Program

Time

Feb. 12th , 2013
9:00 Registration
10:00 Welcome Message
Kazuo Sugamura, Supervisor of CREST “The Immune System”
Shin-ichi Kawarada, Senior Director of JST
Session 1 “Infection and Immunity 1”
Chair: Takeshi Tokuhisa (Chiba Univ.)
10:30 Invited Lecture
Rafi Ahmed (Emory Univ.)
“PD-1 Directed Immunotherapy”		 CV Abstract
11:15 Toshio Hirano (Osaka Univ.)
“ The roles of IL-6 amplifier in autoimmune diseases”		 CV Abstract
12:00 Break
13:30 Poster Session 1
Session 2 “ Infection and Immunity 2”
Chair: Takashi Saito (RIKEN)
14:30 Invited Lecture
Abul K. Abbas (Univ. of California)
“Controlling Inflammation: Inducing and maintaining regulatory T cells in Tissues”		 CV Abstract
15:15 Akihiko Yoshimura (Keio Univ.)
“ The nuclear orphan receptor Nr4a family is essential for nTreg development and immune homeostasis”		 CV Abstract
16:00 Break
Session 3 “ Infection and Immunity 3”
Chair: Nobuyuki Miyasaka (Tokyo Med. Dent. Univ.)
16:15 Shimon Sakaguchi (Osaka Univ.)
“ Genetic and epigenetic control of regulatory T cell development”		 CV Abstract
17:00 Hajime Karasuyama (Tokyo Med.Dent. Univ.)
“Emerging roles for basophils in protective and pathological immune responses”		 CV Abstract
17:45 Break
18:00 Reception
Time

Feb. 13th , 2013
Session 4 “Inflammation and Autoimmunity 1”
Chair: Hiroshi Takayanagi (The Univ. of Tokyo)
9:30 Invited Lecture
Alberto Mantovani (Univ. of Milan)
“The Interplay between Cellular and Humoral Innate Immunity”		 CV Abstract
10:15 Shuh Narumiya (Kyoto Univ.)
“Prostaglandins in chronic Inflammation; A new role revealed by receptor KO mice”		 CV Abstract
11:00 Kouji Matsushima (The Univ. of Tokyo)
“Cellular dynamics of fibroblasts and epithelial cells in chronic inflammation-associated organ fibrosis”		 CV Abstract
11:45 Break
13:00 Poster Session 2
Session 5 “Inflammation and Autoimmunity 2”
Chair: Noriko Sorimachi (NCGM)
14:00 Naoko Ohtani (Cancer Inst.)
“Senescence-associated inflammatory secretome and cancer development”		 CV Abstract
14:30 Masakatsu Yamashita (Ehime Univ.)
“Menin-Bach2 pathway controls senescence-associated secretory phenotype (SASP) in CD4 T cells”		 CV Abstract
15:00 Break
Session 6 “Inflammation and Autoimmunity 3”
Chair: Kohei Miyazono (The Univ. of Tokyo)
15:15 Invited Lecture
Shizuo Akira (Osaka Univ.)
“Sterile Inflammation in Innate Immune Responses”		 CV Abstract
16:00 Shigekazu Nagata (Kyoto Univ.)
“Apoptosis and Autoimmunity”		 CV Abstract
16:45 Closing Remarks
Masayuki Miyasaka,Supervisor of CREST “Chronic Inflammation”