Toll - Like Receptors
Organizers:
Steve Ward (Bath, UK)
Zarin Brown (Horsham, UK)
Luke O'Neill (Dublin, Ireland)
Novartis Immunology Platform
Novartis Respiratory Diseases
09:00 - 09:30 Registration
TLR family as adjuvant receptors
Shizuo Akira (Osaka, Japan)
Forward genetic analysis of the innate immune response
Bruce Beutler (Scripps, La Jolla, CA, USA)
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
A genomic perspective on TLR signalling pathways
J. Fernando Bazan (DNAX Research Institute, USA)
Signal transduction pathways activated by toll-like receptors
Luke O'Neill (Dublin, Ireland)
13:00 - 14:15 Lunch & Poster Session
A toll-like receptor 7 (TLR7) specific stimulus uncovers strong relationship within the TLR7, 8 and 9 subfamily
Selected Poster Presentation - Stefan Bauer
The drosophila receptor toll-9 is structurally and functionally related to mammalian TLRs
Selected Poster Presentation - Hana Bilak
Toll-like receptor 4 polymorphisms and the systemic inflammatory response syndrome
Selected Poster Presentation - Nicholas Child
CpG DNA recognition: overriding species specificity with novel synthetic motifs
Selected Poster Presentation - Ekambar Kandimalla
Structural aspects of toll receptors
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee Break
Toll-like receptors, CD14 and MD2
Douglas Golenbock (Massachusetts, USA)
Discrimination of different LPS types by TLRs
Stefanie Vogel (Bethseda, MD, USA)