7th Esni Course | 20-23 September 2007

Program DAY ONE
Chairs: A. Coles – A. Vincent

Basic Principles of Immunology

09.00 – 09.45
The lymphatics in immunity
(D. Jackson)

09.45 – 10.30
Structure and function of the blood brain barrier
(J. Abbott)

10.30 – 11.00
Coffee break

11.00 – 11.45
Antigen presentation and leukocyte activation in the CNS
(D. Male)

11.45 – 12.30
Have we forgotten about complement? (P. Morgan)

13.00 – 14.00
Lunch with the experts

Basic Principles of Neuroscience

14.00 – 14.45
Functional imaging of the human brains
(I. Tracey)

14.45 – 15.30
Sleep and Circadian Rhythms: Health,
Wealth and Immune Dysfunction (R. Foster)

15.30 – 16.00
Coffee break

16.00 – 16.45
What can you do with animal models?
Imaging inflammation (N. Sibson)

16.45 – 17.30
Phenotyping the mouse: a video overview
of models of rodent behaviour (R. Deacon)

DAY TWO
Chair: T. Olsson – L. Probert

Inflammation in neuroimmunology: basic mechanisms

09.00 – 09.45
Functional epistasis in the MHC locus
(L. Fugger)

09.45 – 10.30
From disease to genes to therapy –
following an oxidation path (R. Holmdahl)

10.30 – 11.00
Coffee break

11.00 – 11.45
Myelin interactions (K. Nave)

11.45 – 12.30
Genes influencing experimental neuroinflammation
and neurodegeneration (M. Jagodic)

13.00 – 14.30
Lunch with the experts

Inflammation in neuroimmunology: applied research

14.00 – 14.45
The role of cytotoxic T cells (R. Liblau)

14.45 – 15.30
Microglia-axon interactions (H. Neumann)

15.30 – 16.00
Coffee break

16.00 – 16.45
Protective neuroinflammatory signalling pathways
(U. Eisel)

16.45 – 17.30
CNS lymphoid microenvironments

and therapy of neuroinflammatory diseases (F. Aloisi)

Day 2 has been organized in cooperation with the European Union FP6 Integrated Project NeuroproMiSe (www.neuropromise.eu)
All chairs and speakers of Day 2 are partners of the NeuroproMiSe Consortium

Organizing Committee

• Rogier Hintzen(The Netherlands)
• Gianvito Martino(Italy)
• Tomas Olsson(Sweden)
• Lesley Probert(Greece)
• Angela Vincent(local organizer, UK)
• Hugh Willison(local organizer, UK)

Chairs and Speakers

• Abbot, Joan (United Kingdom)
• Aloisi, Francesca (Italy)
• Coles, Alastair (United Kingdom)
• Deacon, Rob (United Kingdom)
• Eisel, Ulrich (The Netherlands)
• Foster, Russel (United Kingdom)
• Franklin, Robin (United Kingdom)
• Fugger, Lars (United Kingdom)
• Hintzen, Rogier (The Netherlands)
• Holmdahl, Rikard (Sweden)
• Huizinga, Tom (The Netherlands)
• Jackson, David (United Kingdom)
• Jagodic, Maja (Sweden)
• Johansson, Clas (Sweden)
• Karussis, Dimitrios (Israel)
• Liblau, Roland (France)
• Male, David (United Kingdom)
• Martin, Roland (Germany)
• Martino, Gianvito (Italy)
• Minger, Stephen (United Kingdom)
• Morgan, Paul (United KIndom)
• Nave, Klaus (Germany)
• Neumann, Harald (Germany)
• Olsson, Tomas (Sweden)
• Perry, Hugh (United Kingdom)
• Probert, Lesley (Greece)
• Schwartz, Michal (Israel)
• Sibson, Niki (United Kingdom)
• Smith, Kenneth (United Kingdom)
• Tracey, Irene (United Kingdom)
• Uccelli, Antonio (Italy)
• Van-Evercooren, Anne (France)
• Vincent, Angela (United Kingdom)
• Waldmann, Herman (United Kingdom)
• Willison, Hugh (United Kingdom)