Scientific program
Thursday September 10th
Immune Mechanisms in CVD and beyond (Chairs: Tomasz Grodzicki & Grant Drummond)
| 08:45 |
Welcome Message |
Tomasz Grodzicki and Tomasz Guzik (local organizers) |
| 09:00 |
Dominik Müller (Ger) |
J. Dietl Inaugural Lecture in Translational Medicine: Metabolism and Immunity |
| 09:45 |
Ashley Mansell (Aus) |
Innate immune pattern recognition receptors: The enemy at the gate |
| 10:05 |
Bernardo Franklin (Ger) |
Extracellular functions of inflammasomes in chronic inflammatory disease |
| 10:25 |
Panel discussion |
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| 10:45 |
MORNING TEA |
Immune Mechanisms of Atherosclerosis (Chairs: Tomasz Guzik & Karlheinz Peter)
| 11:10 |
Andreas Habenicht (Ger) |
R. Virchow lecture: Artery tertiary lymphoid organs in atherosclerosis |
| 11:45 |
Alex Bobik (Aus) |
B cell humoral immunity in atherosclerosis |
| 12:05 |
Pasquale Maffia (UK) |
Antigen presentation in atherosclerosis |
| 12:25 |
Ban Hock Toh (Aus) |
iNKT cells and vulnerable plaques |
| 12:45 |
Panel discussion |
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| 13:05 |
LUNCH & POSTER VIEWING |
Inflammatory targets in stroke (Chairs: Chris Sobey & Agnieszka Słowik)
| 14:45 |
Mathias Gelderblom (Ger) |
Dendritic cells in stroke |
| 15:05 |
Thiruma Arumugam (Sgp/Kor) |
Role of NFB and MAPK signaling in neuronal NLRP inflammasome activation following ischemic stroke |
| 15:25 |
Tim Magnus (Ger) |
Triggers of blood brain barrier dysfunction in stroke |
| 15:45 |
Helena Kim (Aus) |
Effect of Th2 Immunity on Stroke Outcome |
| 16.05: |
Joanna Pera (Pol) |
Molecular biomarkers of subarachnoid hemorrhage |
| 16:25 |
Panel discussion |
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| 16:45 |
AFTERNOON TEA & POSTER VIEWING |
Young Investigators (Chairs: Augusto Montezano & Tomasz Mikolajczyk)
| 17:15 |
Andrew Murphy (Aus) |
Reticulated thrombocytosis as a mechanism of diabetes-induced atherogenesis” |
| 17:30 |
Mateusz Siedlinski (Pol) |
Transcriptome profiling identifies novel mediators of angiotensin II-induced hypertension |
| 17:45 |
Tin Soe Kyaw (Aus) |
Killer lymphocytes in atherosclerosis |
| 18:00 |
Joanna Sulicka (Pol) |
Immune activation in cancer survivors – links to cardiovascular risk |
| 18:15 |
Tomasz Mikolajczyk (Pol) |
RANTES chemokine in regulation of vascular inflammation in hypertension |
| 20:00 |
CONFERENCE DINNER COLLEGIUM MAIUS, JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY |
Friday September 11th
Inflammation and immunity in hypertension (Chairs: Katarzyna Stolarz-Skrzypek & Alex Bobik)
| 09:00 |
Phil Wenzel (Ger) |
Monocytes and macrophages in hypertension |
| 09:20 |
Antony Vinh (Aus) |
Dynamic vascular T cell-APC interactions during hypertension |
| 09:40 |
Tomasz Guzik (Pol/UK) |
Auto-antigens, T cells and Hypertension |
| 10:00 |
Jaye Chin-Dusting (Aus) |
High intraluminal pressure induces endothelial to mesenchymal transition |
| 10:20 |
Augusto Montezano (UK) |
Osteoprotegerin and Fetuin - regulation of vascular function: implications in hypertension
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| 10:40 |
Panel Discussion |
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| 11:00 |
MORNING TEA |
Inflammation at the crossroads of autoimmunity, infection and CVD (Chairs: Ban Hock Toh & Joanna Sulicka)
| 11:30 |
Claudia Monaco (UK) |
Endogenous immunoregulatory pathways in atherosclerosis
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| 11:50 |
Myriam Aouadi (S) |
Adipose tissue inflammation and metabolic disease |
| 12:10 |
Przemyslaw Blyszczuk (Sui/Pol) |
Pathogenesis of inflammatory cardiomyopathy - lessons from mouse models of experimental autoimmune myocarditis |
| 12:30 |
Rafal Olszanecki (Pol) |
Mitochondrial aldehyde dehydrogenase (ALDH2) as a new target for treatment of atherosclerosis and hepatic steatosis |
| 12:50 |
Tomasz Dziedzic (Pol) |
Endotoxemia and stroke |
| 13:10 |
Panel Discussion |
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| 13:30 |
LUNCH & POSTER VIEWING |
Immune-based strategies to treat and diagnose CVD and stroke (Chairs: Robert Widdop & Rafal Olszanecki)
| 14:30 |
Karlheinz Peter (Aus) |
Imaging vulnerable plaques |
| 14:50 |
Chris Sobey (Aus) |
Cell therapy for stroke |
| 15:10 |
Grant Drummond (Aus) |
B cell therapy as a treatment for hypertension |
| 15:30 |
Georg Wick (Austria) |
Anti T-Cell Antibodies for Breakfast to Prevent Atherosclerosis? |
| 15:50 |
Panel Discussion |
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Translational medicine in CVD and stroke research (future challenges and funding opportunities)
| 16:10 |
Tomasz Guzik (MOMT; Pol) |
Translational medicine research – funding, centres, opportunities |
| 16:25 |
Discussion of invited panelists: G. Drummond; T Grodzicki; T.Guzik, M. Czesnikiewicz-Guzik, Ch.Sobey and all of the Faculty |
| 17:00 |
MEETING CLOSE |
18.00 Faculty Dinner
Conference chairs
Tomasz Guzik (UJ Kraków)
Tomasz Grodzicki (UJ Kraków)
Grant Drummond (Monash Univ.)
Christopher Sobey (Monash Univ.)
Faculty
Myriam Aouadi (Sweden)
Thiruma Arumugam (SG/KOR)
Przemysław Błyszczuk (SUI/PL)
Alex Bobik (AUS)
Jaye Chin-Dusting (AUS)
Marta Cześnikiewicz-Guzik (PL)
Grant Drummond (AUS)
Tomasz Dziedzic (PL)
Bernardo Franklin (DE)
Mathias Gelderblom (DE)
Tomasz Grodzicki (PL)
Tomasz Guzik (PL)
Andreas Habenicht (DE)
Helena Kim (AUS)
Pasquale Maffia (UK)
Tim Magnus (DE)
Ashley Mansell (AUS)
Tomasz Mikolajczyk (PL)
Claudia Monaco (UK)
Augusto Montezano (UK)
Dominik Mueller (DE)
Andrew Murphy (AUS)
Rafał Olszanecki (PL)
Karlheinz Peter (AUS)
Joanna Pera (PL)
Mateusz Siedlinski (PL)
Agnieszka Słowik (PL)
Christopher Sobey (AUS)
Tin Soe Kyaw (AUS)
Katarzyna Stolarz-Skrzypek (PL)
Joanna Sulicka (PL)
Ban-Hock Toh (AUS)
Philip Wenzel (DE)
Georg Wick (AUT)
Robert Widdop (AUS)
Antony Vinh (AUS)
