Allergy-Immuno

Preliminary Timetable 

Thursday 29 April 2010
  Registration Hall A
17:30-19:00

Opening ceremony
A Darwainian View of the Hygiene Hypothesis

  Welcome Reception
     
Friday 30 April 2010
9:00-10:30

Can Allergic Disease be prevented?
What genes predispose to the development of atopic disease?
Does early environmental control modify the onset of allergic disease?
Does early modification of the diet alter the development of atopic disease?

Hall A
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break, Posters & Exhibition
11:00-12:00 Controversies:
Immunotherapy subcutaneous Verses sublingual

12:00-13:00

Skin as a target for allergic disease
Chronic idiopathic urticaria- still an autoimmune diathesis?
To treat or not to treat atopic dermatitis pre-emptively

13:00- 14:00 Lunch Break Posters & Exhibition
14:00-15:30 Asthma: Where are we and where are we going?
Role of infections in the immunopathology of asthma
TLRs and NLRs in asthma pathogenesis
Gene-environment interactions in asthma
15:30-16:00 Coffee Break, Posters & Exhibition
16:00-17:00

Division of labor amongst T cell subsets: From Bench to Bedside
Contributions of Th17 cells in allergic disease
IPEX:Taking Foxp3 and regulatory T cells from bench to bedside and back

     
Saturday 1 May 2010
9:00-10:30 Practicum on Immunodeficiency
The laboratory diagnosis of immune deficiency
A practical guide to the differential diagnosis of hypogammaglobulinemia in the adult
Intravenous gammaglobulins - its many uses
Hall A
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break, Posters & Exhibition
11:00-12:00


12:00-13:00

Controversies:
Hematopeitic cell transplantation in non SCID immunodeficiencies

Novel Immunomodulatory approach to allergy and autoimmune disease
Protective antibodies: a possible messanger of the B regulatory cells in resistance to autoimmunity
What is the role of anti-IgE in treatment of allergic disease?

13:00-14:00 Lunch Break, Posters & Exhibition
14:00-15:00

Food allergy
Accurate diagnosis of the food allergic patient
Desensitization to food allergens: Has the time arrived?

15:00-15:30 Coffee Break, Posters & Exhibition
15:30-17:00 Eosinophil disorders
Eosinophil: The good, the bad and the ugly
The many faces of the hypereosinophilic syndrome
Toward understanding the pathogenesis and treatment of eosinophilic esophagitis