SYMPOSIUM ON
Immunomodulation
in Cancer & Regeneration
PREVIOUS EDITIONS
Programme 2015
Symposium on Immunomodulation in Cancer and Regeneration
2 JULY 2015
08.30 REGISTRATION
09.00-09.15 WELCOME
Catarina Almeida, Maria José Oliveira, Susana Santos
LECTURE I
09.15-10.00 Quorum sensing in the immune system
António Freitas, Institute Pasteur, Paris
10.00-10.30 ORAL PRESENTATIONS
Chairs: António Freitas and Luis Graça
PM Rodrigues, AR Ribeiro, C Meireles, H Xavier-Ferreira and NL Alves
p53 status dictates the homeostasis of medullary thymic epithelial cells and the long-lasting function of the thymus
A Cardoso, AG Castro, I Castro, J Pedrosa, A Cumano, P Vieira and M Saraiva
A Role for IL-10 in Myelopoiesis
CS Pereira, MC Sá-Miranda, MF Macedo.
Glycosphingolipids modulate iNKT cell activation.
10.30-11.30 COFFEE BREAK & POSTER SESSION
LECTURE II
Chair: Nuno Alves
11.30-12.15 Modulation of gamma-delta T cells for cancer immunotherapy
Bruno Silva-Santos, IMM, Lisboa
12.15-12.45 ORAL PRESENTATIONS
Chairs: Bruno Silva-Santos and Nuno Alves
S Mensurado, M Rei, T Lança, N Gonçalves-Sousa, B Silva-Santos and K Serre
In vivo inhibition of gd T cell response by polymorphonuclear myeloid-derived suppressor cells.
ML Pinto, E Rios, A Silva, AT Pinto, AP Cardoso, DS Nascimento, P Pinto do Ó, F Carneiro, MA Barbosa, MJ Oliveira
Macrophage polarization is distinctly modulated by normal and tumour decellularized matrices derived from human colorectal cancer patients
AT Pinto, ML Pinto, AP Cardoso, C Monteiro, MT Pinto, AF Maia, P Castro, R Figueira, A Monteiro, M Marques, M Mareel, SG Santos, R Seruca, MA Barbosa, S Rocha and MJ Oliveira
Improving Radiotherapy through Cancer Immunotherapy: could macrophages play a role?
12.45-14.30 LUNCH & POSTER SESSION
LECTURE III
Chair: Margarida Saraiva
14.30-15.15 Dendritic cell-based vacines: overview and perspectives
Paula Videira, CEDOC, Lisboa
15.15-16.00 ORAL PRESENTATIONS
Chairs: Paula Videira and Margarida Saraiva
HR Caires, RM Gonçalves, SG Santos, MA Barbosa, CR Almeida
MSC recruitment during human immune responses to polylactic acid and chitosan 3D scaffolds
GQ Teixeira, CL Pereira, HJ Wilke, A Ignatius, MA Barbosa, C Neidlinger-Wilke, RM Gonçalves
Intradiscal application of anti-inflammatory nanoparticles control inflammation while remodel extracellular matrix of degenerated intervertebral disc
JP Barbosa, AR Neves, AM Silva, MA Barbosa, MS Reis and SG Santos
The Response of Human Primary Dendritic Cells to Nanostructured Lipid Carriers and their Loading with Resveratrol
MI Oliveira, L. Dieguez, M. Brito and P Freitas
Novel microfluidic-based technologies for the analysis of Tumour Microenvironment interactions and dynamics
16.00-16.30 COFFEE BREAK & POSTER SESSION
16.30-18.00 ROUND TABLE:
Dendritic Cells in cancer and regenerative therapies
Moderators: Manuel Sobrinho-Simões and Mário Barbosa
Participants: Fernando Araújo, Luís Graça, Margarida Saraiva, Nuno Alves, Paula Videira
