Damage Associated Molecular
Pattern Molecules Satellite Symposia

Thursday, June 7, 2007
Sheraton San Diego Hotel & Marina
San Diego, CA

iSBTc

CIS

Organizers: Michael Lotze, MD; Albert Deisseroth, MD; Anna Rubartelli, MD

Tentative Schedule (subject to change)
9:00 - 9:05 amWelcome and Introductions
Professor Ulrich Keilholz, MD
Michael Lotze, MD
Albert Deisseroth, MD
9:05 - 10:00 amKeynote Address
Signaling PAMPs and DAMPSs - role of TLRs, NLRs and RLRs Gunther Hartmann, MD
Session 1 - DAMP's in Acute and Chronic Inflammation • Anna Rubartelli, MD
10:00 - 10:30 amLeaderless Cytokines as DAMP's: Role of REDOX
Anna Rubartelli, MD, National Cancer Research Institute
10:30 - 11:00 amChronic Inflammation and Cancer
Michael Lotze, MD, Professor of Surgery and Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute
11:00 - 11:15 amBreak
Session 2 - DAMP's in Trauma and Sepsis • Tim Billiar, MD
11:15 - 11:45 amExperimental Models Evaluating DAMP's in Trauma and Sepsis
Tim Billiar, MD, Professor, University of Pittsburgh
11:45 - 12:15 pmCellular and Extracellular Endogenous Agonists
Jeffrey Platt, MD, Professor of Surgery, Immunology, and Pediatrics and Head of the Transplantation Biology Program, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
12:15 - 12:45 pmHypoxia-Adenosinergic Regulation of Immune Response and Control of Inflammatory Tissue Damage
Mikael Sitkovsky, PhD, Eleanor M. Black Chair of Immunophysiology and Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Professor of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Northeastern University
12:45 - 1:15 pmLunch
1:15 - 1:45 pmDiscussion on Damning DAMP's
Scott London
Session 3 - Dampening DAMP's • Albert Deisseroth, MD
1:45 - 2:15 pmReversing Defects Acquired During Aging and Cancer
Albert Deisseroth, MD, President and CEO, Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center
2:15 - 2:30 pmAccelerated Development of Glomerulonephritis in TNF Receptor 1 and 2 Double-knockout Lupus-mice
Noam Jacob, University of Southern California
2:30 - 2:45 pmTLR2-mediated Tumorigenesis
Sunhwa Kim, PhD, University of California, San Diego
2:45 - 3:15 pmDefying Death Defining Cancer
Wei-Xing Zong, PhD, Assistant Professor, Stony Brook University
3:45 - 4:00 pmBreak
Session 4 - Endogenous DAMP's and Cancer • Eileen White, PhD
4:00 - 4:30 pmToll-like Receptors and Cancer
Alain Vicari, DVM PhD, Director, Immunology, Coley Pharmaceutical Group
4:30 - 5:00 pmMouse Models of Apoptosis, Autophagy, Necrosis, and Cancer
Eileen White, PhD, Principal Investigator, White Lab, Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine

Creative Commons License
All presentations are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.