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2012.03.05

The 5th Immunoparasitology Meeting

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"The 5th Immunoparasitology Meeting" was held on March 1-2.

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