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2011 - 06 - 21 Annual Meeting of the Workgroup VACCINES (“Arbeitskreis-Vakzine”)
The Department of Immunology is delighted to invite you to the Annual Meeting of the Workgroup VACCINES (“Arbeitskreis-Vakzine”) German Society for Immunology on July 1st, 2011 from 10h00 to 14h00.
Meeting venue:
Department of Immunology, 20A, rue Auguste Lumière, L-1950 Luxembourg
Local organizer :
Prof. Dr. Claude P. Muller and his team
Tel.: 00352/490604, Fax: 00352/490686, e-mail: Claude.Muller@LNS.ETAT.LU
Programm
09.30 – 10.00 Registration,coffee and display of posters
10.00 Introductory remarks (ClaudeP. Muller, Wolfgang Bessler)
Workshop chair: Claude P. Muller
10.05 – 10.40 DeborahDunn-Walters (keynote lecture), Department of Immunobiology
King'sCollege London School of Medicine, UK
Vaccination-inducedchanges in human B cell repertoire (35 min)
10.40 – 11.00 Wolfgang Bessler, University of Freiburg, Germany
The bacterialextract OM-89 (Uro-Vaxom®) protects against bacterial infections: Studies on itsimmunstimulatory properties (20 min)
11.00 – 11.20 MarioSchellenberger , Institute of Immunology, CRP-S/LNS, Luxembourg
Immunoprophylacticapproach against environmental pollutants- achievements and outlook (20 min)
11.20 – 11.50 Nathalie Cools , Vaxinfectio, University of Antwerp, Belgium
Induction of immunetolerance by tolerogenic DC: towards a “negative” cellular vaccine for multipleslerosis (30 min)
11.50 – 12.20 VolkerSchirrmacher, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany
Bispecificantibody-modified tumor vaccine: activation of cancer patients T cells viacognate and non-cognate interactions with the vaccine (30 min)
12.20 – 12.40 Wolfgang Bessler, University of Freiburg, Germany
Treatment ofMicrobial Infections with Gepon (HEP1) (20 min)
12.40 – 13.30 Lunch
13.30 – 14.00 GeneralMeeting for members of „AK Vakzine“, Agenda: Future meetings, Homepage „AK Vakzine“,Funding possibilities, Sponsoring, Other topics
14.00 End of the Meeting