2nd International Immunoinformatics Symposium
March 7-9, 2005, Boston, USA

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Monday, March 7, 2005

Venue 1- Boston University, College of Engineering, 44 Cummington Street, Room ERB 203. (MAP - #26)

Venue 2- Boston University Photonics Center , Colloquium Room, 9th Floor, 8 St. Mary's Street, Boston, MA 02215. (MAP - #19)

Time Details
8:30 AM - 6:00 PM Workshop - Immunoinformatics Tools Tutorial

Coordinated by - Vladimir Brusic [I2R], Franco Preparata [Brown University], Charles Delisi [Boston University], Anne De Groot [Brown University]

Venue - 1
6:00 PM Cocktail Reception for Speakers and Workshop Participants


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Tuesday, March 8, 2005

Venue 3- Boston University Photonics Center, Room 206 + Room 201, 8 St. Mary's Street, Boston, MA 02215. (MAP - #19)

Venue 4- The Castle , 225 Bay State Road, Boston, MA 02215. (MAP - #24)

Time Details
8:00 AM Registration

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8:30 AM Opening Address (Charles DeLisi, Annie De Groot, Vladimir Brusic)

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9:00 AM Keynote Speaker - Alan Perelson, Senior Fellow, Theoretical Biology and Biophysics Group, University of California, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Modeling T Cells 
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10:00 AM Symposium 1 - What's New? From Genomics to Vaccine Design

Chair - Vladimir Brusic, Ph.D., Institute for Infocomm Research

Speakers -
  • John Quackenbush, The Institute for Genomic Research, Challenges of the Post-Genome Era
  • George M. Church, Ph.D, Harvard Medical School, New Directions in High Throughput Technologies
  • Anne De Groot, M.D., EpiVax, From Immunome to Vaccine
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12:15 PM Lunch Break
1:30 PM Symposium 2 - Case Studies: Infectious Disease, SARS, Diabetes, and Allergy

Chair - Anne S. De Groot, M.D., Brown University

Speakers -
  • Nikolai Petrovsky, M.D., Flinders University, The IIMMS Talk: Immunoinformatics: Past, Present and Future
  • J. Thomas August, Ph.D., John Hopkins University, Correlation of MHC Binding Motifs to the Vivo Selection of T Cells Epitopes
  • Soren Buus, Ph.D., Northeastern University, SARS
  • Byron Goldstein, Ph.D., Los Alamos National Laboratory, Modeling Immune Receptor Signaling and the Problem of Combinatorial Complexity
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3:30 PM Symposium 3 - Immunoinformatics Resources

Chair - Nikolai Petrovsky, M.D., Flinders University, NIH/IEDAR Grant officer

Speakers -
  • Marie-Paule Lefranc, Ph.D., Université Montpellier II, IMGT, The International ImMunoGeneTics Information System: A Standardized Approach for Immunoinformatics
  • Steven Marsh, Ph.D., Anthony Nolan Trust, The IMGT/HLA and IPD Databases
  • Bette Korber, Ph.D., Los Alamos National Laboratory, Integrating global HIV sequence and immunological data for vaccine and reagent design
  • Darren Flower, Ph.D., Jenner Institute for Vaccine Research (MHC databases), AntiJen: An Archive of Quantitative Immunological Data

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5:30 PM Poster Session

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7:00 PM Dinner (ticketed event)

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Wednesday, March 9, 2005

Venue 3- Boston University Photonics Center, Room 206 + Room 201, 8 St. Mary's Street, Boston, MA 02215. (MAP - #19)

Time Details
8:30 AM Introduction

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9:00 AM Keynote Speaker - Alessandro Sette, Ph.D., La Jolla Allergy and Immunology Institute IEDAR, The Immune Epitope Database Project

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10:30 AM Symposium 4 - Allergens

Chair - Christian Schoenbach, RIKEN

Speakers -
  • Ovidiu Ivanciuc, Ph.D., University of Texas Medical Branch, SDAP Allergen Database
  • Andras Falus, Ph.D., Hungarian Academy of Sciences and Department of Genetics, Semmelweis University, Allergy Genomics: Lessons from Histamine-Defecient Mice
  • Vladimir Brusic, Ph.D., Institute for Infocomm Research, Prediction of Allergenicity and Allergic Cross-Reactivity
  • Steven Gendel, United States Food and Drug Administration, An Overview of Food Allergen Databases
Venue - 3
12:30 PM Lunch Break
1:30 PM Artificial and Virtual Immune Systems and Modeling

Speakers -
  • John Samuelson, M.D., Ph.D., Boston University, Use of Bioinformatics to Study N-linked Glycosylation in Medically Important Protists and Fungi
  • Thomas Kepler, Ph.D, Duke University Medical Center, Artificial and Virtual Immune Systems and Modeling
  • Nikolai Petrovsky, Ph.D., Flinders University, Virtual Immune System for Clinical Applications
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3:00 PM The Next Horizon: New Directions in Immunoinformatics

Speakers -

  • Shoba Ranaganathan, Ph.D., Macquarie University, Structural Immunoinformatics Comes of Age
  • David Kelvin, Ph.D., University of Toronto
  • Ivan Lefkovits, Ph.D., University of Basel, Modeling of Heterogeneity of Cells Involved in the Immune System
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5:00 PM Closing Summary (Charles DeLisi and Annie De Groot)

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