ECMIS symposium: E. coli and the Mucosal Immune system

Preliminary program
Oral presentation of selected abstract will be added to the different sessions.
Selections will be announced in May.

Saturday 2 July : Het Pand - Ghent University
17:00 Registration
18:00 Opening
Key-note lectures
18:05 Microbiota, adaptive and innate mucosal immunity (Charles O Elson, University of Alabama, Birmingham, USA)
18:45 E. coli virulence factors (Jacques Mainil, Liège University, Belgium)
19:30 Reception

Sunday 3 July : Auditorium Oehoe - Ghent University
09:00 Session: The mucosal immune system: man, pigs, ruminants and mice
„The immune system differences between man, pigs, ruminants and mice” by Michael Bailey, UK
09:45 Session : Interaction of APEC with epithelial cells
„Interaction of APEC with epithelial cells” by Catherine Schouler, France
10:30 Coffee break
11:00 Session: Enterohemorrhagic E. coli and the mucosal immune system
„Immunity against Enteroheamorrhagic E. coli” by David Gally, University of Edinburgh, UK
Lunch and poster session
14:30 Session: Enteropathogenic E. coli and the mucosal immune system
„ Why and how Enteropathogenic E.coli (EPEC) inhibit innate immune response pathways of enterocytes” by Brendan Kenny, University of Newcastle, UK
16:00 Coffee break
16:30 Session: Immune responses against Uropathogenic  E. coli
„ Host pathogen interaction with reference to Uropathogenic E. coli” by Annelie Brauner, Karolinska University, Sweden.
19:00 Dinner in Historical Center of Ghent

Monday 4 July : Auditorium Oehoe - Ghent University
09:00 Session: E. coli toxins and immune modulation
„The immunomodulatory properties of E. coli enterotoxins” by George Hajishengallis, University of Louisville, USA
10:30 Coffee break
11:00 Session: Interaction of E. coli fimbriae with the mucosa
„Interaction of E. coli fimbriae with mucosae” by Henri De Greve, Free University of Brussels, VIB, Belgium
Lunch and poster session
13:30 Session : Interaction of E. coli with other microorganism
„Horizontal gene transfer between Salmonella and commensal E. coli in the gut” by Bärbel Stecher, Ludwich-Maximilians-Universität, München, Germany
14:45 Session: Interaction of the type III secretion system with the mucosal immune system
"Assembly of the Yersinia type III secretion injectisome" by Guy R. Cornelis, University of Basel, Switserland
16:00 Coffee break
16:30 Session: E. coli and the inflammasome
"The S. Typhimurium effector SopE induces caspase-1 activation in stromal cells to initiate gut inflammation”, by Andreas Müller, Institut Pasteur, France

Tuesday 5 July : Auditorium Oehoe - Ghent University
08:00 Session: Parenteral versus oral vaccination against ETEC
„Vaccination against ETEC in humans” by Ann-Mari Svennerholm, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
„Vaccination against ETEC in pigs” by Eric Cox, Ghent University, Belgium
9:30 Coffee break
10:00 Session: Parenteral versus oral vaccination against EHEC
„Insights from an EHEC model in sheep” by Eric Cox, Ghent University, Belgium
"Vaccination with mutant toxin against VTEC in pigs" by Bruno Goddeeris, KULeuven and Ghent University, Belgium
11:00 Session: Vaccination against other Pathogenic E. coli
„Development of a vaccine for ESBL carrying E. coli” by Roberto La Ragione, Veterinary Laboratories Agency and the University of Surrey, UK
„Mimopath™: a versatile vaccine technology for the development of oral vaccines” by Kees Leenhouts, Mucosis BV, The Netherlands
12:00 Closure and Farewell Lunch