Program / Programme

8:00    Registration and breakfast / Inscription et déjeuner

8:30    Welcome / Mots de bienvenue

8:45    Keynote presentation I / 1er orateur principal

            Skin immunology -

            Dr Wendy Havran, Scripps Institute [more/plus d'info]

            Immune responses in the skin.  

9:40    Lung immunology - 

            Dr Manel Jordana, McMaster University  [more/plus d'info].

            Immune reactions against household allergens and asthma.

10:20   Posters / Affiches

11:30   Lunch + poster / Diner + affiches

13:00   Student talks / Presentations des étudiants (15+5 min each)

Marc-André Lécuyer - Alcam regulates BBB integrity and plays an important dual role in neuroinflammation (Université de Montréal, laboratory Dr A Prat).

Belma M Abidin - Frizzled 6 is required for maintenance and lineage priming of murine hematopoietic stem/progenitor cells (Institut Armand Frappier, laboratory Dr K Heinonen).

Khalid Bin Dhuban - Co-expression of tigit and Fcrl3 identifies human Helios+ Treg cells (McGill University, laboratory Dr C Piccirillo).

14:00   Genital immunity -

             Dr Michel Roger, CRCHUM [more/plus d'info]

             Genital mucosa immune responses in HIV-resistant women.

14:40   Coffee / Café

15:00    Gut immunology - 

              Dr Duane Wesemann, Harvard University [more/plus d'info].

              Influence of microbiota on B cell development in the gut.

15:40   Keynote presentation II / 2me orateur principal

             Dr James P. Di Santo, Institut Pasteur [more/plus d'info]

             Transcriptional regulation of innate lymphoid cell differentiation    

16:35   Closing remarks / mots de clôture