The 7th Joint Meeting of the International Society for Interferon and Cytokine Research and the International Cytokine Society "Cytokines 2008" will be held October 12 to 16, 2008 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. This Conference aims to provide a comprehensive update of recent insights into basic and clinical aspects of Cytokines in Cancer, Inflammation and Infectious Diseases. The overall theme of this Conference is Translating Science into Health, and is chosen to emphasize the integration of basic, pre-clinical, pharmaceutical and clinical research in the areas of cancer, immune modulation, inflammation and infectious diseases. On this occasion, Céline Molle will give a presentation entitled "Differential involvement of IRF members in IL-27 synthesis induced by TLR ligation"