Wessex Immunology Group Spring Meeting 2014 Event

We are also, for the first time, inviting neuroimmunologists to submit an abstract using the template and following the guidelines attached. Selected abstracts will be shortlisted for oral or poster presentations by the Wessex Immunology Group Committee. Individuals will be notified of the nature of their presentation when the selection process has been completed.

This is a free meeting, but pre-registration will be required via https://bsi.immunology.org/page.aspx?pid=1417

Registration Deadline - 21 March 2014

Programme
9.00- Registration and coffee
Morning Theme - Pathology
9.25- Welcome Address
9.30- Hugh Willison (University of Glasgow)
‘The role of anti-glycolipid antibodies in Guillain-Barré syndrome’
10.15- Boris Sakic (McMaster University, Canada)
‘Role of brain-reactive autoantibodies in etiology of mental disorders’
11.00- Coffee and Posters
11.30- Selected talk 1: pathology
11.50- Selected talk 2: pathology
12.15- Francesca Aloisi (ISS Rome, Italy)
‘B cell follicles in multiple sclerosis’
13.00- Lunch and Posters
Afternoon Theme - Intervention
14.00- Carl Goodyear (University of Glasgow)
‘Immune complexes in spinal injury’
14.45- Selected talk 3: intervention
15.05- Selected talk 4: intervention
15.30- Tea and Posters
16.00- Mike O'Neill (Eli Lilly)
‘Abeta and tau vaccination for Alzheimer’s disease’
16.45- Closing remarks
17.00- Drinks reception and poster prize


We hope that you will agree that we have managed to put together an exciting programme of immunology for our fourth themed meeting. These now annual meetings aim to continue to foster links between our wide immunology research base across the region and to build external links with other immunologists outside of our area.

Wessex Immunology Group Committee

Stephen Beers, Jens Madsen, Ali Roghanian, Jessica Teeling, Emma Reeves, Wen Chean Lim, Sally Sharpe, Marta Polak, Mike Ardern-Jones