Session I: Cell signaling and gene expression

Chair: Riitta Lahesmaa and Sanna Edelman

9.30 Registration and coffee

10.00 Opening/ Riitta Lahesmaa, Turku Centre for Biotechnology

10.05 Anjana Rao, Gene regulation in cells of the immune system

10.50 Patrick Hogan, Molecular basis of calcium signalling in cells of the immune system

11.35 Coffee

12.00 Kian Peng Koh, - Tet proteins – new regulators of ES cell differentiation

12.20 Olli Lassila, Transcriptional control of plasma cell differentiation

12.45 Soile Tuomela, IL-4-and STAT6-mediated transcriptional regulation to initiate Th2

program in human T cells

13.05 Harri Lähdesmäki, Computational systems biology to build gene regulatory networks of T cell

differentiation

13.30 Lunch

Session II: Modulation of immune response I

Chair: Olli Lassila

14.30 Micah Benson, Molecular mechanisms of plasma cell differentiation

14.50 Sonia Sharma, Genome wide siRNA screen reveals new players in Ca-signalling

15.10 Matthew Pipkin, Transcriptional control of cytotoxic T lymphocyte differentiation and function

15.30 Nancy Huang, Leukemia associated mutations in Tet-2

15.50 Discussion

Session III: Modulation of immune response II

Chair: Anjana Rao

9.30 Coffee

10.00 Brigitta Stockinger, Plasticity of T cell responses

10.45 Christoph Wilhelm: Role of IL-9 in the immune system

11.05 Keiji Hirota: Role of the AhR in immune responses

11.25 Coffee

11.50 Joao Duarte: Role of the AhR in skin inflammation

12.10 Ceri Wiggins: Crosstalk of AhR and NFkB

12.20 Helena Ahlfors: Role of AhR in antigen presenting cells

12.40 Lunch

Session IV: T1D

Chair: Brigitta Stockinger

13.40 Mikael Knip, New insights into TID

14.05 Arno Hänninen, Host-microbe interactions in autoimmune type 1 diabetes

14.30 Henna Järvenpää, -T1D transcriptomics

14.50 Matej Oresic, Metabolic regulation in progression to T1D

15.15 Discussion