Rectorate of the Medical University,
Main Hall,
4 Kosciuszki Ave
11 th March 2006 (Saturday)
9.00-16.00

 

Workshop: "Neurobiology of Demyelinating Diseases"

PROGRAMME:

• 9.00
  "Introductory remarks"
  Krzysztof Selmaj (Lodz)
  

• 9.15
  NKT CELLS IN AUTOIMMUNITY:
  
  9.15 - 9.55
  "Development and selection of NKT cells"
  Hugh Robson MacDonald (Epalinges)
  
  09.55 - 10.35
  "NKT cells regulating autoimmune disease"
  Susanna Cardell (Goeteborg)
  
  10.35 - 11.15
  "Regulation of autoimmune diseases by NKT cells"
  Agnes Lehuen (Paris)
  
  
• 11.15 - 11.35
  Coffee break
  
  
• 11.35
  IMMUNE CELL ACTIVATION/SURVIVAL
  
  11.35 - 12.15
  "Exploring the in vivo function of signaling proteins acyivated by receptors of the TNF/NGF family"
  David Wallach (Rehovot)
  
  12.15 - 12.55
  "Notch, a key regulator of T cell activation and differentiation in the periphery"
  Sasha Rutz (Berlin)
  
  
• 12.55 - 14.00
  Lunch break
  
  
• 14.00
  IMMUNOLOGY OF MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS
  
  14.00 - 14.40
  "Cell therapy for multiple sclrosis"
  Tamir Ben-Hur (Jerusalem)
  
  14.40 - 15.20
  "NWC, a third evolutionary conserved gene within the RAG locus"
  Pawel Kisielow (Wroclaw)
  
  15.20 - 16.00
  "Recruitment of regulatory T cells to treat EAE - the animal model of MS"
  Ralf Gold (Goettingen)