Wednesday 19 November 2003
09:30 - 10:30 Registration and coffee
Selective induction of inflammatory cell apoptosis and augmented clearance of apoptotic cells by phagocytes: a potential therapeutic target
Adriano Rossi/Chris Haslett (Edinburgh, UK)
Signalling pathways controlling apoptosis in granulocytes
Edwin Chilvers (Cambridge, UK)
Tumor-necrosis factor: how many ways to kill your lover
Taco Kuijpers (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Regulation of neutrophil apoptosis by LPS: insights from caspase-1 deficient mice and human cells
Moira Whyte (Sheffield, UK)
Formation of the CD95 death inducing signalling complex during spontaneous neutrophil apoptosis
Janet Lord (Birmingham, UK)
12:45 - 13:45 Lunch and poster viewing
Regulation of granulocyte apoptosis by NF-kB activation
Carol Ward (Selected poster presentation) (Edinburgh, UK)
The response of highly-purified neutrophils to IL-1
Ian Sabroe (Selected poster presentation) (Sheffield, UK)
Gene profiling in vitro and in vivo models of delayed neutrophil apoptosis: a common pathway?
Bill Watson (Dublin, Ireland)
An apoptosis differentiation program in human polymorphonuclear leucocytes
Frank De Leo (Massachusetts, USA)
15:15 - 15:45 Coffee/tea break
What role do caspases play in TNFa stimulated neutrophil apoptosis?
Andrew Cowburn (Selected poster presentation) (Cambridge, UK)
Early membrane events in neutrophil (PMN) apoptosis: membrane blebbing and vesicles release, CD43 and CD16 down-regulation and phosphatidyl serine externalization
Lise Halbwachs-Mecarelli (Selected poster presentation) (INSERM, Paris, France)
Regulation of leucocyte survival by PI3K-PKB mediated regulation of FOXO transcription factors
Paul Coffer (Utrecht, The Netherlands)
17:00 - 18:30 Drinks reception and poster session
Thursday 20 November 2003
Andy Wardlaw (Leicester, UK)
Mst1 and the regulation of granulocyte death
Patricia de Souza (Imperial College, London, UK)
Regulation of neutrophil apoptosis by Mcl-1
Steve Edwards (Liverpool, UK)
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee/tea break
The apoptosome pathway to apoptosis
Seamus Martin (The Smurfit Institute, Dublin, Ireland)
Mitochondria in apoptosis: past, present and future
Mauro Degli Esposti (Selected poster presentation) (Manchester, UK)
ATP/P2X7 stimulates macrophage apoptosis and killing of intracellular mycobacteria
Ian Fairbairn (Selected poster presentation) (Edinburgh, UK)
Mechanisms of induction of neutrophil apoptosis by the Pseudomonas aeruginosa exotoxin pyocyanin
Stephen Bianchi (Selected poster presentation) (Sheffied, UK)
The role of oxidants and vitamin C in neutrophil apoptosis and clearance
Margret Vissers (Selected poster presentation) (Christchurch, New Zealand)
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch and poster viewing
The importance of apoptosis in the resolution of acute inflammation
Derek Gilroy (Queen Mary, University of London, UK)
The importance of resolution of inflammation in the pathogenesis of ANCA-associated vasculitis
Lorainne Harper (Birmingham, UK)
Annexin 1 and granulocyte apoptosis
Mauro Perretti (William Harvey Research Institute, London, UK)