Program / Programme

November 23, 2015 / 23 Novembre 2015

8:00    Registration and breakfast / Inscription et déjeuner

8:30    Welcome / Mots de bienvenue

8:45    Keynote presentation I / 1er orateur principal

           Dr Alfred Singer (National Cancer Institute, USA)

           Thymic stroma.

           "How T cell specificity and function is determined in the thymus"

9:40    Dr Aaron Marshall (University of Manitoba)

            Stroma and leukemia

            "Signalling pathways controlling malignant B cell migration and interaction with stromal cells"

10:20   Posters / Affiches

11:30   Lunch + poster / Diner + affiches

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

Giustino Carnevale, McGill University

"CD109 regulates IL-17 producing T cells in the skin"

Martin Turcotte, Université de Montréal

"CD73 is associated with poor prognosis in high-grade serous ovarian cancer"

Sasha Silva, Institut Armand-Frappier

"Endosomal TLRs: the pathway used by Leishmania donovani to induce B cell polyclonal activation"

14:00   Dr Martin Guimond (Hôpital Maisonneuve-Rosemont)

            Graft versus host disease

               "Impact of graft-versus-host disease on stromal cells and immune reconstitution"

14:40   Coffee / Café

15:00   Dr Ines Colmegna (McGill University)

            Mesenchymal stromal cells

            "Does mesenchymal stromal cell aging contribute to autoimmunity?"

15:40    Keynote presentation II / 2me orateur principal

             Dr Shannon Turley (Genentech, USA)

             Stroma in the lymph node

                "Regulation of leukocyte function and spatiality by lymphoid stroma"

16:35   Closing remarks / mots de clôture