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

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Monday, March 7, 2005

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

Time Details
8:30 AM - 8:45 AM
Welcome and General Introduction - Genes and Proteins Overview

Instructor - Charles Delisi, Boston University

8:45 AM - 9:30 AM
Basic Bioinformatics - Alignment Tools Available on NCBI

Instructor - Franco Preparata, Brown University

9:30 AM - 10:15 AM
Immunology - Basic Immune System Components: T Cells, B Cells and Antibodies, NK cells, Cytokines, and What Can Be and Can't Be Modelled.

Instructor - Anne De Groot, Brown University

10:15 AM - 10:30 AM
Break

10:30 AM - 11:10 AM
Immunological Databases

Instructor - Darren Flower, Jenner Institute for Vaccine Research

11:10 AM - 11:50 AM
Predictive Systems in Immunology - Proteasome, TAP, MHC binding Class I & Class II, and Balb C.

Instructor - Vladimir Brusic, Institute for Infocomm Research

11:50 AM - 12:30 PM
Allergen Resources and Assessment of Allergenicity

Instructors- Steven Gendel, US FDA and Vladimir Brusic, Institute for Infocomm Research

1:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Example/Tutorial - Two Case Studies

Speaker - Bill Martin and Anne De Groot (Brown University)

Case Study 1 -
  • Epitope discovery in Infectious Disease and HIV

  • Conservatrix

  • EpiMatrix Class Class II

  • Epitope assembly Clustimer

  • Immunogenic consensus sequences

  • Epiassembler

  • Blastimer

  • VaccineCAD

Case Study 2 -
  • De-immunization

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