SATURDAY |
1:00 pm - 5:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
3:30 pm - 3:45 pm | Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome by the GRS Conference Chair |
3:45 pm - 4:30 pm | Chemotaxis of Inflammatory Cells |
| Discussion Leader: Marco A.O. Magalhaes (Albert Einstein College of Medicine, NY, USA) |
3:45 pm - 4:00 pm | Athanassios Dovas (Albert Einstein College of Medicine, NY, USA) "Phospho-dependent interaction between WASp and Intersectin-2L regulates macrophage chemotaxis" |
4:00 pm - 4:05 pm | Discussion |
4:05 pm - 4:20 pm | Robert Pick (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat München, Germany) "Adhesion strengthening, spreading and crawling of neutrophils critically depend on coronin 1A" |
4:20 pm - 4:25 pm | Discussion |
4:25 pm - 4:30 pm | General Discussion |
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session I |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Host-Pathogen Interactions |
| Discussion Leader: Michelle Lennartz (Albany Medical College, NY, USA) and Amber T. Kaplan (Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, CA, USA) |
7:30 pm - 7:50 pm | Kan Chen (Brigham and Women's Hospital, MA, USA) "A role for FcgammaRIIIB in neutrophil recruitment and clearance of intravascular immune complexes: Implications for autoimmune disease" |
7:50 pm - 8:00 pm | Discussion |
8:00 pm - 8:20 pm | Michael J. Davis (University of Michigan, MI, USA) "Inducible lysosome renitence inhibits Listeria infection in macrophages" |
8:20 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
8:30 pm - 8:50 pm | Matthew Long (University of Iowa, IA, USA) "Francisella tularensis mutants with defects in LPS O-antigen and capsule biosynthesis exhibit pleiotropic virulence defects and induce rapid macrophage death" |
8:50 pm - 9:00 pm | Discussion |
9:00 pm - 9:20 pm | Fabio Munari (Venetian Institute of Molecular Medicine, Italy) "Macrophages and neutrophils as major source of APRIL and BLyS in Helicobacter pylori sustained pathologies." |
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
SUNDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 11:00 am | Phagosome Maturation |
| Discussion Leader: Becky A. Diebold (Emory University, GA, USA) and Shashank Shekhar (University of Twente, Netherlands) |
9:00 am - 9:20 am | Paula Nunes (University of Geneva, Switzerland) "STIM1-mediated recruitment of ER membranes to nascent phagosomes." |
9:20 am - 9:30 am | Discussion |
9:30 am - 9:50 am | Helen Sarantis (Hospital for Sick Children, Canada) "A role for Rab5 in bacterial entry into host cells" |
9:50 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am - 10:20 am | Christine Becker (Massachusetts General Hospital, MA, USA) "A lysosomal resident GTPase that interacts with caspase-1 and is important for regulating trafficking in the innate immune system" |
10:20 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
10:30 am - 10:50 am | Michal Bohdanowicz (Hospital for Sick Children, Canada) "APPL1 recruits two phosphoinositide 5-phosphatases that reduce Akt activation during phagocytosis." |
10:50 am - 11:00 am | Discussion |
11:00 am - 12:30 pm | Poster Session II |
| Coffee will be served in the poster area from 11:00 am - 11:30 am |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm | Mentorship Session |
| Discussion Leader: Lee-Ann Allen (University of Iowa, IA, USA) |
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm | Sergio Grinstein (Hospital for Sick Children, Canada) "The Big Transition: From Ph.D. to Career" |
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | Evaluation Period |
| Fill out GRS Evaluation Forms |
3:00 pm | Gordon Research Seminar ends. For those attending the associated Gordon Research Conference, please check in at the GRC Office beginning at 4:00 pm. |