12th International Symposium on Molecular Cell Biology of Macrophages 2003


CONTENTS


Program (June 20, Friday)

PDF file of the program for oral sessions are available (Download, 60KB).

09:00-12:00 Session 3: Trafficking of Macrophages and DCs in Immune Responses 1
(Organizers: Kouji Matsushima & Gordon MacPherson)

09:00-09:40 Visualizing the movement of developing T cells in the thymus.
Yousuke Takahama (Tokushima Univ and RIKEN RCAI)

09:40-10:20 Leukocyte and monocyte trafficking in inflammation and atherosclerosis.
Klaus Ley (Univ Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, USA)

10:20-10:40 Coffee Break

10:40-11:20 Dendritic cell migration in lymph from peripheral tissues.
Gordon MacPherson (Oxford Univ, UK)

11:20-12:00 The in vivo trafficking, relationship, and function of myeloid and plasmacytoid DC precursors.
Hiroyuki Yoneyama (Tokyo Univ, Tokyo)



12:00-13:00
Lunch and Poster Viewing

13:00-13:20
Honorary Lecture: History of Macrophages
by Kiyoshi Takahashi (Kumamoto Univ, Kumamoto)

13:20-13:50
Poster Awards (1st and 2nd Places)

13:50-16:00 Session 4: Trafficking of Macrophages and DCs in Immune Responses 2
(Organizers: Tatsuro Irimura & Teunis Geijtenbeek)

13:50-14:30 A fatal attraction: Mycobacterium tuberculosis and HIV-1 target DC-SIGN to escape immune surveillance.
Teunis Geijtenbeek (Amsterdam Free Univ, The Netherlands)

14:30-14:50 Coffee Break

14:50-15:20 Heparanase at the invasive edge of migrating macrophages.
Nobuaki Higashi (Tokyo Univ, Tokyo)

15:20-16:00 Transcriptome analysis of monocyte/macrophage differentiation and monocyte/endothelial cell interaction.
Tatsuhiko Kodama (Tokyo Univ, RCAST, Tokyo)



16:00-16:15
Concluding Remarks
by Kouji Matsushima (Tokyo Univ, Tokyo)


Any questions and requests to mp2003@dokkyomed.ac.jp