Invited speakers

Tentative title of the talk

Christine Biron

Brown University, Providence, USA

Balancing innate cytokine and activating receptor functions in NK cell proliferation

Hugh Brady

Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

E4bp4 in NK cell development

Véronique Braud

Institut de Pharmacologie Moleculaire et Cellulaire Valbonne, France

Mechanisms of NK cell activation in vivo

Michael A. Caligiuri

Ohio State University, USA

IL-1b and human NK cell development

Adelheid Cerwenka

German Cancer Research Center Heidelberg, Germany

Harnessing NK cells against tumors

Marco Colonna

Washington University, School of Medicine, Department of Pathology and Immunology, St. Louis, MO

Interleukin-22-producing natural killer cells in mucosal immunity

Francesco Colucci

University of Cambridge, School of Clinical Medicine, United Kingdom

New perspectives on NK cells in reproduction and cancer

Daniel Davis

Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Imaging NK cells: 1. The size of NK ligands is important for synapse organisation and signal integration and 2. Membrane nanotubes facilitate long distance NK cell interactions

Mariapia Degli-Esposti

Lions Eye Institute, Western Australia, Australia

NK cells regulation of adaptive immunity

Werner Held

Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Lausanne Branch, University of Lausanne, Switzerland

NK cell tolerance, education and adaptations of the NK cell receptor repertoire

Petter Höglund

Microbiology and Tumor Biology Center, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Functional consequences of self perception by murine NK cells

Katharine C. Hsu

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY

NK effects in hematopoietic cell transplantation for hematologic and solid tumors

Lewis Lanier

University of California, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, San Francisco, CA

NK cells in viral immunity

Hans-Gustaf Ljunggren

Center for Infectious Medicine, Department of Medicine Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm ,Sweden

The human NK cell response to an acute virus infection

Eric O. Long

Laboratory of Immunogenetics, NIAID-NIH Rockville, MD

Controlling NK cell responses

Miguel López-Botet

Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona, Spain

Human NK cell response to HCMV-infected myelomonocytic cells

Ofer Mandelboim

The Lautenberg Center for General and Tumor Immunology, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel

Cellular and viral microRNA controlling immune response to stress

Jeffrey Miller

University of Minnesota Medicine, Minneapolis, USA

NK cells and their receptors in cancer and transplantation therapy: exploiting a killer

Alessandro Moretta

University of Genova ,Genova, Italy

Evidence for a novel KIR-associated function: KIR3DL2 mediates CpG DNA uptake and shuttling to early endosomes

Peter Parham

Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA

The inherent limitation to KIR recognition of MHC class I

Eleanor Riley

London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Natural Killer cells as effectors of vaccine-induced immunity

James Di Santo

Institut Pasteur , Paris, France

Roles for diverse NK cell subsets in tissue homeostasis and immune defense

Thomas Spies

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA

Tumor adoption of NKG2D receptor expression

John Trowsdale

Cambridge Institute for Medical Research Department of Pathology Cambridge, United Kingdom

Consequences of variation in human NK receptor genes and haplotypes

André Veillette

Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal, Montréal ,Québec, Canada

NK cell regulation by the SLAM and SAP families

Silvia Vidal

McGill Duff Medical Building,, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Role of activating NK cell receptors in host response against infection

Eric Vivier

Centre d'immunologie de Marseille Luminy, Marseille, France

NK cell competence against stressed cells

Carsten Watzl

Institute for Immunology University Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Integration of positive and negative signals during NK cell regulation

Wayne Yokoyama

Washington University School of Medicine St. Louis, MO

Genomic analysis of NK cells