Lorne Infection and Immunity Conference 2016
| Date | 17 February - 19 February 2016 |
| Venue | Mantra Lorne |
| Location | Mountjoy Parade, Lorne VIC 3232 View Map |
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The Lorne Infection and Immunity Conference brings together scientists, students, health care and industry from multiple disciplines with a shared interest in infection and immunity research.
CONFIRMED SPEAKERS:
Gordon Dougan, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, UK
Genetic analysis of host-pathogen interactions during infection; enteric bacteria; global health
Elodie Ghedin, New York University, USA
Evolutionary genomics of infectious agents; neglected tropical diseases; microbiome and virus metagenomic studies
Manuela Raffatellu, Univeristy of California - Irvine, USA
Salmonella, inflammation, probiotics and metal ion sequestration in host defence
Felix Randow, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, UK
Cell autonomous innate immunity, autophagy, signal transduction
Plenary: Charles Rice, The Rockefeller University, USA
Hepatitis C virology, host-virus interactions
Robert Sauerwein, Radboud University Medical Center, Netherlands
Development and clinical testing of Plasmodium falciparum malaria vaccines
Ken Smith, University of Cambridge, UK
Regulation of immune reactivity, and the role that defects in this play in predisposition to autoimmunity, infection and transplant rejection
Stefanie Vogel, University of Maryland, USA
Innate immunity to bacteria, TLRs, macrophage development
Dario Zamboni, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Pattern recognition receptors; modulation of host cell function by intracellular pathogens
James Beeson, Burnet Institute, Australia
Immunity to malaria; malaria vaccines, treatments and control; malaria and maternal and child health
Antje Blumenthal, University of Queensland, Australia
Host-pathogen interactions, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, macrophage function, anti-microbials
Sheila Donnelly, University of Technology - Sydney, Australia
Helminth-host interactions; pathogen immunomodulators as therapeutics
Terry Kwok-Schuelein, Monash University, Australia
Helicobacter-associated malignancies and novel drug targets for their prevention
Patrick Reading, University of Melbourne and WHO Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Influenza, Australia
Innate response to influenza virus
Dick Strugnell, University of Melbourne
Bacteria-host interactions; vaccine development; antimicrobial resistance
Menno van Zelm, Monash University, Australia
B-cell differentiation and B-cell memory; antibody deficiencies; persistent viral infections; chronic inflammatory disease
Carola Vinuesa, Australian National University, Australia
Humoral immunology; follicular helper T-cells and germinal centre biology
Paul Young, University of Queensland, Australia
Molecular virology, structural biology, antivirals, sub-unit and DNA based vaccines, viral diagnostics
