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Thursday, February 5
3:00 - 7:30 PM Registration BC Foyer
6:30 - 7:30 PM Refreshments BC Foyer
7:30 - 8:30 PM Keynote Address
Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 01/05/2009 		British Ballroom
Richard A. Flavell, Yale University School of Medicine, USA
Helper T Cell Differentiation and Autoimmunity
Friday, February 6
7:00 - 8:00 AM Breakfast Columbia Ballroom
8:00 - 11:00 AM Cytokines and TH17 Differentiation
Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 01/05/2009 		British Ballroom
Daniel J. Cua, Schering-Plough Biopharma, USA
IL-23 and TH17 regulation
Marc Veldhoen, National Institute for Medical Research, UK
Modulation of Th17 Differentiation and Function
Christopher A. Hunter, University of Pennsylvania, USA
IL-27 and Th17 regulation
Ed C. Lavelle, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Promotion of IL-1 and TH17 Cells using Vaccine Adjuvants
9:20 - 9:40 AM Coffee Break BC Foyer
11:00 AM- 1:00 PM Poster Setup Columbia Ballroom
11:00 AM- On Own for Lunch
1:00 - 10:00 PM Poster Viewing Columbia Ballroom
4:30 - 5:00 PM Coffee Available BC Foyer
5:00 - 7:00 PM IL-17 Signaling
Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 01/05/2009 		British Ballroom
Sarah L. Gaffen, University of Pittsburgh, USA
MECHANISMS OF IL-17 RECEPTOR SIGNALING
Steven D. Levin, ZymoGenetics, Inc., USA
Identification of the IL-17 receptor related molecule, IL-17RC as the receptor for IL-17F
Reen Wu, University of California, Davis, USA
IL-17 and Airway Mucosal Immunity
Short Talk to be Chosen from Abstracts,
7:00 - 8:00 PM Social Hour w/ Lite Bites Columbia Ballroom
7:30 - 10:00 PM Poster Session 1
Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 01/05/2009 		Columbia Ballroom
Saturday, February 7
7:00 - 8:00 AM Breakfast Columbia Ballroom
7:00 - 8:00 AM Poster Setup Columbia Ballroom
8:00 - 11:00 AM Treg, TH17 and Autoimmunity
Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 01/05/2009 		British Ballroom
Vijay K. Kuchroo, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, USA
Reciprocal relationship between CD4+, Fox-P3+ T-reg and proinflammatory Th17 cells
Hilde Cheroutre, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, USA
Controlling Tolerance and Protective Immunity from the Outside In
Speaker to be Announced,
Joan Goverman, University of Washington, USA
Th17/Th1 Ratios Shape Neuroinflammatory Responses
Short Talk(s) to be Chosen from Abstracts,
9:20 - 9:40 AM Coffee Break BC Foyer
11:00 AM- 12:00 PM Lunch Columbia Ballroom
12:00 - 2:30 PM Poster Session 2
Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 01/05/2009 		Columbia Ballroom
4:30 - 5:00 PM Coffee Available BC Foyer
5:00 - 7:00 PM Human TH17 Cells
Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 01/05/2009 		British Ballroom
Federica Sallusto, Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Switzerland
Human TH17 Differentiation
Rene de Waal Malefyt, Schering-Plough, USA
IL-23 and IL-25 in Autoimmunity
David A. Hafler, Harvard Medical School, USA
Natural Human CD4+CD25high Tregs and Th17 Effector Cells
7:00 PM- On Own for Dinner
Sunday, February 8
7:00 - 8:00 AM Breakfast Columbia Ballroom
8:00 - 11:00 AM Molecular Control of TH17 Cells
Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 01/05/2009 		British Ballroom
Dan R. Littman, New York University School of Medicine, USA
RORgammat and TH17 Differentiation
Michael Lohoff, University of Marburg, Germany
The Role of the Transcription Factor IRF4 for T Helper Cell Differentiation
John J. O'Shea, NIAMS, National Institutes of Health, USA
STATs and T Cell Differentiation
Gang Pei, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Science, China
MicroRNA-326 Contributes to Multiple Sclerosis Pathogenesis through Promoting TH17- Cell Differentiation
Short Talk(s) to be Chosen from Abstracts,
9:20 - 9:40 AM Coffee Break BC Foyer
11:00 AM- 1:00 PM Poster Setup Columbia Ballroom
11:00 AM- On Own for Lunch
1:00 - 10:00 PM Poster Viewing Columbia Ballroom
4:30 - 5:00 PM Coffee Available BC Foyer
5:00 - 7:15 PM TH17 in Mucosal Immunity
Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 01/05/2009 		British Ballroom
Casey T. Weaver, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
TH17 Cell and Intestinal Inflammation
Andrea M. Cooper, Trudeau Institute, Inc., USA
Protection versus Pathogenesis in Tuberculosis, the Role of IL-17, IL-23 and IL-27
Jay K. Kolls, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Th17 Cells and Cytokines: Roles in Mucosal Immunity and Chronic Inflammation
Bruno Schnyder, HES-SO Valais/Wallis, Switzerland
IL-17 and Asthma
7:15 - 8:15 PM Social Hour w/ Lite Bites Columbia Ballroom
7:30 - 10:00 PM Poster Session 3
Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 01/05/2009 		Columbia Ballroom
Monday, February 9
7:00 - 8:00 AM Breakfast Columbia Ballroom
8:00 - 11:00 AM TH17 Cytokines
Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 01/05/2009 		British Ballroom
Yoichiro Iwakura, Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo, Japan
The Roles of IL-17A and IL-17F in the Immune System
Wenjun Ouyang, Genentech, USA
The Roles of Th17 Cytokine IL-22 and IL-17 in Autoimmune and Infectious Diseases
Chen Dong, MD Anderson Cancer Center, USA
Regulation and Function of TH17 Cytokines
Mary Collins, Wyeth Research, USA
IL-17F, IL-21 and IL-22
9:20 - 9:40 AM Coffee Break BC Foyer
11:00 AM- On Own for Lunch
4:30 - 5:00 PM Coffee Available BC Foyer
5:00 - 7:00 PM Targeting TH17 in Clinics
Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 01/05/2009 		British Ballroom
7:00 - 8:00 PM Social Hour w/ Lite Bites Columbia Ballroom
8:00 - 11:00 PM Entertainment Columbia Ballroom
Tuesday, February 10
Departure
      *=Session Chair     †=Speaker invited, not yet responded.


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ZymoGenetics, Inc.


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T lymphocytes are important mediators of autoimmune diseases and their tolerance to self-antigens is tightly regulated. Regulatory T (Treg) cells maintain immune tolerance. Recently, a novel subset of CD4+ T cells that produce IL-17 (named Th17) has been identified and shown to be highly pathogenic in many autoimmune diseases. Surprisingly, there appears to be a reciprocal relationship between Th17 and Treg cells in their generation, and function. Therefore, T cell biology needs to be further re-examined in the context of molecular pathways that are required for their generation, mechanisms that are involved in their antagonism and function. The goal of this symposium is to bring the leaders in the field together to assess the increased complexity in the generation of pathogenic and regulatory T cells at the cellular, molecular and organismal levels and discuss the potential impact of these new findings on the development of treatments of human autoimmune diseases.