Program for Infection and Immunity Workshop ASI 2012
Venue: Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre (MCEC), Southwarf, Melbourne
Room 106
Morning session I: 9.00 – 10.00
‘Host Pathogen interaction’
Chair: Tara Roberts
Preethi Eldi (10+2) Role of CD4 T cells in recovery from secondary poxvirus infections
(Paper 413)
Thomas angelovich (10+2) Young HIV+ individuals show increased monocyte
responses to LPS challenge that are similar to elderly HIV- men (Paper 297)
Simon Apte (10+2) Interferon-gamma exposure is critical for the development of
optimal CD8+ T cell effector responses (Paper 337)
Jessica King (10+2) Dysregulation of monocyte migration and increased
immunosuppression leads to chronic cutaneous leishmaniasis in the absence of CCR7
(Paper 175)
Richard Sequeira (10+2) Entry of Staphylococcal Superantigen-Like Protein 11 into
neutrophils attenuating their recruitment (Paper 463)
Morning tea 10.00-10.30
Morning session II: 10.30 – 12.00
‘Innate Immune Responses’
Chair: Seth Masters
Eicke Latz (25 + 5) International Invited Speaker
Anthony Jaworowski (15+5) Antibody modulation of innate immune responses to
blood stage malaria
Bindu Sukumaran (10+2) NOD2 regulation in bacterial infection control and
inflammation (Paper 23)
Motti Gerlic (10 + 2) The NLRP1 inflammasome (Paper 333)
Justine Mintern (10 + 2) Unique regulation of autophagy in primary dendritic cells
LUNCH 12.00-13.00
Afternoon session joint with Mucosal Immunology SIG
Session III: 13.00 – 14.30
Chair: Antje Blumenthal
‘The inflammatory response at mucosal surfaces’
Gabrielle Belz (25+5) ‘Insights into development, lineage relationships and
protection by innate lymphoid cells
Anna Walduck (15+5) ‘Leptin, CD4 T reg and the prospects for vaccination against H.
pylori
Nikola Bascuk (10+2) ‘A cell intrinsic role for Granzyme M: directing inflammation’
(paper 149)
Sri Ramarathinam (10+2) ‘Peptideomics to identify gp140 epitopes’ (paper 406)
Robert Shepherd (10+2) ‘Encapsulation of antigens in whole plant cells as a
combined production and delivery platform for oral vaccines (paper 0)
Afternoon tea break 14.30 – 15.00
Session IV: 15.00 – 16.15
‘Gut Immunology’
Chair: Cecile King
Ian van Driel (15+5) ‘Gastric autoimmunity: the beginning and the end’
Paul Giacomin (10+2) ‘Epithelial regulation of innate lymphoid cell responses and
anti-bacterial immunity (paper 36)
Roslyn Kemp (10+2) ‘Immunisation using sustained release vaccine generates a CD8
T cell memory population in the gut’ (paper 90)
Laurence Macia (10+2) ‘Diet, short chain fatty acids and GPR43 regulate
inflammasome activation and gut homeostasis’ (paper 300)
Iulia Oancea (10+2) ‘An immunomodulatory drug ameliorates both spontaneous and
DSS induced colitis in an action that appears partly independent of its effect on T
lymphocytes’ (paper 397)