Session VI: B cell microenvironment-regulation of differentiation, survival and function in disease
09:00 - 12:00
Session Chair: Rita Carcetti, Bambino Gesu Children Hospital, IT
09:00 - 09:45 Jan A. Berger, University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center, US
The CLL microenvironment
09:45 - 10:30 Eric Eldering, Academic Medical Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Microenvironmental factors regulating CLL survival
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
(Continued) Session VI
11:00 - 12:30
11:00 - 11:45 Idit Shachar, The Weizmann Institute of Science, IL
Regulation of B cell survival by its microenvironment in health and disease
11:45 - 12:30 Ramit Mehr, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
B cell homeostasis and repertoire in ageing
12:30 Lunch and Free Time
(Continued) Session VI
14:30 - 16:00
14:30 - 15:15 Francesca Chiodi, Karolinska Institute, SE
Imparired B cell function during HIV-1 infection
15:15 16:00 Anna E. Sousa, Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisbon, PT
Memory B cell depletion in HIV-2 infection
16:00-16:30 Coffee break
(Continued) Session VI
16.30 - 18.00
16:30 - 17:15 Davide Robbiani, The Rockefeller University, US
From chronic infection to genomic instability and B cell lymphoma
17:15 - 18:00 Francesca Chiodi, Karolinska Institute, SE and Claudia Mauri, UCL, UK
Forward look and conference closure