PROGRAM

FOREIGN SPEAKERS

Alexander Rudensky
Mechanisms of differentiation and function of regulatory T cells.
Institute: Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Sloan Kettering Institute, USA

Brian Kelsall
Definition and function of mononuclear phagocytes in the colon
Institute: National Institutes of Health, USA

Cristina Muñoz-Pinedo
Starving cells to death: apoptosis, necrosis and autophagy
Institute: Institut d'Investigació Biomèdica de Bellvitge - Barcelona, Spain

Daniel Hoft
Identification of the Molecular Signature of TB Protective Memory CD4+ T cells induced by Mucosal vs Systemic BCG Vaccination
Institute: Saint Louis University Medical Center, USA

Doug Green
Eating Well:  Cross talk between phagocytosis and autophagy
Institute: St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, USA

Douglas Golenbock
DNA and the innate immune response in malaria
Institute: University of Massachusetts Medical School, USA

Gabriel Nuñez
Sensing and Eradicating Bacterial Pathogens in the Intestine
Institute: University of Michigan Medical School, USA

Gary Splitter
Dysfunctional CD8T cells in chronic bacterial infection
Institute: University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

Giorgio Trinchieri
Innate resistance, inflammation and cancer
Institute: National Cancer Institute, USA

Guillermo Giambartolomei
To fight, flee or hide: the success of Brucella abortus as a chronic pathogen
Institute: University of Buenos Aires, Argentina

Janelle Ayres
Lethal inflammasome activation by a multi-drug resistant pathobiont upon
antibiotic disruption of the microbiota
Institute: University of California – Berkeley, USA

Jean Luc Imler
Sensing and signaling infection in drosophila
Institute: CNRS-UPR, Institut de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, France

Juliana Cassataro
A bacterial protease inhibitor is a mucosal adjuvant
Institute: University of Buenos Aires, Argentina

Ken Rock
New Insights into MHC class I antigen presentation
Institute: University of Massachusetts Medical School, USA

Luke O'Neill
Metabolic regulation of IL-1beta in Toll-like receptor signaling
Institute: Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

Marc Jenkins
Tracking the most important thing that CD4+ T cells do
Institute: University of Minnesota Medical School, USA

Meri Tulic
Maturation of innate and regulatory function during early life:
impact of allergic disease
Institute: The University of Western Australia, Australia

Nicolas Flammand
Functional links between endocannbinoids and eicosanoids in the regulation of neutrophil and eosinophil functions
Institue: Université Laval, Canada

Ricardo Weinlich
Pro-survival and pro-death roles of caspase-8 in adult life
Institute: St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, USA

Richard Flavell
Inflammasomes in health and disease 
Institute: Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Yale University School of Medicine, USA

Ruslan Medzhitov
The role of macrophages in inflammation and tissue homeostasis
Institute: Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Yale University School of Medicine, USA

Seamus Martin
Interactions between apoptotic cells and the immune system.
Institute: Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

Thomas Brunner
The gut does it: extra-adrenal glucocorticoid synthesis in the intestinal mucosa and its role in the regulation of local immune homeostasis.
Institute: University of Konstanz, Germany

Tom H. M. Ottenhoff
Discovery of novel M.tuberculosis antigens and biomarkers
Institute: Leiden University, The Netherlands

BRAZILIAN SPEAKERS

Ana Caetano Faria
Modulation of colitis by Hsp65-producing Lactococcus lactis
Institute: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil

Anderson Nunes
Functional Immunosialome from Hematophagous Arthropods
Institute: Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil

Andre Bafica
Mycobacterium tuberculosis: infection, macrophages and antibiotics
Institute: Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil

Christianne Bandeira-Melo
Mechanisms of eosinophil activation
Institute: Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Claudia Brodskyn
Role of CD8T cells in human cutaneous leishmaniasis
Institute: Fiocruz/BA, Brazil

Claudia N. Paiva
Oxidative stress fuels Trypanosoma cruzi infection in mice: role for Nrf2/HO-1 in innate immunity
Institute: Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Daniella Arêas Mendes da Cruz
Neuropilins,Semaphorins and T cell migration
Institute: FiocruzZ/RJ, Brazil

Dario Zamboni
Canonical and non-canonical inflammasomes in host resistance to intracellular pathogens
Institute: Universidade de São Paulo Ribeirão Preto, Brazil

Edecio Cunha-Neto
The role of CXCL9 and CXCL10 in human chronic Chagas disease myocarditis
Institute: Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil

Fabiana S. Machado
SOCS2 and Infectious Disease: Suppressor or Not?
Institute: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil

Falvio Amaral
Mechanisms associated to NLRP3 inflammasome activation and leukocyte recruitment in gouty arthritis 
Institute: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil

Helton Santiago
Helminth-allergy interface: Lessons from cross-reactivity between parasite proteins and environmental allergens
Institute: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil

Isabel Santos
Ticks: what they tell us about host skin defenses to ectoparasites
Institute: Universidade de São Paulo Ribeirão Preto, Brazil

João Marques
RNA interference: the RNA based immune system in insects and plants
Institute: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil

Kelly Magalhães
Role of inflammasome in CD1 antigen presentation
Institute: Universidade de Brasilia, Brazil

Leda Vieira
Leishmania infection in mice lacking the TNF receptor 1:  a model for mucocutaneous leishmaniasis? 
Institute: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil

Leticia Carneiro
Stress granules and bacterial infections
Institute: Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Luiz Vicente Rizzo
Molecular deffects in common variable immunodeficiency
Institute: Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, Brazil

Luiza Guilherme
Chemokines and the T cell infiltrate in Rheumatic Heart Disease
Institute: Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil

Maria Ilma Araujo
Down-modulation of the Th1 and Th2 inflammatory response in vitro by Schistosoma mansoni antigens
Institute: Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil

Maria Regina D’Império-Lima
The bad side of P2X7 receptor in tuberculosis
Institute: Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil

Moises Bauer
Low Tregs are associated with higher levels of Th1/Th17 cytokines and activated MAPK in type 1 bipolar disorder
Institute: PUC-RS, Brazil

Nicolaus Albert Borges Schriefer
Association between disseminated leishmaniasis and polymorphisms in Leishmaniabraziliensis strains".
Institute: Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil

Niels O. Camara
Immunoregulatory properties of mesenchymal stem cells.
Institute: Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil

Olindo Martins-Assis
Cytokine Signatures of Innate and Adaptive Immunity following Yellow Fever Vaccination
Institute:Fiocruz/MG, Brazil

Selma Jeronimo
Determinants of Hansen's disease and reactions
Institute: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil

Valeria Borges
Regulatory profile is associated to anti-inflammatory response in active diffuse cutaneous leishmaniasis
Institute: Fiocruz/BA, Brazil