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Heat Shock Proteins and Modulation of Cellular Function

16 April 2004

Roben's suite, Guy's Tower, Guy's Hospital Campus, London, UK



Chair:
Professor Ivan Roitt (UCL, London, UK)
Organizers:
Charles Kelly (Kings College, London, UK)
Ian Dransfield (Edinburgh, UK)
Friday 16 April 2004
09:00 - 10:00 Registration and tea/coffee

10:00 - 10:40
Chaperonin structure and function
Helen Saibil (Birkbeck College, London, UK)
10:40 - 11:20
Mechanisms of substrate recognition by HSP70 chaperones
Bernd Bukau (Heidelberg, Germany)
11:20 - 11:35
Peptides complexed to HSP70 generate efficient human CTL responses
Paul Lehner - Selected poster presentation (Cambridge, UK)
11:35 - 11:50
Vaccination with mycobacterial heat shock protein complexes induces interferon gamma and provides protection in the murine aerosol challenge model of TB
Camilo Colaco - Selected poster presentation (ImmunoBiology Limited, Cambridge, UK)
11:50 - 12:30
Heat shock protein and the art of immunological maintenence
Pramod Srivastava (Connecticut, USA)
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch and poster session

14:00 - 14:40
Functional properties of HSP70: characterization of epitopes which immunomodulate cytokines, chemokines and dendritic cell maturation
Tom Lehner (Kings College, London, UK)
14:40 - 15:20
Involvement of LOX-1 in Hsp70-mediated antigen cross-presentation
Yves Delneste (INSERM, Angers, France)
15:20 - 15:50 Coffee / tea break

15:50 - 16:30
Heat shock proteins in innate immunity
Kathy Triantafilou (Sussex, UK)
16:30 - 16:45
Functional domain mapping of the HSP70 cochaperone HSJ1
Paul Chapple - Selected poster presentation (UCL, London, UK)
16:45 - 17:00
The LCA associated protein AIPL1 modulates NUB1
Jacqueline van der Spuy - Selected poster presentation (UCL, London, UK)
17:00 Robens suite bar open

Timetable TBC