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The 5th Immunoparasitology Meeting


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"The 5th Immunoparasitology Meeting" will be held on March 1-2.
This meeting will be conducted in English.
The Closed session is only open to Immunoparasitology group members.

The 5th Immunoparasitology Meeting
Date / Time: Thursday, March 1, 2012, 2:00pm - 5:30pm
Friday, March 2, 2012, 9:30am - 4:30pm

Venue: Taniguchi Memorial Hall, Integrated Life Science building, Suita Campus, Osaka Univ.
Pre-registration :

NOT required for Open Session I,II
Closed Session is only open to Immunoparasitology group members.

Contact: WPI Immunology Frontier Research Center
Osaka University 
Laboratory of Malaria Immunology / Cevayir Coban

3-1 Yamada-oka, Suita City, Osaka 565-0871, Japan

Tel: +81-6-6879-4805(from overseas) 06-6879-4805 (in Japan)
E-mail:

| Thursday, March 1, 2012 | Friday, March 2, 2012
Thursday, March 1, 2012
Date Time Speakers Title
March 1 14:00-14:10 Shizuo Akira
Director / IFReC
Opening Remarks
Open Session I
14:10-15:00 Thomas hanscheid
Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Faculdate de Medicina de Lisboa

Hemozoin: from melatonin pigment in a mad woman
to drug target, diagnostic tool, and immune-modulator

15:00-15:30 Nirianne Palacpac
RIMD, Osaka Univ.
Developmental pathway of the Plasmodium falciparum
bloodstage vaccine candidate serine repeat antigen 5 (SERA5)
15:30-15:40 Coffee Break
15:40-16:30 Maria Mota
Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Faculdate de Medicina de Lisboa
Plasmodium Infection, malaria superinfection and co-infections:
from simple models to complex interactions
16:30-17:00 Shinjiro Hamano
Institute of Trop. Med, Nagasaki Univ.
Entamoeba moshkovskii is associated with diarrhea in infants and causes diarrhea and colitis in mice
17:00-17:30 Yutaka Suzuki
Grad School of Front Science, Univ of Tokyo
Full-Parasites: Databases of Full-length cDNAs of Apicomplexa Parasites


| Thursday, March 1, 2012 | Friday, March 2, 2012
Friday, March 2, 2012
Date Time Speakers Title
March 2 Open Session II
9:30-10:00 Rikinari Hanayama
IFReC, Osaka Univ.
Two-step phagocytosis of apoptotic cells
10:00-10:30 Cevayir Coban
IFReC, Osaka Univ.
Novel mechanism of nanocrystal adjuvants; lessons from malaria parasites and their metabolites
10:40-11:10 Hiromitsu Hara
Faculty of Medicine, Saga Univ.
Activation of innate immunity through Syk-CARD9-Bcl10 signaling pathway is involved in control of Leishmania major infection
11:10-11:40 Kazuhiro Suzuki
IFReC, Osaka Univ.
Visualizing antigen encounter during early B cell responses
11:40-12:10 Koubun Yasuda
Hyogo College of Med.
Contribution of IL-33-activated type II innate lymphoid cells to pulmonary eosinophilia in intestinal nematode-infected mice
12:10-13:30 Lunch
Closed Session *This session is only open to Immunoparasitology group members.
13:30-13:50 Chikako Shimokawa
Institute of Tropical Med, Nagasaki Univ.
13:50-14:10 Shin-Ichi Inoue
Kyorin Univ.
14:10-14:30 Daisuke Kimura
Nagasaki University, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
14:30-14:40 Tea Break
14:40-15:00 Keishi Adachi
Institute of Tropical Med, Nagasaki Univ.
15:00-15:20 Jason Tang
IFReC, Osaka Univ.
15:20-15:40 Mio Kubota
Faculty of Med, Saga Univ.
15:40-16:00 Naganori Kamiyama
Graduate Sch. of Med, Osaka Univ.
16:00-16:20 Eiichi Iizasa
Faculty of Med, Saga Univ.
16:20-16:30 Closing Remarks