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Sunday 5th September 2010

11.00 Registration
14.00 Opening by Elsevier
14.15 Introduction by Conference Chairs:
Graham Warren and Tom Misteli, Editors in Chief Current Opinion in Cell Biology
14.30 Sialic Acids in Host-Pathogen Interactions:  A 500-Million-Year-Old Arms Race
Ajit Varki, University of California at San Diego, USA)
15.10 Salmonella
Jorge Galan, Yale University, USA
15.50 Refreshments
16.15 HIV Infection
Mark Marsh, LMCB, University College London, UK
16.45 Viral entry
Ari Helenius, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland
17.15 Nuclear Transport Machinery: from Viral Pathogenesis to Antiviral Response
Beatriz Fontoura, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, USA
17.35 Mechanism of Cytoplasmic Dynein Recruitment by Adenovirus
Julian Scherer, Columbia University, New York, USA
17.55 Vaccinia Virus Extracellular Virions Exploit Macropinocytosis for Host Cell Entry
Florian Schmidt, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland
18.15 Welcome Reception and Poster Session 1
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Monday 6th September 2010

9.00 Toxoplasma and malaria
David Roos, University of Pennsylvania, USA
9.30 Export of virulence and effector proteins to the malaria-infected erythrocyte
Alan Cowman, University of Melbourne, Australia
10.00 Rhodococcus equi phagosomes: arrest for a rest
Albert Haas, University of Bonn, Germany
10.20 Refreshments
10.45 Receptor activation and signal transduction in phagocytosis
Sergio Grinstein, University of Toronto, Canada
11.15 Mycobacterial granuloma formation and innate host defense in zebrafish embryos
Anne Marie Meijer, Leiden University, the Netherlands
11.35 Albugo Genomics to Investigate Pathogen Virulence Mechanisms and Host Specificity
Eric Kemen, The Sainsbury Laboratory, United Kingdom
12.00 Lunch and Meet the Professor Sessions
Jorge Galan, Norma Andrews, Mark Mash, Markus Engstler, Michael Way
13.30 Mycobacterium tuberculosis: Here today and here tomorrow
David Russel, Cornell University, USA
14.00 Legionella infection
Craig Roy, Yale University, USA
14.30 A Drosophila model for the study of Shigella virulence factors.
Magdalena Kawalec, University of Strasbourg, France
14.50 Toxosomes: How Cells Dispose of an Undigestable Membrane Pore Complex
Matthias Husmann, Johannes Gutenberg-University, Germany
15.10 Defense and Counter-Defense in the Drosophila RNAi-based Immune System
Ronald van Rij, Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands
15.30 Refreshments
16.00 Wollbachia
William Sullivan, University of California at Santa Cruz, USA
16.30 T cruzei invasion
Norma Andrews, University of Maryland, USA
17.00 Chlamydia trachomatis overrides the Spindle Assembly Checkpoint causing host cells to fail in cytokinesis 
Heather Brown, University of Florida, ÙSA
17.30 Poster Session 2
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19.00 Conference dinner (optional)
 

Tuesday 7th September 2010

9.00 Integrating the cell biology and transmission biology of African trypanosomes
Keith Matthews, University of Edinburgh, UK
9.30 T brucei survival
Markus Engstler, University of Wuerzburg, Germany
10.00 Nuclear Chromatin Interactions Underlie Epigenetic Regulation of Antigenic Variation
Miguel Navarro, Spanish National Research Council, Granada, Spain
10.20 Refreshments
10.50 Bordetella adenylate cyclase toxin hijacks its β2 integrin receptor into lipid rafts to accomplish translocation across target cell membrane
Ladislav Bumba, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
11.10 The intracellular parasite Theileria annulata modulates host cell actin dynamics to control cell-matrix interaction and motility
Martin Baumgartner, University of Bern, Switzerland
11.30 Munc13-4 serves a conserved function in maturation of secretory lysosomes in immune cells, while tethering at the plasma membrane requires munc13-4 - rab27a complex
Peter van der Sluijs, UMC Utrecht, the Netherlands
12.00 Lunch
13.30 Herpes and poxviruses
Paul Lehner, University of Cambridge, UK
14.00 Vaccinia virus infection/actin
Michael Way, Cancer Research UK, UK
14.30 Sofa Session with Ajit Varki and David Roos
15.00 Closing Remarks