Thursday September 25, 2014  

Morning session: Unraveling immune mechanisms

8:30:      Registration

9.20:      Welcome and Introduction

9:30:      Vishva Dixit, Genentech, San Francisco, USA
          
Ubiquitin Modification in Immune Signaling

10.10:    Ting Liu, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
               Live-imaging of caspase-1 activation reveals an all-or-none response of inflammasome signaling             

10.30:    Arun Mankan, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
               Activation of AIM2 inflammasome by RNA-DNA hybrids

10.50:    Mo Lamkanfi, VIB-UGhent, Belgium
              Inflammatory caspases: related proteins, different functions

11.30:    Break + Posters

13.00:    Lunch

Afternoon session: Necroptosis and RIP kinases

14.00:    Douglas Green, St Jude, Memphis, USA
           Balancing Act: The control of necroptosis and apoptosis in development

14.40:    Siddharth Balachandran, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, USA
               Mechanism and Regulation of Interferon-Induced RIP3-Driven Cell Death

15.00:    Nader Yatim, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
               RIPK1 signaling in the dying cell regulates cross-priming

15.20:    Break

15.40:    Manolis Pasparakis, University of Cologne, Germany
           RIP kinases in cell death and inflammation

16.20:    Peter Vandenabeele, VIB-UGhent, Belgium
              Molecular mechanisms of regulated necrosis, an attempt at an overview

17.00:    Welcome Reception