Eckhard R. Podack (Miami, Florida, USA) "Perforin and Fas-ligand in immune defense and lymphocyte homeostasis"

Arnold Greenberg (Mantioba, Canada): "Granzymes and apoptotic pathways"

Robert B. Levy (Miami, Florida, USA) "Cytotoxicity in bone marrow transplantation and graft versus host disease"

Pier Luigi Meroni (Milan, Italy): "Antiendothelial cell antibodies induce cell apoptosis"

Charles R. Wira (Lebanon, New Hampshire, USA): "Hormone regulation of mucosal immunity in the female reproductive tract"

Cecil Czerkinsky (Göteborg, Sweden):"Induction of immunity and tolerance at mucosal surfaces: Implications for vaccine development"

Gianni Pozzi (Siena, Italy): "Recombinant gram-positive bacteria as vaccine vehicles for mucosal immunization"

Maria Waltner-Romen (Innsbruck, Austria): "On the existence of a vascular-associated-lymphoid tissue (VALT) and its role in the development of atherosclerosis"

Christopher R. Stokes (Bristol, UK): "Mucosal Antigen Presentation: a route for protection from infectious disease, allergy and autoimmunity?"

Hugo Wolf (Innsbruck, Austria): "Oral vaccination strategies against bacterial infections".

Biserka Radosevic-Stasic (Rijeka, Croatia): "Role of NK cells in the liver regeneration".

Jean-Pierre Vaerman (Brussels, Belgium): "Crucial role of J chain in SC/pIgR-mediated epithelial transport of polymeric IgA: in vivo and in vitro data" .

Uwe G. Liebert (Leipzig, Germany) "Experimental measles encephalitis as a model to study cell mediated immune responses in the CNS"

Francesca Aloisi (Roma, Italy) "Antigen presentation in the central nervous system: role of microglia and astrocytes in the stimulation of Th1 and Th2 responses"

Hermann Schluesener (Tubingen, Germany) "Combinatorial genetics in the analysis and prevention of neuroautoimmune disease"

John K. Fazakerley (Edinburgh, Scotland, UK) "CNS immune responses to Theiler's and Semliki Forest Viruses"

Hans D. Flad (Borstel/Lübeck, Germany): "Immunodeficiency and atypical mycobacterioses"

Joachim Müller-Quernheim (Borstel/Lübeck, Germany): "T-cells and macrophages in the immunopathogenesis of sarcoidosis"

Reinhard Pabst (Hannover, Germany): "Lymphocyte kinetics in the different compartments of the lung"

Cesare Saltini (Modena, Italy): "Role of the TNF gene in susceptibility to granulomatous diseases"

Klaus Dalhoff (Lübeck, Germany): "Immunomodulation in bacterial pneumonia"

Thomas J. Gill III (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA) "Mechanisms of action of MHC-linked genes affecting reproduction"

Heinz W. Kunz (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA)

Philippe Le Bouteiller (Toulouse Cedex, France): "HLA-G and pregnancy",

Gottfried Dohr (Graz, Austria) :"HLA expression in human placenta",

Ole B. Christiansen (Aalborg, Denmark): "The possible role of classical HLA genes in recurrent miscarriage",

Chris Holmes (Bristol, UK): "HLA Class Ia, Class Ib and Class I-related products in pregnancy- associated epithelia".

Daniel Rukavina (Rijeka, Croatia) "Regulation of perforin expression in human decidual lymphocytes"

Kenneth D. Beaman (Chicago, USA): "Control of lymphocyte populations in the placenta by Regeneration and Tolerance Factor: A product of the TJ6 gene"

Peter M. Johnson (Liverpool, UK): "The complement regulatory protein CD46 in human reproductive tract tissues",

Victor P. Chernyshov (Kiev, Ukraine): "Functional characteristics of uterine CD56+CD16- lymphocytes in decidualized endometrium and early pregnancy decidua",

Julia Szekeres-Bartho (Pecs, Hungary): "The role of g/d T cells in progesterone-dependent immunomodulation during pregnancy",

Francesco Tedesco (Trieste, Italy): "Response of trophoblast and endothelial cells to immunological attack in pathological pregnancies"

Eytan R. Barnea (Cherry Hill, New Jersey, USA): "Embryo Signal"

Gerard Chaouat (Paris, France) "Role of NK cells in immune abortion and local cytokine networks"

Miguel Lopez-Botet (Madrid, Spain): "Human C-type lectin receptors involved in NK-cell mediated recognition of HLA class I molecules"

Vladimir Toder (Tel Aviv, Israel) "Cytokine expression in placentae of mice with pregnancy loss "

Eric Vivier (Marseille Cedex, France): "Regulation of NK cell function by MHC class I receptors: KIRs and KARs"

David A. Clark (Hamilton, Canada) "At the interface - prevention and promotion of prothrombin activation determines fate of chromosomally normal embryos"

Carolyn B. Coulam (Chicago, USA): "Immunotherapy for implantation failures"

Richard G. Lea (Aberdeen, Scotland, UK): "Cytokines, apoptosis regulatory genes and abnormal pregnancy"

Gyozo Petranyi (Budapest, Hungary): "Trophoblast associated non-MHC polymorphism and its possible role in the induction of suppressive immune regulation in pregnancy"

Astrid Hammer (Graz, Austria) "Expression of the Fas/Fas-ligand system in the uteroplacental unit of first trimester pregnancy"

Michael W. Russell (Birmingham, Alabama, USA) :"Intranasal immunization and genital immunity"

Julie McElrath (Washington, USA) : "Mucosal cellular immune responses in HIV-1 infection"

William H. Kutteh (Memphis, USA) : "Mucosal immunology of the female reproductive tract"

Françoise Barré-Sinoussi (Paris, France) "Transport of HIV-1 through the placental barrier: A model to study a cascade of events which might restrict the transmission in vivo?"

Jiri Mestecky (Birmingham, Alabama, USA): "Mucosal immune responses in HIV-infected or HIV-immunized individuals"

Gabriella Scarlatti (Milan, Italy) "Cellular aspects of HIV-1 mother-to-child transmission and pediatric infection"

Laurent Belec (Paris, France) "HIV and cervicovaginal secretions"

Andrea Lenzi (Rome, Italy) "Methods for antisperm Abs detection"

Franco Dondero (Rome, Italy) "Mechanisms of sperm immunization"

Zdenka Ulcova-Gallova (Prague, Czech Republic) "Influence of immunocompetent cells in immunological infertility"

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