SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM
Symposia

Symposium

Organizer

Mechanisms of cytotoxicity and apoptosis

Eckhard R. Podack (Miami, Florida, USA)

Basic aspects of mucosal immunity

Charles R. Wira (Lebanon, New Hampshire, USA)

Immunology of the gastrointestinal system

Christopher R. Stokes (Bristol, UK)

Immunology of the CNS

Uwe G. Liebert (Leipzig, Germany)

Immunology of the respiratory system

Hans D. Flad (Borstel/Lübeck, Germany)

Immunogenetics of reproduction

Thomas J. Gill III (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA)

Immunobiology of reproduction

Daniel Rukavina (Rijeka, Croatia)

The role of NK cell in reproduction

Gerard Chaouat (Paris, France)

Immunopathology of early pregnancy

David A. Clark (Hamilton, Canada)

Mucosal immunology of sexually transmitted diseases

Jiri Mestecky (Birmingham, Alabama, USA)

Local immunity against HIV: Implications on heterosexual and vertical transmission of HIV-1

Françoise Barré-Sinoussi (Paris, France)




SELECTED ORAL PRESENTATIONS AND WORKSHOPS


 The following sessions of Selected Oral Presentations and/or Workshops will be organized:

  1. Immunology of the nervous system,
  2. Immunology of the eye,
  3. Immunology of the respiratory system,
  4. Immunology of the gastrointestinal system,
  5. Tumour immunology,
  6. Immunological mechanisms,
  7. Immunobiology of reproduction,
  8. Immunopathology of reproduction,
  9. Mucosal immunology of sexually transmitted diseases,
  10. Anti sperm immunity,
  11. AIDS in pregnancy,
  12. Autoimmune phenomena in other organs,
  13. Miscellaneous


Symposia will focus on presentations and discussions of local mechanisms representative of a specific system. Each Symposium will include lectures given by invited speakers and followed by short oral presentations of selected posters. Workshops (Posters presentations) will be attached to the Symposia with related topics and/or new ones created to cover trends in the field and interest shown in the abstracts submitted. Contributions of invited speakers and selected oral presentations will be published in the American Journal of Reproductive Immunology (contributions from the field of reproductive immunology) and Periodicum Biologorum (contributions from other fields of local immunity).



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