Themes: Autoimmune Disease and Cancer
Friday 25th April 2014
To be held at the RVC’s Camden Campus, Royal College Street, London, NW1 0TU
Society of Biology accredited for CPD
Programme
08:30 ‐ 09:10 Registration and refreshments
09:10 ‐ 09:15 Introduction by the Chair
Morning theme: Autoimmune Disease
09:15 ‐ 10:00 Pathomechanisms of diabetes mellitus
Professor Anne Cooke
10:00 ‐ 10:45 Interplay between Treg and Th cells in autoimmune diabetes
Professor Lucy Walker
10:45 ‐ 11:15 Mid-morning break: Refreshments, networking, poster and exhibit viewing
(also speakers’ photograph in first 15 minutes of this period)
11:15 ‐ 12:00 In vivo imaging of the cell interactions underlying T cell differentiation
Professor Paul Garside
12:00 ‐ 12:45 Three abstracts presented in oral format (15 minutes per abstract)
12:45 ‐ 14.00 Lunch, networking, poster and exhibit viewing
Afternoon theme: Cancer
14:00 ‐ 14:45 Keynote Address: Linking T cell exhaustion to chronic inflammation
Professor Dr med Joachim Schultze
14:45 ‐ 15:30 Regulatory T cells and allogeneic haematopoietic stem cell transplantation:
a blessing or a curse Dr Jeff Davies
15:30 ‐ 16:00 Afternoon break: Refreshments, networking, poster and exhibit viewing
16:00 ‐ 16:45 Regulatory T cells: a barrier to effective anti-tumour immunity
Professor Awen Gallimore
16:45 ‐ 17:25 Open panel discussion/’meet the speakers’
17:25 ‐ 17.30 Presentation of awards to oral presenters
