Submitted by Aspergillus Administrator on 26 January 2012
Programme
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Wednesday 25 January 2012
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08.30 – 18.00 Pre-Meeting Workshop
Masterclass in the management of chronic and allergic pulmonary aspergillosis
Open to 35 clinicians
Lead by Professor David Denning and other colleagues.
08.00 – 08.45 Meet the Professor Session
Controversies in immunology: Excessive inflammation in aspergillosis
Luigina Romani, MD, PhD
09.00 – 09.10 Opening Remarks
William J. Steinbach, MD
Session 1: Cutting Issues in the Pathogenesis of Aspergillosis
Chairs: William J. Steinbach, MD & Jean-Paul Latgé, PhD
Chairs: William J. Steinbach, MD & Jean-Paul Latgé, PhD
09.15 – 09.40 Angiogenesis at the mold-host interface: a potential key to understanding and treating invasive aspergillosis
Ronen Ben-Ami, MD
09.40 – 10.05 Aspergillus fumigatus survival in the lung environment
Elaine Bignell, PhD
10.05 – 10.30 Visualising phagosomal killing of Aspergillus fumigatus
Jatin M. Vyas, MD
10.30 – 10.55 Vitamin D and OX40L interaction
Jay K. Kolls, MD
10.55 – 11.05 Oral Poster Presentation: Aspergillus fumigatus supermaters: genome comparison and genetic recombinationJanyce Sugui, PhD
Session 2: Emerging Clinical Associations with Aspergillosis
Chairs: David W. Denning, FMedSci & Omrum Uzun, MD
Chairs: David W. Denning, FMedSci & Omrum Uzun, MD
11.35 – 12.00 COPD and aspergillosis
Jesús V. Guinea Ortega, PharmD, PhD
12.00 – 12.25 Aspergillosis in cystic fibrosis – insights from new and old diagnostics
Caroline Baxter, MD
12.25 – 12.50 Invasive aspergillosis in ICU – are we moving forward?
George Dimopoulos, MD
12.50 – 13.15 Immune regulation in idiopathic bronchiectasis
Rosemary Boyton, PhD
Session 3: Top Six Papers in Aspergillosis in 2011
Chair: Sevtap Arikan-Akdagli, MD & Jay K. Kolls, MD
Chair: Sevtap Arikan-Akdagli, MD & Jay K. Kolls, MD
13.45 – 14.45 and concurrent with lunch
Murat Akova, MD and Nir Osherov, PhD
Session 4: Novel Immunological Insights into Aspergillosis
Chairs: Richard B. Moss, MD & Emmanuel Roilides, MD
Chairs: Richard B. Moss, MD & Emmanuel Roilides, MD
14.45 – 15.10 Innate immunity to Aspergillus
Mihai G. Netea, PhD
15.10 – 15.35 Neutrophil extracellular traps and A. fumigatus
Matthias Gunzer, PhD
15.35 – 15.45 Control of neutrophil ROS responses to A. fumigatus
Keith Boyle, PhD
15.45 – 15.55 Oral Poster Presentation: T-cell responses to several Aspergillus antigens may be detected in patients with invasive Aspergillosis and may be exploited for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes: a multicenter study Leonardo Potenza, MD, PhD
Session 5: Portraits of Non-Fumigatus Aspergilli – What is so Special About:
Chairs: Paul Bowyer, PhD & Karl V. Clemons, PhD
Chairs: Paul Bowyer, PhD & Karl V. Clemons, PhD
16.25 – 16.50 Specification of polarity sites during growth and development ofAspergillus nidulans
Steven D. Harris, PhD
16.50 – 17.15 Aspergillus niger a perfect host for industrial biotechnology: systems biology approaches for the production of building block chemicals
Peter J. Punt, PhD
17.15 – 17.40 Diversity of Aspergillus flavus on crops and in the environment can be exploited to reduce aflatoxin exposure and improve environmental health
Peter J. Cotty, PhD
17.40 – 17.50 Oral Poster Presentation: Unique polysaccharide cell-wall composition responsible for dysregulated inflammation of A. nidulans infections in chronic granulomatous diseaseStefanie Henriet, MD
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