TOLLerant 4th MEETING – Napoli 2017
5th – 7th June, 2017. Napoli, Italy
“Molecular Aspects of Host/Microbe dialogue”
Sponsored by IEIIS
Meeting Venue: Università di Napoli Federico II
“Complesso dei SS. Marcellino e Festo”
Address: Largo S. Marcellino, 10 – Napoli
Organizing Committee: Alba Silipo, Francesco Peri, Flaviana Di Lorenzo, Roberta Marchetti
Registration is CLOSED
Program
download in pdf formatMonday June 5th
17:00 – 20:00 Networking and social activity
20:00 Dinner
Tuesday June 6th
09:00 – 9:15 Opening: Alba Silipo and Francesco Peri
“The molecular code of lectin/sugar interactions”
09:15 – 10:00 Cristina Nativi, University of Florence, Italy
Antigens Multivalent Presentation to Immunesystem
10:00 – 10:45 Niels-Christian Reichardt; CIC-biomaGUNE, Bilbao, Spain
Parasite Glycans as Lead Structures for Dendritic Cell Targeting.
10:45 – 11:15 Coffee Break
11:15 – 12:00 Javier Rojo, Spain
Glycodendritic systems to inhibit DC-SIGN-dependent pathogen-cell interactions
“The molecular code of TLR/ligands interactions”
12:00 – 12:45 Koichi Fukase, University of Osaka, Japan
Chemical synthesis of immunologically relevant prokaryotic and eukaryotic glycoconjugates
12:45 – 13:30 Grisha Pirianov, Anglia Ruskin Cambridge University, UK
A novel synthetic molecules negatively regulate in vitro and in vivo haematopoietic and non-haematopoietic vascular toll like receptor 4 signalling in response to sterile inflammation
13:30 – 14:45 Lunch
14:45 – 15:30 Francesco Peri, University of Milano-Bicocca
Recent achievements on the study of TLR4 modulation by natural and synthetic molecules: an update on TOLLerant network activity
15:30 – 16:15 Jerrold Weiss, University of Iowa (USA)
Novel insights and speculations concerning molecular requirements for MD-2/TLR4 activation and antagonism
16:15 – 16:45 Coffee Break
16:45 – 18:25 ESR presentations (Slideshow 10 minutes/ESR)
20:30 Dinner
Wednesday June 7th
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The molecular code of TLR/ligands interactions
09:00 – 09:45 M. L. Bernardini, University of Rome – La Sapienza
PAMPs and PRRs: the hide and seek of pathogens and the immune system
9:45 – 10:30 R. Jerala, University of Lujbljana, Slovenia
New mechanisms of regulation of MyD88-mediated signaling in innate immunity.
10:30 – 11:15 F. Di Lorenzo, University of Naples, Italy
Chemistry and Immunity of lipopolysaccharides
11:15 – 11:45 Coffee Break
11:45 – 12:30 Thomas Huser, University of Bielefield, Germany
Imaging live cell receptor dynamics with super-resolution fluorescence microscopy
12:30 – 13:15 Sonsoles Martin Santamaria, CIB-CSIC, Madrid, Spain
The Computational Perspective into the Host/Microbe Dialogue
13:15 – 13:45 ESR presentations (Slideshow 10 minutes/ESR)
13:45 – 14:00 Closing Remarks
14:00-15.00 Lunch