Seminar Room 2003
APLAR-ARA Immunology review course
The Immunology review course will be delivered by an outstanding faculty of international and Australian speakers. It is designed for clinicians , scientists and students interested in learning more about how the immune system works and the immune basis for the diseases that Rheumatologists treat. We will finish with an interactive session with an expert panel on what lies ahead for immune-based therapies.
Program
| SUNDAY 7 APRIL 2019 | ||
| Time | Topic | Speaker |
| 0845-0930 | Arrive and register | |
| 0900-0930 | Review of the immune system | Graham Leggatt |
| 0930-1000 | Innate immune control and inflammasome | Kate Schroder |
| 1000-1030 | B cells, antibody production and autoantibodies | Hans Ulrich Scherer |
| 1030-1100 | Coffee Break | |
| 1100-1130 | Adaptive immunity and tolerance | Ray Steptoe |
| 1130-1200 | Unconventional and innate cells | Dan Pellicci |
| 1200-1230 | Host-microbe interactions: microbiome | Kristen Demoruelle |
| 1230-1330 | Lunch Break | |
| 1330-1400 | Rheumatoid arthritis pathogenesis | Lars Klareskog |
| 1400-1430 | The gut immune system and IBD | Jake Begun |
| 1430-1500 | Organ-specific autoimmunity: myositis | Ingrid Lundberg |
| 1500-1530 | Coffee Break | |
| 1530-1600 | Tolerance and tolerising therapies | Ranjeny Thomas |
| 1600-1630 | Promise and challenges of cancer immunotherapy | Riccardo Dolcetti |
| 1630-1700 | What lies ahead: my dream ticket | Panel: Matt Brown, Ranjeny Thomas, Lars Klareskog, Ingrid Lundberg, Malcolm Handel |
