Conference Opening
08:45 - 09:00
Idit Shachar, Weizmann Institute of Science, IL
Opening address from the Chair
Session I: maintenance of B cells in health
09:00 - 10.30
Session chair: Andreas Cerruti, Catalan Research Institute for Advanced Studies (ICREA), ES
09:00 - 09:45 Klaus Rajewsky, MDC, Berlin, DE
Regulation of B cell maintenance
09:45 - 10:30 Meinrad Busslinger, Research Institute of Molecular Patholody, Vienna, AT
Transcrtiption Factors and Chromatin Remodeling Regulating B cell Maintenance
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
(Continued) Session I
11.00 - 12.15
11:00 - 11:45 Facundo Batista, Cancer Research Institute, London, UK
The cytoskeleton activates early stages of B cell development
11:45 - 12:15 Claudia Mauri, UCL, UK
Regulatory B cells
12:30 - 14:30 Lunch
Session II - Immune niches in health
14:30 - 16.00
Session Chair: Claudia Mauri, University College London, UK
14:30 - 15:15 Elizabeth Leadbetter, Trudeau Institute, US
Invariant NK T cells and B cell response
15:15 - 16:00 Claudine Blin-Wakkach, Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis, FR
Ostoclasts and BM niches
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee break
Session III
16:30 - 18:00
Facundo Batista, London Reserach Institute Cancer Research, UK
16:30 - 17:15 Andreas Radbruch, German Rheumatism Research Center, DE
Organization of immunological memory by bone marrow stroma
17:15 - 18:00 Niel Hens, CHERMID, BE
The dynamics of plasma cell and antibody populations illustrated for hepatitis a virus.
19.00 - Dinner
20:30 Key note speaker
20.30 - 21.30
Fabienne Mackay, Monash University, AU
The TACI receptor regulates T-cell independent marginal zone B cell responses