第18回 内藤コンファレンス

自然免疫の医学･生物学 [II]

組織委員

セッション

SessionA
Parasite and Bacterial Infection

1. Molecular Mechanisms of Plasmodium Elimination in the Midgut of Anopheles Gambiae

   [Elena A. Levashina]

   Institut de Biologie Moleculaire et Cellulaire, CNRS, France

2. Molecular Mechanisms for Malarial Sporozoites Liver Infection

   [Tomoko Ishino]

   Department of Medical Zoology School of Medical Zoology School of Medicine, Mie University, Japan

3. Redox Homeostasis in Drosophila Gut Immunity

   [Won-Jae Lee]

   Division of Molecular Life Science, Ewha Woman's University, South Korea

4. New Signaling Pathways Involved in Insect Immunity and Microbial Pathogenesis

   [David S. Schneider]

   Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University, USA

5. Intracellular Survival Strategy of Shigella

   [Chihiro Sasakawa]

   Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo, Japan

6. Host-Pathogen Interactions: the Listeria Paradigm

   [Pascale Cossart]

   Unite des interactions Bacteries-Cellules, Institut Pasteur, France

SessionB
Phagocytosis

1. Apoptotic Cell Clearance and Autoimmune Disease

   [Masato Tanaka]

   Laboratory for Innate Cellular Immunity, Research Center for Allergy and Immunology, RIKEN Yokohama Institute, Japan

2. Molecular Mechanism of Substate-Recognition of Glycoprotein-Specific Ubiquitin-Ligases

   [Yukiko Yoshida]

   Laboratory of Frontier Science, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science, Japan

3. Subversion of Host Innate Immunity by Pathogenic Mycobacteria

   [Jean Pieters]

   Department of Biochemistry, University of Basel, Switzerland

4. Interaction of Salmonella with its Mammalian Host Cell

   [Jogre E. Galan]

   Section of Microbial Pathogenesis, Yale University School of Medicine, Boyer Center for Molecular Medicine, USA

5. Molecular Mechanisms of Membrane Trafficking and Protein Sorting - What We Can Learn from Yeast and Plants

   [Akihiko Nakano]

   Molecular Membrane Biology Laboratory, RIKEN Discovery Research Institute, Japan

SessionC
Viral Infection

1. Enigmas of Emerging Viral Infections

   [Yoshihiko Kawaoka]

   Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Institute of Medical Science,University of Tokyo, Japan

2. Host Genes and Functions in Positive-Strand RNA Virus Replication

   [Paul Ahlquist]

   Institute for Molecular Virology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Wisconsin, USA

3. Neurovirulence of Poliovirus

   [Akio Nomoto]

   Department of Microbiology, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Japan

4. Defensive Arts: Editing as Intrinsic Antiviral Immunity

   [Didier Trono]

   Ecole Polytechnique Federal de Lausanne, School of Life Sciences, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Switzerland

5. Regulation of Hepatitis C Virus Replication by Cyclophilin B through Targetting Virus Polymerase Function

   [Kunitada Shimotohno]

   Department of Viral Oncology Institute for Virus Research, Kyoto University, Japan

SessionD
Host Responses and Inflammation

1. Induction of IFN Gene Expression by Virus Infection: Shared and Unique Functions of the DExD/H-box Helicases RIG-I, MDA5 and LGP2

   [Takashi Fujita]

   Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, Institute for Virus Research, Kyoto University, Japan

2. Control of Host Defenses by Hepatitis C Virus

   [Michael Gale, Jr.]

   Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, USA

3. ROS-Dependent ASK1-MAP Kinase Signaling in Apoptosis and Immunity

   [Hidenori Ichijo]

   Laboratory of Cell Signaling, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Tokyo, Japan

4. Role of Hypoxic Response in Innate Immunity

   [Randall S. Johnson]

   Molecular Biology Section, Division of Biological Sciences, University of California, San Diego, USA

5. Role of Lipid Mediators in Inflammation and Immune Disorders

   [Takao Shimizu]

   Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Japan

SessionE
Stress Responses

1. Prostanoid-Mediated Body Defense Mechanism and Outcome of their Breakdown

   [Shuh Narumiya]

   Department of Pharmacology, Kyoto University Faculty of Medicine, Japan

2. ER Stress and ER-Associated Degradation of Misfolded Proteins

   [Kazuhiro Nagata]

   Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Institute for Frontier Medical Sciences, Kyoto University, Japan

3. Redox Regulation of Stress Responses and Energy Metabolism by TRX/TBP-2 System

   [Junji Yodoi]

   Department of Biological Responses, Institute for Virus Research, Kyoto University, Japan

4. Cellular Responses to Unfolded Proteins in the Endoplsmic Reticulum - the ER Stress Response

   [David Ron]

   Skirball institute, New York University School of Medicine, USA

5. Transcription Factor Regulation of Cellular Defense Mechanisms against Electrophiles and Reactive Oxygen Species

   [Masayuki Yamamoto]

   Center for Tsukuba Advanced Research Alliance, University of Tsukuba, Japan