Wednesday, 14 April 2004
Organiser G.M. van Bleek (Utrecht, The Netherlands)
W. van Eden (Utrecht, The Netherlands)
Sponsors NWO (The Netherlands)
Eijkman Graduate School (Utrecht, The Netherlands)
Netherlands Vaccine Institute (NVI,The Netherlands)
Division of Pediatrics,(Utrecht, The Netherlands)

New aspects of vaccination

Wednesday morning
Chairs G.M. van Bleek (Utrecht, The Netherlands)
W. van Eden (Utrecht, The Netherlands)
Abstract number
09.00 coffee
09.30 – 10.00 Introduction: vaccines in relation to disregulated immunity
W. van Eden (Utrecht, The Netherlands)
10.00 – 10.30 Pneumococcal vaccination against otitis media
L. Sanders (Utrecht, The Netherlands)
10.30 – 11.00 Preventing RSV-induced pathology: tuning the balance between the virus and the host immune response
G. van Bleek (Utrecht, The Netherlands)
11.00 – 11.30 Immunomodulatory molecules from parasites: can they treat inflammatory diseases?
M. Yazdanbakhsh (Leiden, The Netherlands)
11.30 – 12.20 Lessons from the clinical and immunological monitoring of vaccination with MAGE antigens
P. Coulie (Brussels, Belgium)
12.20 – 13.20 lunch break
Chairs G.M. van Bleek (Utrecht, The Netherlands)
W. van Eden (Utrecht, The Netherlands)
13.20 – 14.10 Naturally arising CD4+ regulatory T cells in immunologic tolerance and negative control of immune responses
S. Sakaguchi (Kyoto, Japan)
14.10 – 15.00 Regulation of pulmonary inflammation
D. Umetsu (Stanford, CA, USA)
15.00 – 16.00 Eijkman Lecture
Vaccine design against tuberculosis: learning from the natural immune response
S. Kaufmann (Berlin, Germany)
16.00 end of pre-conference workshop
Poster
Respiratory syncytial virus influences splenic regulatory T-cell function
E.C. Soethout, M. Poelen, and C.J. Boog (Bilthoven, The Netherlands)
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