PROGRAMME

LANGUAGE
English is the official language of the Symposium

 

PROGRAME

08.30   REGISTRATION
     
09.00-09.15   WELCOME
Catarina Almeida, Maria José Oliveira, Susana Santos
     
09.15-10.00
 
  LECTURE I
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
     
11.30-12.15



  LECTURE II
Chair: Nuno Alves

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
     
14.30-15.15   LECTURE III:
Chair: Margarida Saraiva

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
     

 

 


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