This short meeting is primarily organized for PhD students, as an activity supported by the « Ecole doctorale d'Immunologie/EDIM ».

However, all researchers from all institutions in Belgium who are interested in the topics are warmly encouraged to attend and/or to submit a data slide.

Presentations and discussions will be in English.

Program

10h00 - 13h00        Discussions with the speakers
13h55                   Welcome
14h00 - 14h20        Introduction : V. Geenen (ULg)
14h20 - 14h50        N. Demotte (UCL) 
                           Restoring the association of the T-cell receptor with CD8 reverses
                           the anergy in human tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes
14h50 - 15h30        C. Caux (Lyon)
                           Interactions between Treg and plasmacytoid DC: A role in breast 
                           cancer immune tolerance
15h30 - 16h00        Break time
16h00 - 16h30        N. Jacobs (ULg)
                           Crosstalk between Natural Killer and Dendritic Cells in the 
                           presence of human papillomavirus (HPV) virus-like particles 
                           (VLP)
16h30 - 17h00        G. Oldenhove (ULB) 
                           Decrease of Foxp3+ Treg cell number and acquisition of effector 
                           cell phenotype during lethal infection
17h00 - 18h00        General discussion and short communications

Registration
Attendance is free.
Registration is requested:
Contact JP Coutelier,  e-mail : jean-paul.coutelier@uclouvain.be

Location
Auditorium Roi Baudouin C, UCL, Brussels campus
Avenue Mounier
1200 Brussels
Metro Alma, bus 42

General discussions and short presentations
For the discussions, participants are invited to submit by e-mail (jean-paul.coutelier@uclouvain.be), one slide (in PowerPoint) with data that may present new models, new advances, challenging views, unsolved questions.
These slides should deal with one of the topics (dendritic cells or antigen presentation).
The deadline for submission of slides is April 28.
2-4 presentations will be selected and authors will have 5 minutes to present their data.

Discussions with the speakers
PhD students from EDIM are invited to discuss their results with the speakers, based on appointments to be taken for the morning of May, 28.
Interested students should contact jean-paul.coutelier@uclouvain.be before April 28 and indicate with which speakers they would like to discuss.