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AUTOIMMUNITY: From Bench to Bedside
BIS Autumn Meeting
Friday, November 18th 2011
Hasselt University Campus Diepenbeek, Agoralaan, Bldg. D, Auditorium H5
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Local Organiser: Niels Hellings, BIOMED, UHasselt
9h - 9h45 Registration, coffee and display of posters
9h45- 10h Welcome address (N. Hellings)
MORNING SESSION: From Bench..
Chair person: Piet Stinissen (UHasselt)
10h Bruno KYEWSKI (German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg)
Generating self-antigen diversity for central tolerance
10h30 Jean-Christophe RENAULD (Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, UCL, Brussels)
Interleukin-22 in autoimmune diseases: the good, the bad and the unknown
11h Niels HELLINGS (Biomedical Research Institute, Hasselt University)
Immune regulation in multiple sclerosis: many partners try to keep the balance
11h30 Selected oral presentations
Pratibha SINGH (ULg)
Dual-specificity phosphatase 3 knockout female mice are resistant to LPS and to polymicrobial induced septic shock
Bénédicte CAUWE (KULeuven):
Deficiency of gelatinase B/MMP-9 aggravates lpr-induced lymphoproliferation and lupus-like systemic autoimmune disease
Hannelie KORF (KULeuven):
Macrophages as cellular targets for immune modulation in experimental autoimmune type I diabetes
Evelien SCHURGERS (KULeuven):
Pulmonary manifestations in collagen-induced arthritis in mice
12h30 Sandwich lunch
Poster Session
Visit of stands
AFTERNOON SESSION: ... to Bedside
Chair person: Veerle Somers (UHasselt
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14h30 General Assembly of the BIS
14h45 Selected oral presentations
Lode MELIS (UGent):
Characterization of KLRG1+ lymphocytes in chronic arthritis patients
• Bieke BROUX (UHasselt):&
Multiple sclerosis related interleukin-15 enhances the cytotoxic and pro-inflammatory phenotype of immunosenescent CD4+CD28- T cells
• Nathalie MULS (UCL): &
Upregulation of IL-17, but not of IL-9, in circulating cells of CIS and relapsing MS patients. Impact of corticosteroid therapy on the cytokine network
15h30 Jean-Francois BACH (INSERM U580, Université Paris Descartes, Paris, France)
Restoration of self tolerance in autoimmune diseases using CD3 anti-bodies: scientific achievements and logistic difficulties
16h00 Gert VAN ASSCHE (UZLeuven, Belgium)
Anti-TNF treatment in inflammatory bowel diseases: status and risk for PML
16h30 Closing remarks and Proclamation of two poster awards
16h45 END OF THE MEETING
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