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PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
CSI Program 2012 / Programme de la SCI
2012
25th Annual
Spring Meeting of the Canadian Society for
Immunology
25
ème Réunion Annuelle de la Société
Canadienne pour l'Immunologie
Sheraton Hotel Newfoundland, St. John's, Newfoundland
June 15 - 18, 2012 / 15 - 18, Juin
2012
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Friday, June 15 / Vendredi, 15 Juin
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16:00 - 18:00
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CSI
Council
Meeting / Réunion du
Conseil de la SCI
(CSI Council
only)
(Viking Suite)
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15:00 - 20:00
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Exhibitor Set-up / Installation des exposants (Fort William Ballroom B,C,D)
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15:00 - 21:00
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Registration / Inscriptions (Fort William Foyer)
Poster
Set-up / Installation des affiches
(Fort William Ballroom B,C,D)
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18:30 - 20:00
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Buffet
Dinner (Avalon/Battery & Court Garden)
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20:00
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20:30 -
21:30
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Keynote Address (Fort William Ballroom
A)
Treg Control of Non-immunological Processes
Dr. Diane J. Mathis,
Professor and Division Head, Department of Microbiology and Immunology; Division of Immunology, Harvard Medical School, Director of the JDRF Center on Immunological Tolerance in Type-1 Diabetes, Boston, MA, USA
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21:30 - 23:30
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Opening
Reception
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Réception díouverture (Fort William Ballroom
B,C,D)
Meet the
Exhibitors / Rencontre des
exposants
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Saturday, June 16 / Samedi 16 Juin
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07:00
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07:00 - 09:00
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Breakfast / Déjeûner Poster Set-up
/ Installation des affiches (Avalon/Battery & Court Garden)
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08:30
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09:00 - 12:00
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Symposium I (Fort William Ballroom A)
Immunometabolism
Chair:
Dr. Russel G. Jones, McGill University, Montreal, PQ
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09:00 - 09:30
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Regulation of Inflammatory T Cell Function by LKB1-AMPK Signaling
Dr. Russell G. Jones, Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology, McGill University, Montreal, PQ, Canada
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09:30 - 10:00
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Mitrochondrial Plasticity Dictates Memory CD8+ T Cell Fate
Dr. Erika Pearce, Assistant Member, Trudeau Institute, Saranac Lake, NY, USA
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10:00 - 10:30
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Autophagy as a Central Regulator of Memory T Cell Function
Dr. Julian J. Lum, Scientist, BC Cancer Agency; Adjunct Assistant Professor, Biochemistry and Microbiology, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
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10:30 - 11:00
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Refreshment Break / Pause Café
(Fort William Ballroom
B,C,D)
Meet the Exhibitors / Rencontre des
exposants
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11:00 - 11:30
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Regulation of CD4+ T Cell Function Through Metabolism
Dr. Jeffrey C. Rathmell, Associate Professor, Pharmacology and Cancer Biology; Director, Graduate Studies, Pharmacology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
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11:30 - 12:00
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Liver X Receptors (LXR) and Innate Immune Function
Dr. Steven J. Bensinger,
Assistant Professor, Institute for Molecular Medicine, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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12:00 - 14:00
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Buffet Lunch /
Dîner (Avalon/Battery & Court Garden)
Poster Set-up,
Recreation / Installation des affiches, Pause
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Sponsored by / Parrainé par:
Miltenyi Biotec, Inc., StemCell Technologies
Inc.
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Concurrent
Sessions:
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14:30 - 16:30
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Workshop 1 / Atelier 1
(Garrison Room)
Leukocyte Development, Activation and
Signaling
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14:30 -
16:30
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Workshop 2 / Atelier 2
(Signal Room)
Immune Mediated Diseases: Tolerance, Autoimmunity and Inflammation
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16:30
-18:30
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Registrants on their own for leisure
activity
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18:30 - 20:00
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Buffet
Dinner / Souper (Avalon/Battery & Court Garden)
Cash bar
/ bar payant
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20:00 - 22:30
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1st Poster Session / 1ère Séance
díaffiches (Fort William Ballroom
B,C,D)
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20:00 - 22:30
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Meet the
Exhibitors / Rencontre des
exposants (Fort William Ballroom
B,C,D)
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| 22:30 |
Poster Presenters to Remove Saturday
Posters
Exhibits Close / Fermeture des exposants
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| Sunday, June 17 / Dimanche 17 Juin |
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07:00 - 09:00
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Breakfast / Déjeûner (Avalon/Battery & Court Garden)
Poster Set-up / Installation des
affiches (Fort William Ballroom
B,C,D)
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08:30
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Meet the Exhibitors / Rencontre des exposants (Fort William Ballroom
B,C,D)
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09:00 - 12:00
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Symposium II
(Fort William Ballroom A)
From Hematopoiesis to Immunity
Chair: Dr. JC Zúñiga-Pflücker,
University of Toronto
Co-Chair: Dr. Troy Baldwin, University of Alberta
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09:00 - 09:30
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Core Binding Factors in Hematopoiesis
Dr. Nancy A. Speck, Professor, Department of Cell and Devleopmental Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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09:30 - 10:00
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Understanding Normal and Disease Processes in the Thymus Through Global Transcriptional Profiling
Dr. Howard Petrie, Professor, Department of Cancer Biology, Scripps Research Institute Florida, Jupiter, FL, USA
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10:00 - 10:30
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Human Progenitor T Cells, From in Vitro Generation to in Vivo Function
Dr. JC Zúñiga-Pflücker, Professor, Department of Immunology, University of Toronto, Senior Scientist, Sunnybrook Research Institute, Toronto, ON, Canada
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10:30 - 11:00
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Refreshment Break / Pause
Café
(Fort William Ballroom
B,C,D)
Meet the Exhibitors / Rencontre des exposants
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11:00 - 11:30
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Stage Specific Requirement for Bim During Thymic Negative Selection
Dr. Troy Baldwin, Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
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11:30 - 12:00
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Homeostatic Cytokines and their Role as Adjuncts in Immune Based Therapies
Dr. Crystal Mackall, Chief, Pediatric Oncology Branch, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, USA
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12:00
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Exhibits Close / Fermeture des exposants
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12:00 - 13:00
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CSI Annual General Meeting / Assemblée Générale de la SCI (Fort William Ballroom A)
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12:30 - 13:30
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Lunch / Dîner (Avalon/Battery & Court Garden)
Poster Set-up / Installation des
affiches
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Sponsored by / Parrainé par:
Miltenyi Biotec, Inc., StemCell Technologies Inc.
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Concurrent Sessions:
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13:30 - 15:30
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Workshop 3 / Atelier 3
(Garrison
Room)
Host-Pathogen Interactions: Innate Immunity to Adaptive Immune Responses
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13:30 - 15:30
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Workshop 4 / Atelier 4
(Signal
Room)
Tumor Immunology, Immunotherapy and Vaccines
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15:45 - 18:15
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2nd Poster
Session
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2ème
Séance díaffiches
(Fort William Ballroom
B,C,D)
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15:45 - 18:15
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Meet the Exhibitors / Rencontre des exposants (Fort William Ballroom
B,C,D)
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18:15
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Exhibits Close / Fermeture des exposants
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18:15 - 19:15
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Bernhard Cinader Award Lectureship /
Conférence du prix Bernhard
Cinader
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20:00 - 23:00
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Banquet Dinner / Banquet
(Avalon/Battery & Court Garden)
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21:30
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Presentation of Investigator and
Poster Awards
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| Monday, June 18 / Lundi 18
Juin |
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07:00 - 09:00
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Breakfast / Déjeûner (Avalon/Battery & Court Garden)
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08:30
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Meet the Exhibitors / Rencontre des exposants (Fort William Ballroom
B,C,D)
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09:00 - 12:00
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Symposium III
(Fort William Ballroom A)
Environment, Genetics and Immune Regulation in Autoimmune Diseases
Chair: Dr. George Carayanniotis, Memorial University of Newfoundland
Co-chair:
Dr. Pere Santamaria, University
of Calgary
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09:00 - 09:30
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Harnessing Autoregulatory T Cell Memory For the Treatment of Autoimmune Disease
Dr. Pere Santamaria, Professor, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Infectious Diseases, University of Calgary, AB, Canada
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09:30 - 10:00
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Vitamin D and Autoimmune Disease
Dr. Colleen Hayes, Professor, Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA
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10:00 - 10:30
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The Evolving Story of Thyroid Autoimmunity: From Gene-environment Interactions to Epigenetics
Dr. Yaron Tomer, Professor and Chief, Medicine, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Bone Disease, The Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY, USA
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10:30 - 11:00
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Refreshment Break / Pause
Café
(Fort William Ballroom
B,C,D)
Meet the Exhibitors / Rencontre des exposants
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11:00
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Exhibits Close / Fermeture des exposants
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11:00 - 11:30
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Protection Against Autoimmunity: Some Regulatory Mechanisms
Dr. Elizabeth Mellins,
Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Human Gene Therapy, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
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11:30 - 12:00
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Iodine and Thyroid Atuoimmunity
Dr. George Carayanniotis, Professor of Endocrinology, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, NL,
Canada
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12:00 - 12:30
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Travel Awards / Bourses de Voyage/Tombola
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12:30 - 14:00
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Lunch / Dîner (Avalon/Battery & Court Garden)
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14:00
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Meeting Ends / Fin de la Conférence
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