October 05. “30 anos de imunologia no Brasil” (Opening, homenagens, palestra da
Dra Vivian Rumjanek, coquetel, show)
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October 06, Monday

8:30-10:30 hs

Symposium 1. Signal transduction in innate and acquired immunity.

1. Marco Cassatella (Universitá di Verona, Italy). “Novel emerging aspects of
the biology of neutrophils”
2. Luiz F. Lima Reis (Inst. Ludwig, SP). “The role of histone deacetylases
(HDACs) in TNF-stimulated gene expression”
3. Angela Santoni (Univ. La Sapienza, Rome, Italy). “Signalling events leading
to NK cell mediated cytotoxic functions”
4. Chair. João Biaso Viola (INCA-RJ). “Regulation of gene expression by NFAT1
during lymphocyte activation”

Symposium 2. The Millenium Institute initiative: opportunities for
collaborative research

1. Celio Lopes Silva (Fac Med Ribeirão Preto, USP, SP). “
2. Jorge Kalil (Fac Med. USP, SP) “
3. Ricardo Ribeiro dos Santos (CPqGM-Fiocruz, Bahia). “
4. Chair. Jerson Lima Silva (Dept Bioquímica Médica, ICB, UFRJ, e Diretor
Científico da FAPERJ). “

Coffee break

11:00-12:00 hs
Morning conference: Laurie Glimcher (Harvard School of Public Health, Boston,
MA, USA). “T-bet: a master regulator of type 1 immunity”.

12:00-17:00 hs
Lunch / Resort / Social Life

17:00-18:00 hs
Twilight conference: Luciano Adorini (BioXell, Milano, Italy, and President of
the Italian Society of Immunology). “Modulating Dendritic Cell function”

18:00-19:00 hs
Oral Presentations: A, B, C

19:00-20:30 hs
Dinner

20:30-21:30 hs
Night conference: Peter Henson (National Jewish Center, Denver, CO, USA). “The
cell biology of inflammation and apoptosis”

21:30-23:30 hs
Posters-I
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October 07, Tuesday

8:30-10:30 hs
Symposium 3. Microbial Immunity

1. Luigina Romani (University of Perugia, Italy). “News at the interface
between innate and adaptive immunity to pathogenic fungi”
2. Julio Scharfstein (Inst Biofísica Carlos Chagas Filho, UFRJ). “
3. Edgar Carvalho (Serviço de Imunologia, Univ Fed da Bahia). “
4. Chair. Ricardo T. Gazzinelli (Dept Bioquímica e Imunologia, ICB,
UFMG). “Role for MyD88 dependent pathway in host resistance to early infection
with Trypanosoma cruzi”

Symposium 4. Pathogenesis and treatment of allergic diseases

1. Lanny Rosenwasser (National Jewish Center, Denver, CO,
USA). “Pharmacogenetics and treatment of asthma”
2. Glaucia Furtado (USA). “Costimulatory requirements for regulatory T cells in
EAE”
3. Sergio Bonini (CNR, Rome, Italy). “Bacterial products for the treatment of
allergic diseases”
4. Chair. Momtchilo Russo (Dept Imunologia, ICB-USP, SP). “

Coffee break

11:00-12:00 hs
Morning conference: Christian Bogdan (Erlangen Univ., Germany). “Immunity
against intracellular pathogens”.

12:00-17:00 hs
Lunch / Resort / Social Life

17:00-18:00 hs
Twilight conference: Douglas Golenbock. “Toll receptors in bacterial infection”

18:00-19:00 hs
“Immunology in Brazil - Express Presentations”: D, E, F

Claudia Brodskyn, Dumith Bou-Chedid, Aldina Barral, Jose Alvarez Mozig, Marcela
Lopes, Joao Santana, Rodrigo Correa-Oliveira, Vera Calich, Mauricio Rodrigues,
Antoniana Krettli, Walderez Dutra, Joseli Lannes Vieira, Tereza Kipnis,
Cristina Bonorino, Nance Nardi, Julio Voltarelli, Leda Vieira, Veronica Coelho,
Alberto Nobrega, Jaime Santana, Milena Soares, Hugo Castro Faria Neto, Alfredo
de Goes

19:00-20:30 hs
Dinner

20:30-21:30 hs
Night conference: Miguel Soares (Harvard Univ., Boston, USA, e Instituto
Gulbenkian de Ciências, Oeiras, Portugal). “Heme oxygenase-1: a regulatory gene
that modulates inflammatory and immune responses”

21:30-23:30 hs
Posters-II
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October 08, Wednesday

8:30-10:30 hs
Symposium 5. Chemokines in inflammation and disease

1. Sergio Lira (Mount Sinai School of Medicine, NY, USA). “Chemokine biology”
2. Patricia Bozza (IOC-Fiocruz-RJ). “
3. Leonid Margolis (Nat. Inst. Child Health and Human Development, NIH, MD,
USA). “Chemokines and HIV infection of human lymphoid tissue”
4. Chair. Mauro M. Teixeira (Dept Bioquímica e Imunologia, ICB, UFMG). “

Symposium 6. Clinical immunology

1. Gianpietro Semenzato (Universitá degli Studi di Padova,
Italy). “Immunoregulation in interstitial lung diseases”
2. Martin Röcken (Univ. Tuebingen, Germany). “IL-4 therapy of psoriasis”
3. Lorenzo Moretta (Istituto Nazionale per la Ricerca sul Cancro, Genova,
Italy). “Human NK cells”
4. Chair. Luiz V. Rizzo (Dept Imunologia, ICB-USP, SP). “

Coffee break

11:00-12:00 hs
Morning conference: Federica Sallusto (Inst. for Res. in Biomedicine,
Bellinzona, Switzerland). “Antigen decoding by T lymphocytes”

12:00-17:00 hs
Lunch / Resort / Social Life

17:00-18:00 hs
Twilight conference: Sergio Romagnani (Dipartimento di Medicina Interna,
Universitá di Firenze, Italy). “Human regulatory T cells”

18:00-20:00 hs
SBI general assembly

19:00-21:00 hs
Dinner

21:00-22:00 hs
Night conference: Antonio Coutinho (Director, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciências,
Oeiras, Portugal). “Immunology: where we are today”

22:00 hs
Closing (5 minutes)