Friday, July 19th
6:00-7:00 pm Registration
N225 Lobby
7:00-7:15 pm Welcome
N225
7:15-8:30 pm Keynote
Address by Dr. John Kappler N225
8:30-10:00 pm Reception
N Mezzanine
Saturday, July 20th
8:30-9:00 am
Breakfast/Late Registration
HSW 300 Lobby
9:00-12:00 pm Research presentations,
session I
HSW 300
12:00-2:00 pm Lunch
N Mezzanine
12:00-2:00 pm Poster Session
Courtyard Cafe
2:00-4:00 pm Research
presentations, session II
HSW 300
Sunday, July 21th
8:30-9:00 am Breakfast
N Mezzanine
9:00-12:00 pm Research presentations,
session III N225
12:00-12:10 pm Closing remarks
N225
**Note: Research presentations for WCI 2002 will be posted
sometime after July 8th, the deadline for abstract submission.
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Saturday, July 7th: Morning presentations
9:40 am - 12:30 pm
9:40 am
Robert
Busch, Stanford University
"Stabilization of soluble, low-affinity, HLA-DM/HLA-DR1 complexes by leucine
zippers"
10:05 am
Jeanette Doerr,
UCLA
"A PMT1-like DNA methyltransferase may be responsible for a novel form of human
CC(A/T)GG
DNA methylation"
10:30 am
Ingo Tarner,
Stanford University
"Retroviral gene therapy of collagen-induced arthritis by local delivery of
IL-4"
10:55 am
Break
11:10 am
Joerg Ermann,
Stanford University
"CD4+CD25+ cells – facilitators of T cell anergy induction"
11:35 am
Xiuli
Wang, USC
"Regulation of extrathymic human T lymphopoiesis by HuIL-7 secretion from engineered
human
mesenchymal stem cells in immune deficient mice"
12:00 pm
Omar Perez,
Stanford University
To be announced
Saturday, July 7th: Lunch and poster session
12:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Matthew David Berner,
University of Nevada, Reno
"Interferon-gamma modulates
microparticulate gulcan-induced proinflammatory cytokine gene expression and secretion by
mouse peritoneal macrophages in vitro"
Rebecca Blank, UCSF
"Role of Type 1 and Type 2 cell
responses in granuloma formation in S. mansoni
infection"
Sreedevi Chalasani, San Jose State University
"In situ analysis of the expression of Semaphorins
4A, 4D (CD100), 4F, and 7A (CDw108) in murine lymph nodes and thymus"
Daniel Eckstein,
UCSF
"HIV-1 Vpr enhances viral burden
by facilitating infection of tissue macrophages but does not contribute to productive
infection of non-dividing naïve T cells"
Cyril Guey
"Revealing of 'the sense of
danger' in cells and tissues in-vitro cultures"
Prerana Jayakumar,
UCSF
"Development of a transgenic
model of HIV-1 disease: characterization of
rats coexpressing CD4 and the T-tropic HIV coreceptor CXCR4"
Zijian Pan, Oklahoma
Medical Research Foundation
"Apoptotic cells are immunogenic
for LA-specific T cells"
Akira Toyama,
Childrens Hospital Los Angeles
"Essential roles for IL-7 and
c-kit signaling pathways in fetal and postnatal thymopoiesis"
Eleni Weaver,
Amplicon Express
"BAC library construction,
genome-wide physical mapping, and sequencing"
Matthew Weaver,
Washington State University
"Pim-1 proto-oncogene
contributes to apoptotic resistance in Bcr/Abl cancer cells"
Saturday, July 7th: Afternoon presentations
3:00 pm - 4:40 pm
3:00 pm
Sarah Henson, UCLA
"Discovery and characterization of genes controlling aggressive behavior in human
lymphoma"
3:25 pm
Colleen
Sheridan, Stanford University
"A tale of two NF-AT kinases: PKA and
GSK-3"
3:50pm
Georg Beilhack,
Stanford University
"Hematopoietic cell transplantation for autoimmune diseases: searching for the optimal graft"
4:15 pm
Robert Eibl,
Technical University, Munich
"The multistep model of tumor metastasis: from
cell adhesion molecules to chemokine receptors"
Sunday, July 8th: Morning presentations
9:40 am - 12:30 pm
9:40 am
Richard Smith,
Stanford University
To be announced
10:05 am
Melinda Gordon,
UCLA
"B29 (Igb, CD79b) abnormalities in chronic lymphocytic leukemia"
10:30 am
Miriam Merad,
Stanford University
"In vivo manipulation of dendritic cells to induce therapeutic immunity"
10:55 am
Break
11:10 am
Judie Boisvert,
Stanford University
"Chemokine receptor and adhesion molecule expression on liver-infiltrating T cells,
NK, and NKT
cells correlates with activation, independent of HCV status"
11:35 am
Amy Siegesmund,
Washington State University
"Investigation of the innate inflammatory response to Campylobacter jejuni infection"
12:00 pm
Devavani
Chatterjea, Stanford University
"Maturation of bone marrow-derived T cell progenitors in euthymic and athymic
mice"
12:30 pm
Closing remarks
