INFECTION & IMMUNITY WORKSHOP, 5th DECEMBER 2010
Theme: Host / Pathogen Interactions
Venue: Meeting Room 2, Perth Convention Centre
Session I: Host responses to bacterial and extracellular pathogens
8:45 AM - 10:20 AM
Chair: Lea-Ann Kirkham
8:45am
8:50am
9:10am
9:30am
9:50am
10:05am
Andrew Currie - Welcome
Odilia Wijburg (Uni Melb: 20 min)
“The polymeric Ig receptor and mucosal immunity: more than protection against infection”
Gary Lee (UWA: 20 min)
“Pleural Infection – a centuries-old and neglected disease”
Selma Wiertsema (UWA: 20 min)
“Protection against bacterial infection in children with recurrent ear disease”
Sandeep Gupta (AgResearch: 15 min)
“Immunostimulatory effects of RNase 4 and RNase5 on the recognition of bacterial DNA in
mouse macrophages”
Joanna Kirman (Malaghan Institute of Medical Research: 15 min)
“Memories are made of this: memory CD4+ T cell subsets that protect against
mycobacterial infection”
Morning Tea
10:20 AM - 10:45
Session II: Host responses to viral and intracellular pathogens
10:45 AM - 12:35 PM
Chair: Allison Imrie
10:45am
11:15am
11:35am
11:50am
12:05pm
12:20pm
Antonio Bertoletti (Singapore Institute for Clinical Sciences; 30 min)
“Restoring anti-viral immunity in chronic HBV infection”
Martyn French (UWA: 20 min)
“Immune restoration disease in HIV patients responding to antiretroviral therapy: another
dark side of the immune system”
Alec Redwood (UWA: 15 min)
“Natural killer cells drive within-host competition between co-infecting strains of murine
cytomegalovirus”
Frank Griffin (Uni of Otago: 15 min)
“Gene markers for resistance and susceptibility to pathogenic mycobacteria: a deer model”
Erin Lousberg (Hanson Institute SA: 15 min)
“Innate immune recognition of recombinant fowlpox virus by TLR7 and TLR9 does not
contribute to MyD88-mediated and IL-18 -dependent antigen-specific adaptive immune
responses”
Antje Blumenthal (Uni of Queensland: 15 min)
“RP105 facilitates macrophage activation by mycobacterial lipoproteins and viable
Mycobacterium tuberculosis”
Lunch
12:35 PM - 1:30 PM
Session III: Joint Session with Mucosal Immunology Workshop
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Chairs: Andrew Currie
1:30pm
Phil Sutton (Uni of Melbourne: 30 min)
“A novel mechanism of host regulation of bacterial-driven gut inflammation”
2:00pm
Andrew Luster (Massachusetts General Hospital: 30 min)
“Chemokine Control of Effector and Regulatory T cell Trafficking into the Lung”
Afternoon Tea
2:30 PM – 2:55 PM
Session IV: Emerging, Regional and Tropical Infections
2:55 PM - 4:25 PM
Chair: Chris Peacock
2:55pm
3:15pm
Gan Lertmemongkolchai (Khon Kaen University, Thailand: 20 min)
“Human immune responses to Burkholderia pseudomallei: Research at the centenary of the
first description of melioidosis”
Andrew Thompson (Murdoch Uni: 20 min)
“Emerging Issues and Parasite Zoonoses in the SE Asian Region”
3:35pm
3:50pm
4:05pm
4:15pm
4:25pm
Allison Imrie (UWA: 15 min)
“Immunodominance in dengue virus infection”
Chris Peacock (UWA: 15 min)
“Characterization of Australian Leishmaniasis”
Rachael Terry (Uni of Sydney: 10 min)
“VLA-4 blockade mobilises Ly6chi monocytes in spleen, reduces brain infiltration and
increases survival during West Nile Virus”
Rama Jayaraj (RMIT University: 10 min)
“Evaluation of the immune responses induced by four targeting DNA vaccines encoding the
juvenile liver fluke cathepsin B2 antigen in a mouse model”
Close of workshop