GENERAL INFORMATION |
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Accommodations The conference participants will be staying at the Sheraton Hotel, which is located in Ixia, Rhodes, 14.5 km from the airport.
Arrival and Check-in Attendees are expected to arrive/check-in on Sunday after 2:00 pm local time. Registered participants arriving after 10:30 pm Sunday night should make alternative dinner arrangements. Conference Venue The Sheraton Conference Center is located at the hotel.
Handicapped Accessibility The site is fully handicapped accessible.
Oral Presentations Speakers are asked to bring their USB flash drive to the reception desk at least 30 minutes prior to the session. The allocated time for all presentations, unless otherwise indicated, includes five minutes Q&A.
City Tour Buses for the city tour will depart from the hotel front lobby on Wednesday, October 8 at 3:00 PM. Badges are required for participation. BreakfastBreakfast for registered participants and registered accompanying persons will be served at the Sheraton Hotel main restaurant during the hours scheduled in this program.
Lunches/Informal Discussions Lunches for registered participants and registered accompanying persons will be served during the times indicated in this program at the main restaurant. Badges are required for admission.
Dinners/Informal Discussions Three of the dinners/informal discussions will be served during the times indicated in the program. Vegetarian entrees are available only upon request in advance of the meeting. Please contact info@aegeanconferences.org.
Internet, Phone, & Computer Wireless Internet access is located throughout the conference center free of charge during meeting hours. There are computers available in the hotel’s business center for the use of the attendees. Phone service is available for an additional charge from your hotel room.
Certificate of Participation A Certificate of Participation will be distributed to a participant for those sessions that the participant has attended. A participant must attend an entire session to receive credit for that particular session. Late arrivals and early departures from a session will preclude a participant from receiving credit for that session.
Other Information Animals are not permitted on site. Badges are required for admission to all events. All Aegean Conferences events are non-smoking.
No Photographs and Recording Devices Participants are not allowed to photograph and/or record using cameras, mobile telephones and other recording devices during the slide and poster presentations.
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Sunday, October 5 |
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Registration |
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7:00-8:00 PM |
Hotel Lobby |
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Welcome Reception/Dinner |
8:00 PM |
Main Restaurant |
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Monday, October 6 |
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8:00 AM |
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Breakfast |
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9:00 AM |
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Welcome & Opening Remarks Dror Mevorach |
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Session I |
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Introduction to Clearance of Apoptotic Cells |
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Chairs: Shigekazu Nagata and Dror Mevorach |
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9:15 AM |
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Macrophage receptors and cell activation |
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Siamon Gordon |
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10:15 AM |
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Stages of apoptotic cell clearance and their relevance to disease |
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Kodi S Ravichandran |
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11:00 AM |
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Coffee Break |
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Session II |
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Innate Immunity |
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Chairs: Kodi Ravichandran and Siamon Gordon |
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11:30 AM |
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Exposure of phosphatidylserine during apoptosis |
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Shigekazu Nagata |
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12:15 PM |
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Macrophages-tissue specific ontogeny and functions: Intestinal lamina propria and liver as a model |
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Chen Varol |
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1:00 PM |
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The role of CD169 macrophages in dead cell clearance and inflammatory regulation |
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Masato Tanaka, Kenichi Asano, and Kazunori Karasawa |
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1:45 PM |
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The role of phosphatidylserine receptor, T-cell Immunoglobulin Mucin domain-4 (TIM-4), in Filovirus Entry |
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Bethany Rhein and Wendy Maury |
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2:00 PM |
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Lunch / Informal Discussions |
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7:30 PM |
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Dinner / Informal Discussions at a Local Greek Restaurant Buses depart from the hotel lobby at 7:30 PM |
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Tuesday, October 7 |
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8:00 AM |
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Breakfast |
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Session III |
Specific patterns: receptors/ligands and tolerance |
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Chairs: Keith Elkon and Philippe Saas |
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9:00 AM |
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TAM receptor diversification in the phagocytosis of apoptotic cells |
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Anna Zagórska, Erin D Lew, Paqui G Través, and Greg Lemke |
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9:45 AM |
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Clearing aged neutrophils |
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Andres Hidalgo, María Casanova-Acebes, Linnea A Weiss, Noelia A-González, and Jose M Adrover |
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10:30 AM |
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The satiated macrophage: a key player in the resolution of inflammation |
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Amiram Ariel, Senthil Kumaran Sathyanarayanan, and Sagie Schif-Zuck |
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10:45 AM |
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PIKfyve-mediated membrane fission regulates dead cell clearance during phagocytosis and entosis |
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Shefali Krishna, Oliver Florey, Yongchan Lee, and Michael Overholtzer |
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11:00 AM |
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Coffee Break |
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Session IV |
Inflammation and autoimmunity |
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Chair: TBA |
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11:30 AM |
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Complement: more than a “guard” against invading pathogens |
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John D Lambris |
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12:15 PM |
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Distinct contributions of C1q and C3 in preventing immunogenicity of apoptotic cells in lupus |
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Keith Elkon, C Sontheimer, L Colonna, Y Nguyen, and YF Peng |
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1:00 PM |
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Sialylation of anti-histone IgG autoantibodies modulates inflammatory responses during clearance of apoptotic cells in SLE |
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Luis E Muñoz and Martin Herrmann |
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1:45 PM |
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The oxidative burst mediates anti-inflammatory clearance of dead cells in a mouse model of Systemic lupus Erythematosus and inflammatory arthritis |
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Deborah Kienhöfer, Jonas Hahn, Luis Munoz, Rikard Holmdahl, Georg Schett, and Markus H Hoffmann |
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2:00 PM |
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Lunch / Informal Discussions |
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7:30 PM |
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Dinner / Informal Discussions at a Local Greek Restaurant Buses depart from the hotel lobby at 7:30 PM |
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Wednesday, October 8 |
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8:00 AM |
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Breakfast |
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Session V |
Therapeutic potential of apoptotic cells |
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Chairs: TBA |
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9:00 AM |
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Apoptotic cell infusion induces self-tolerance |
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Philippe Saas |
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9:45 AM |
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Retinoids mediate the liver X and the glucocorticoid receptor-induced enhancement in apoptotic cell clearance: Therapeutic implications |
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Zsuzsa Szondy, Zsolt Sarang, Gergely Joós, Ralph Rühl, and Éva Garbuczi |
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10:15 AM |
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Apoptotic cell prevent human high grade graft versus host disease |
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Dror Mevorach |
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10:45 AM |
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A novel mechanism in the induction of cytokine production and Th17 differentiation by apoptotic cells during their phagocytosis, and its implication in autoimmune diseases |
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Xiaojing Ma and Hajeong Kim |
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11:00 AM |
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Coffee Break |
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Session VI |
Clearance mechanisms and cancer |
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Chairs: TBA |
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11:30 AM |
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Autophagy protein targeting of phagosomes and entotic vacuoles |
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Oliver Florey, Noor Gammoh, Sung Eun Kim, Xuejun Jiang, and Michael Overholtzer |
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12:15 PM |
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Dying tumor cell clearance and its impact on the outcome of cancer radiotherapy |
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Kisten Lauber |
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1:00 PM |
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Entosis in injured androgen-independent human prostate carcinoma (DU145) cells as a result of anticancer Apatone® pro-oxidant treatment and during remodelling of their xenotransplanted carcinomas in nude mice |
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Jacques Gilloteaux, James M Jamison, Jack L Summers, and Tom Miller |
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1:20 PM |
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Formation of defective autophagosomes in p53 negative colorectal cancer cells reinforces the crocin-induced apoptosis |
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Amr Amin, K Bajbouj, M Gandesiri, and R Schneider-Stock |
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1:40 PM |
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The role of apoptotic blebbing in tissue homeostasis and tumour growth |
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Michael F Olson, Linda Julian, and Katerina Mardilovich |
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2:00 PM |
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Lunch / Informal Discussions |
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3:00 PM |
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City Tour Buses depart from the hotel lobby at 3:00 PM |
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7:30 PM |
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Dinner / Informal Discussions at a Local Greek Restaurant Please note buses do not pick-up at the hotel prior to dinner. Dinner proceeds right after the tour |
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Thursday, October 9 |
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8:00 AM |
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Breakfast |
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Session VII |
Specific organs |
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Chairs: TBA |
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9:00 AM |
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TAM signaling in Homeostatic Regulation: From phagocytosis of photoreceptors onto identifying new roles for Protein S |
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Tal Burstyn-Cohen |
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9:45 AM |
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Apoptotic cells induce NF-κB and inflammasome negative signaling |
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Adi Tabib and Dror Mevorach |
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10:15 AM |
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Engulfment of dead cells by cardiac myofibroblasts limits tissue damage and promotes recovery after myocardial infarction |
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Michio Nakaya |
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10:30 AM |
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Hypoxic-induced Proteolysis of MERTK and CD36 by ADAMs Suppresses CD47-dependent Cardiomyocyte and HIF2 Efferocytosis by Macrophages during Fibrotic Cardiac Repair |
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Edward B Thorp |
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10:45 AM |
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Neuronal eat-me and don’t-eat-me signals in synaptic pruning by microglial phagocytosis |
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Urte Neniskyte, Eva Haas, and Cornelius Gross |
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11:00 AM |
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Peripheral blood neutrophils treated with sphingolipid analogue drug FTY720 expose an untypical molecular pattern and are extensively cleared by scavenger receptors |
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Malgorzata Bzowska, Joanna SkrzeczyĆska-Moncznik, Aneta Sroka, and Krzysztof Guzik |
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11:15 AM |
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Closing Remarks |
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1:00 PM |
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Lunch / Informal Discussions |
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8:00 PM |
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Farewell Dinner |
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Friday, October 10 |
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8:00 AM |
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Breakfast |
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Departure |
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