Registration

Evening session: The SLB Session: BRIEF OVERVIEW OF SLB

Chairs: William M. Nauseef, Pierre Borgeat

Introductory Remarks

Opening lecture (to be announced)

Welcoming reception and light Dinner

AM : Oral session I      NEUTROPHIL FUNCTIONS AND BEYOND
Chairs: Sergio Grinstein, Denis Girard, Sylvain Bourgoin

Niels Borregaard, Copenhagen, Denmark: Neutrophil granule subsets. Their content and significance.

Leo Koenderman, Utrecht, The Netherlands: Differential functions of neutrophil phenotypes

Ellen A. Robey, Berkeley, CA, USA: Visualizing neutrophil migration during parasitic infection

Sergio Catz, La Jolla, CA: Molecular mechanisms regulating vesicle dynamics and secretion in granulocytes

Arturo Zychlinsky, Berlin, Germany: Neutrophil extracellular traps

Michael Glogauer, Toronto, ON Canada: The role of reactive oxygen species in regulating neutrophil chemotaxis

PM : Oral session II      RECEPTORS, SIGNALLING AND SOLUBLE MEDIATORS
Chairs: Marco A. Cassatella, William S. Powell, Patrick McDonald

Hans-Uwe Simon, Bern, Switzerland: Autophagy-apoptosis cross-talk in neutrophils

Véronique Witko-Sarsat, Paris, France: Role of the proliferating cell nuclear antigen scaffolding in the control of neutrophil survival

Patrick P. McDonald, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada: Signaling pathways controlling cytokine production by human neutrophils

Paul H. Naccache, Québec, QC, Canada: The neutrophil: emerging physio-pathological concerns

Ralph Kettritz, Berlin, Germany: Neutrophil activation by Anti-Neutrophil Cytoplasmic Autoantibodies (ANCA)

Pierre Bruhns, Paris, France: Neutrophils and IgG: novel actors in allergic shock

AM : Oral session III      CELL-CELL INTERACTIONS
Chairs: Jean-Michel Dayer, Maria Fernandes, Patrice E. Poubelle

Marco A. Cassatella, Verona, Italy: Neutrophils at the interface between innate and adaptive immunity

Paul Kubes, Calgary, AB, Canada: How neutrophils migrate to sites of infection and sterile injury

Yoseph A. Mekori, Tel Aviv, Israel: T cell-mast cell interaction within the inflammatory context

Lennart Lindbom, Stockholm, Sweden: Neutrophil granule proteins and endothelial function in acute inflammation

Fabienne Tacchini-Cottier, Epalinges, Switzerland: Crosstalks between neutrophils and dendritic cells during infection with the protozoan parasite Leishmania major

Trainee’s Oral Session
Five oral presentations selected from posters (12 min. each)

PM: Session IV: Poster Session
Chair: François Marceau

Late PM: Mini-Workshop: UPDATE ON METHODOLOGIC APPROACHES TO UNDERSTANDNG NEUTROPHIL BIOLOGY
Chairs: Kenneth McLeish, Maria Fernandes

Stephen A Renshaw, Sheffield, UK: Zebrafish as a model for studying neutrophil biology.

Sergio Grinstein, Toronto, ON, Canada: Tracking single receptors on the surface of phagocytes

Kenneth McLeish, Louisville, KY, USA: Applying proteomics to neutrophils, more than a catalog of proteins

Poster Awards; Cocktail

AM :The Amgen Oral Session V:    NEUTROPHILS IN THE CLINIC
Chairs: Sara M. Rankin, Patrice E. Poubelle, Claude Perreault

Peter A. Nigrovic, Boston, MA, USA: Modulating neutrophil migration to the joint

Sara Rankin, London, UK: Molecular mechanisms regulating neutrophil clearance in the bone marrow

A. McGarry Houghton, Pittsburgh, PA, USA: Intracellular functions of neutrophil elastase in cancer

Mary C. Dinauer, St. Louis, MO, USA: Function and regulation of neutrophil oxidant production: Insights from chronic granulomatous disease

Nancy Berliner, Boston, MA, USA: Approach to the patient with neutropenia

Michel Gilliet, Lausanne, Switzerland: to be announced

CONCLUDING REMARKS