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NEW! The 11th Annual Autoimmunity Day will be held on June 5, 2009 from 8:30am - 4:30pm at the Bloomberg School of Public Health in Sheldon Hall, W1214.
- Guest Keynote Speakers:
- - Dr. George Tsokos of Harvard University
- Dr. Lawrence Steinman of Stanford University
- Local Speakers:
- Dr. Barbara Wasowska
Dr. Daniel Drachman
Dr. Anthony Rosen
Dr. Kamal Moudgil
Dr. Jonathan Powell
| 8:30am - 9:00am |
Continental Breakfast |
| 9:00am - 10:00am |
Dr. Lawrence Steinman
Neurology and Neurological Sciences, Stanford University
The Emergence of Antigen Specific Therapy for Organ Specific Autoimmune Disease |
| 10:00am - 10:30am |
Dr. Jonathan Powell
Oncology, SOM
mTOR: Master Regulator of Effector and Regulatory T Cell Lineage Commitment |
| 10:30am - 11:00am |
Break - Light Refreshments |
| 11:00am - 11:30am |
Dr. Daniel Drachman
Neurology & Neuroscience, SOM
Myasthenia Gravis: What We Know, and What We Wish We Knew |
| 11:30am - 12:00pm |
Dr. Kamal Moudgil
Microbiology & Immunology, University of MD, SOM
The Target Organ Susceptibility in Autoimmune Arthritis |
| 12:00pm - 1:30pm |
LUNCH |
| 1:30pm - 2:30pm |
Dr. George Tsokos
Rheumatology, Harvard University
Immune Cell Signaling and Gene Transcription in Lupus: Novel Therapeutic Targets and Biomarkers |
| 2:30pm - 3:00pm |
Dr. Barbara Wasowska
Pathology, SOM
The Immunoregulatory Effects of IVIg in Autoimmune Diseases and Organ Transplantation in Experimental and Clinical Models |
| 3:00pm - 3:30pm |
Dr. Antony Rosen
Rheumatology, SOM
Autoantigens in Systemic Autoimmunity: Forgotten Partner? |
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Sponsored by Johns Hopkins Center for Autoimmune Disease Research, WHO/PAHO Collaborating Center for Autoimmune Disorders, and American Autoimmune Related Diseases Association. For more information please contact Kathy Spinnato at 410-955-0330 or by e-mail kspinnat@jhsph.edu.
Watch Keynote Presentations form the 10th Annual Autoimmunity Day
The 10th Annual Autoimmunity Day will be held on June 13, 2008 from 8:30am - 4:30pm at the Sheldon Hall, W1214.
- Guest Keynote Speakers:
- - Dr. Stephen D. Miller of Northwestern University.
- Dr. Stephen Katz of the National Institutes of Health.
- Dr. Joseph Craft of Yale University.
- Local Speakers:
- Dr. Charles Drake - SOM
Dr. DeLisa Fairweather - BSPH
Dr. Andrew Zimmerman - Kennedy Krieger
Dr. Shukti Chakravarti - SOM
| 8:30am - 9:00am |
Breakfast |
| 9:00am - 10:00am |
Dr. Stephen D. Miller
Immunobiology, Feinberg School of Medicine
An Antigen-Specific Tolerance Strategy for Therapy of Murine Models of MS and Type 1 Diabetes-Mechanisms and Clinical Prospects |
| 10:00am - 10:30am |
Dr. Charles Drake
Oncology, SOM
The Role of LAG-3 and PD-1 in CD8 T Cell Tolerance to Self and Tumor Antigens |
| 10:30am - 11:00am |
Break - Light Refreshments |
| 11:00am - 11:30am |
Dr. Shukti Chakravarti
Gastroenterology, SOM
Regulation of Immune Functions by the Extracellular Matrix |
| 11:30am - 12:00pm |
Dr. Andrew W. Zimmerman
Neurology, Kennedy Kreiger Institute
Autoimmunity in Autism |
| 12:00pm - 1:30pm |
LUNCH |
| 1:30pm - 2:30pm |
Dr. Joseph Craft
Rheumatology, Yale University School of Medicine
Effector T cell subsets and function in autoimmunity |
| 2:30pm - 3:00pm |
Dr. DeLisa Fairweather
BSPH
Sex Differences in Autoimmune Disease |
| 3:00pm - 4:00pm |
Dr. Stephen Katz
Director, NIAMS, NIH
CD8 T Cell Mediated Models of Autoimmunity |
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Sponsored by Johns Hopkins Center for Autoimmune Disease Research. For more information please contact Robin McCargo at 410-955-0330.
The 9th Annual Autoimmunity Day will be held on June 1, 2007 from 8:30am - 4:30pm at the Becton Dickinson Lecture Hall, Room W1020 of Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
- Guest Keynote Speakers:
- - Dr. John Harley of The Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation is a specialist in the genetics of lupus.
- Dr. Matthais von Herrath of the LaJolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology is studying animal models of type 1 diabetes mellitus.
- Local Speakers:
- Barbara Detrick
Lieping Chen
C. Lynne Burek
Mark Soloski
Wendy Davidson
Stuart Levine
Sponsored by Johns Hopkins Center for Autoimmune Disease Research. For more information please contact Tracey Johnson at tljohnso@jhsph.edu.
The 8th Annual Autoimmunity Day will be held on June 9, 2006 from 8:30am - 4:30pm at the Becton Dickinson Lecture Hall, Room W1020 of Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Morning Session: Lynne Burek, Chair
| 8:00 am |
Continental Breakfast in the Bloomberg Courtyard |
| 8:30 am |
GRAIL, an ubiquitin E3 ligase involved in T cell anergy
(C. Garrison Fathman) |
| 9:30 am |
Rheumatoid Arthritis and Atherosclerosis: Convergence of Pathogenic Mechanisms and Implications for Treatment(Joan Bathon) |
| 10:00 am |
Break |
| 10:30 am |
GBS: Towards fulfilling Witebsky's postulates
(Kazim Sheikh) |
| 11:00 am |
"Reconstitution of Immune Tolerance to self MHC Class II Antigens after Bone Marrow Transplantation"
(Allan Hess) |
| 11:30 am |
Selective costimulation blockade to modulate transplant-associated autoimmunity (Agnes Azimzadeh) |
| 12:00 pm |
Lunch in the Bloomberg Courtyard |
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Afternoon Session: Patrizio Caturegli, Chair
| 1:30 |
Induction and Pathogenicity of anti-DNA Antibodies (Betty Diamond) |
| 2:30 |
To be announced (Avi Kupfer) |
| 3:00 |
Identification of a New Mechanism for Tumor Immune Evasion (TC Wu) |
| 3:30 |
Epidemiologic Study of Schizophrenia and Autoimmune Diseases in Danish Registers (William Eaton) |
| 4:30 |
Meeting Adjourned |
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Sponsored by Johns Hopkins Center for Autoimmune Disease Research
For more information, contact Tracey Johnson at (410) 955-0330 tljohnso@jhsph.edu.
The Seventh Annual
Autoimmunity Day will be held on June 10, 2005 from 8:30am - 3:30pm at the Becton Dickinson Lecture Hall, Room W1020 of Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Morning Session:
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Patrizio Caturegli, Chair
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| 8:30 |
Continental Breakfast in the Bloomberg Courtyard |
| 9:00 |
The Autoreactive CD4+ T cell: Chance or Necessity(Gerald T. Nepom) |
| 10:00 |
Interplay between T cells, Proteases and Neurons: the Neuron is the Loser (Avindra Nath) |
| 10:30 |
Break |
| 10:45 |
A Novel Model of Drug Hapten: Immune- Mediated Hepatitis with Autoimmune Features (Delores B. Njoku) |
| 11:15 |
Zonulin and Intestinal Permeability: From Innate Immunity to Autoimmunity (Alessio Fasano) |
| 11:45 |
Turning Off Immune Checkpoints to Induce Cancer Immunity: The Other Side of the Coin (Elizabeth Jaffee) |
| 12:15 |
Lunch in the Bloomberg Courtyard |
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Afternoon Session:
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C. Lynne Burek, Chair
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| 1:30 |
Autoimmunity in the Central Nervous System: a Question of Milieux (Hartmut Wekerle) |
| 2:30 |
Autoimmunity and Pediatric Movement Disorders (Harvey Singer) |
| 3:00 |
Immunopathogenesis of Transverse Myelitis (Doug Kerr) |
| 3:30 |
Meeting Adjourned |
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The Sixth Annual
Autoimmunity Day was held on June 4 2004, and included the following program:
All lectures were held at the Bloomberg School of Public Health in the Becton Dickinson Lecture Hall, Room W1020
Morning Session: Patrizio Caturegli, Chair
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| 8:00 |
Continental Breakfast in the Bloomberg Courtyard |
| 9:00 |
Ethan Shevach, National Institutes of Health
CD4+CD25+ T Cells: Regulating the regulator |
| 10:00 |
Jonathan Powell (Oncology)
Integrating activating and tolerogenic signals in T cells |
| 10:30 |
Carmelo Cuffari(Pediatrics)
The immune inflammatory response in IBD |
| 11:00 |
BREAK |
| 11:15 |
Livia Cacsiola-Rosen(Dermatology)
Antigens in autoimmunity: Insights from myositis |
| 11:45 |
Howard Lederman(Pediatrics)
X linked autoimmunity allergic deregulation syndrome |
| 12:15 |
Lunch will be provided in the Bloomberg Courtyard |
Afternoon Session: Lynne Burek, Chair
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| 1:30 |
Hugh McDevitt, Stanford University
The Roles of MHC and TNF in autoimmunity |
| 2:30 |
Donna Farber(University of Maryland)
Long term islet graft survival in NOD mice by abrogation of recurrent autoimmunity |
| 3:00 |
Peter Calabresi (Neurology)
The role of potassium channel Kv1.3 in Autoimmune Diseases |
| 3:30 |
Meeting Adjourned
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Sponsored by Johns Hopkins Center for Autoimmune Disease Research and PAHO/World Health Organization Collaborating Center for Autoimmune Diseases Center. |
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Advisory Board |
Scientific Board
Dr. Antony Rosen
Dr. Jonathan Schneck
Dr. Abraham Kupfer
Dr. Drew Pardoll
Dr. Neal Halsey
Dr. Stephen Desiderio
Dr. Jay Brooks Jackson
Dr. Daniel Drachman
Dr. Mark Soloski
Dr. Diane Griffin
Dr. Grant Anhalt
We are grateful for support from the American Autoimmune-Related Disease Association and Ms. Linda Otto. |
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The Fifth Autoimmunity
Day was held on June 6 2003, and included the following program:
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Morning
Session: Stanely M. Finger, Chair
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| 8:00 |
Continental Breakfast
in the Bloomberg Courtyard |
| 9:00 |
George Eisenbarth
Insulin as a primary autoantigen for Type 1 Diabetes |
| 10:00 |
Patrizio Caturegli
Autoimmune Hypophysitis: An emerging reality |
| 10:30 |
Milagros Picota Samaniego
Antibody responses to Polymorphic HSPs: Do they play a role in transplant rejection? |
| 11:00 |
BREAK |
| 11:15 |
Ellen Silbergeld
Mercury and Autoimmunity: New findings from the lower end of the dose- response curve |
| 11:45 |
Kanneboyins Nagaraju
Sex differences in immune response genes |
| 12:00 |
Lunch on your own |
Afternoon
Session: Kamal Moudgil, Chair
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| 1:30 |
Martin Weigert The role of receptor editing in autoimmunity and free light chain production |
| 2:30 |
Stephen Desiderio
Regulatory mechanisms in the diversification of antibody genes |
| 3:00 |
David W. Scott
B-Cell delivered gene therapy for autoimmune diseases |
| 3:30 |
Abdel Hamad
How defects in the Fas pathway prevent T-cell mediated autoimmune disease |
| 4:30 |
Reception in the Bloomberg Courtyard
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Sponsored by the Johns Hopkins Autoimmune Disease
Research Center and the Pan American Health Organization
(PAHO)/ World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Center. |
The Fourth Autoimmunity
Day was held on June 14, 2002, and included the following program:
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the presenter's name to read summaries of the
talks. |
| Diane Mathis |
A
Serendipitous Model of Rheumatoid Arthritis |
| Steven Brant |
The Genetics of Crohn’s Disease |
| Curt Civin |
Gene
Transduction of Hematopoietic Stem Cells to Re-engineer the Transplanted
Immune System |
| John
Stone |
The
Wagener’s Granulomatosis Etanercept Trial |
| Brian
Kotzin |
Searching
for the Genetic Basis of Systemic Lupus |
| Charles
Via |
Immunopathogenesis
of Lupus: Lessons from the Murine Model of Graft vs. Host Disease |
| David
Irani |
Control of Local Immune Responses in the Central Nervous System |
| John Griffin |
Molecular
Mimicry in Autoimmune Disease |
The Third Autoimmunity
Day was held on June 7 2001, and included the following program:
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Morning
Session: Jonathan
Schneck, Chair
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| Irun
Cohen |
Active
Immunotherapy of Autoimmune Diabetes Mellitus by Specific Peptide
Vaccination |
| Scheherazade
Sadegh-Nasseri |
Induction
of Anergy in Memory T cells |
| Robert
Brodsky |
Immunoablation
with High-Dose Cyclophosphamide for Autoimmunity |
| Jerry
Winkelstein |
Rheumatic
Disorders in Primary Immunodeficiency Disorders |
| David
Moller |
Identification
of Candidate Etiologic Antigens in Systemic Sarcoidosis |
Afternoon
Session: Antony
Rosen , Chair
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| Bevra
Hahn |
Manipulating
Autoimmunity in SLE: What are the Elements of Immune Tolerance |
| David
Hellman |
The
Johns Hopkins Vasculitis Center |
| Kamal
Moudgil |
Diversification
of Response to hsp65 in Autoimmune Arthritis is Regulatory in Nature |
| Thomas
Kickler |
Autoimmunity,
Platelets, and Bleeding |
The Second
Autoimmunity Day was held on June 9 2000 and included the following
program:
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Morning
Session: Fred
Sanfilippo,Chair
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Jean-Francois
Bach |
Control
of Autoimmune Diseases by Regulatory T Cells. The Influence of Genetic
and Environmental Factors |
| Douglas
Jabs |
Immunopathogenesis
of Murine Models of Sjogren's Syndrome |
| Michelle
Petri |
Clinical
Research in SLE |
| Christopher
Karp |
Convergence
and Cross-Regulation Among Mediators of Cellular Immunity |
Afternoon
Session
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| Peter
Lipsky |
Molecular
Abnormalities in Autoimmune Disease |
| Grant
Anhalt |
Paraneoplastic
Pemphigus: Autoimmunity and Cancer |
| Daniel Drachman |
"The
Guided Missile" Approach to Specific Therapy of Myasthenia |
| Diane
E. Griffin |
Autoimmune
Demyelinating Disease after Rabies Vaccine: Insights into Multiple
Sclerosis |
| Drew
Pardoll |
Antitumor
Immunity as a Problem of Self-Nonself Discrimination |
The First
Autoimmunity Day was held on June 22 1999 and included the
following speakers: Drs. John
Stone, Mark
Soloski, Antony
Rosen, Henry
Lau, Jonathan
Schneck, Allan
Hess, and Drew
Pardoll. |
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