9 th Annual Meeting
OF
The Institute OF
Molecular Medicine
Trinity Centre for
Health Sciences
at
St. James’s Hospital
17 t h & 18 t h
November 2006
INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR MEDICINE
Programme
DAY 1
Friday 17th November
9.00 am
Registration
9.30 am
Opening of Meeting
Prof Dermot Kelleher, Director of Institute of Molecular Medicine,
Head of Department of Clinical Medicine, Head of School of Medicine,
TCD and St James’s Hospital
“Annual Review of the IMM - 2006”
SESSION I
Chair: Prof Mark Lawler, Institute of Molecular Medicine, TCD and St
James’s Hospital
10.00 am
4th Institute of Molecular Medicine Lecture
Prof Michael Gill
Head of Department of Psychiatry, Institute of Molecular Medicine,
TCD and St James’s Hospital
“Functional Investigation of DNA Risk Variants for Psychiatric
Disorders”
10.45 am
Coffee Break
SESSION II
Chairs: Prof Noel Lowndes, Head of Biochemistry, NUI Galway and
Dr Joseph Keane, Institute of Molecular Medicine, TCD and St
James’s Hospital
11.15 am
Dr Alan Irvine
Consultant Dermatologist, Department of Clinical Medicine, TCD and
Our Lady’s Hospital for Sick Children / St James’s Hospital
“Filaggrin and Human Disease”
12.00 pm
Dr David Dockrell
Wellcome Trust Senior Lecturer, School of Medicine and Biomedical
Sciences, University of Sheffield, UK
“Live and Let Die: The Macrophages Response to Bacterial
Pneumonia”
12.45 pm
Dr Ross McManus
Wellcome Trust Senior Lecturer, School of Medicine, Institute of
Molecular Medicine, TCD
“Inflammatory Bowel Disease – Xenophobia in the Gut?”
INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR MEDICINE
Programme
13.15 pm
LUNCH
SESSION III
Chairs: Prof Bill Powderly, Head of School of Medicine & Medical
Science, UCD and Dr Padraic Fallon, Department of Clinical
Medicine, Institute of Molecular Medicine, TCD
14.30 pm
Dr Tom Ryan
Institute of Molecular Medicine, TCD and St James’s Hospital
“Sepsis and Infection”
15.15 pm
Prof JoAnne Flynn
Department of Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry, School of
Medicine, University of Pittsburg, USA
“The Mechanism of Tuberculosis Immunity – Lessons for
Therapeutics Design and Safety”
16.00 pm
Coffee Break
16.30 pm
Dr Derek Nolan
Department of Biochemistry, Wellcome Trust Senior Fellow, TCD
“Innate Immunity and the Origin of East African Human Sleeping
Sickness”
17.00 pm
Dr Gilmore O’Neill
Biogen Idec and Harvard University, USA
“MS Treatment and PML – the Tysabri Story”
SESSION IV
Chair: ------------------------17.30 pm
State of the Art Lecture
Speaker to be Confirmed
-------------------“Title to be confirmed”
18.15 pm
RECEPTION
INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR MEDICINE
Programme
DAY 2
Saturday 18th November
9.00 am
Registration
SESSION V
Chairs: Prof Brian Harvey, Head of Molecular Medicine, RCSI and Dr
Orla Sheils, Institute of Molecular Medicine, TCD
9.30 am
Prof John Reynolds
Head of Department of Surgery, Institute of Molecular Medicine, TCD
and St James’s Hospital
“Oesophageal Cancer: Molecular Insights Into the Disease and Its
Management”
10.00 am
Speaker to be Confirmed
“Title to be confirmed - SiRNA”
10.45 am
Dr Judith Harmey
Senior Lecturer, Department of Molecular and Cellular Therapeutics,
RCSI
“Protease Resistant Insulin-Like Growth Factor Binding Protein 4
is Anti-Angiogenic and Reduces Breast Tumour Growth”
11.15 am
Coffee Break
SESSION VI
Chair: Prof Shaun McCann, Head of Haematology, Institute of
Molecular Medicine, TCD and St James’s Hospital
11.45 am
Dr Roger Preston
Department of Haematology, Institute of Molecular Medicine, TCD &
St James’s Hospital
“Cross talk between Haemostasis and Inflammation through the
Protein C Anticoagulant Pathway”
12.15 pm
7th Annual Durkan Lecture
Prof Jane Apperley
Head of Department of Haematology, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial
College, UK
“Long Term Complications of Stem Cell Transplantation”
1.00 pm
End of Meeting