Why Does Immunity to Parasites Take So Long to Develop? - CIIE Inaugural Symposium

We are pleased to announce that the Centre’s Inaugural Symposium will be held on Wednesday, 8th April 2009 in Lecture Theatre 3 in Ashworth Labs. Please regsiter to the event using the form below.

For the event, we pose a difficult biomedical question that no one person, or even one discipline, will have a definitive answer to: "Why does immunity to parasites take so long to develop?"  We aim to have diverse viewpoints represented among both speakers and audience, and we are hoping for lots of debate, speculation and inspiration for new ideas and approaches to the topic. We envision discussing parallels and contrasts among different types of infections, plus perspectives from parasite genetics.  Importantly, we are keen to consider the over-arching question in light of coevolution.
 

Programme

2.30pm Setting the scene (Chair: Rick Maizels)

David Gray (Edinburgh): Slow immunity: a strategy or a problem?

Richard Carter (Edinburgh): What do we mean by immunity to parasitic infection and how long it takes to achieve it?

Mike Boots (Sheffield): Sub-maximal immunity as an evolutionary optimum

3.30pm Exposure and immunity to parasites (Chair: Alex Rowe)

Eleanor Riley (LSHTM): Is human immunity to malaria slow to develop?

Maria Yazdanbakhsh (Leiden): Why is human immunity to helminths slow to develop?

4.30-5pm Coffee

5pm How malaria interacts with the immune system (Chair: Kevin Marsh)

Jean Langhorne (NIMR): How is immunity to malaria generated, and how is it suppressed?

Chris Newbold (Oxford): To what extent is the immune system foiled by malaria antigenic diversity?

6pm Synthesis (Chair: Kevin Marsh)

Paul Klenerman (Oxford): Virus specific immunity, the liver and the gut.

6.30-8pm Discussion and reception

 
There is no registration fee, but for catering and security purposes please register using the form below.

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