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Autoimmune Disease Research Center


  
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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
10:00am - 10:30am Dr. Charles Drake
Oncology, SOM
10:30am - 11:00am Break - Light Refreshments
11:00am - 11:30am Dr. Shukti Chakravarti
Gastroenterology, SOM
11:30am - 12:00pm Dr. Andrew W. Zimmerman
Neurology, Kennedy Kreiger Institute
12:00pm - 1:30pm LUNCH
1:30pm - 2:30pm Dr. Joseph Craft
Rheumatology, Yale University School of Medicine
2:30pm - 3:00pm Dr. DeLisa Fairweather
BSPH
3:00pm - 4:00pm Dr. Stephen Katz
Director, NIAMS, NIH

Sponsored by Johns Hopkins Center for Autoimmune Disease Research. For more information please contact Robin McCargo-Epes 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


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

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:

Patrizio Caturegli, Chair

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


Afternoon Session:

C. Lynne Burek, Chair

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


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

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

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

Sponsored by Johns Hopkins Center for Autoimmune Disease Research and PAHO/World Health Organization Collaborating Center for Autoimmune Diseases Center.



Advisory Board
Scientific Board

Grant Anhalt
Leon Gordis
Diane E. Griffin
Neal Halsey
Allan Hess
Douglas Jabs
J. Brooks Jackson
Thomas Kickler
Antony Rosen
Arthur Silverstein
Jerry Winkelstein

National Board

Dorothea Becker
Kathy Belitsos
Frederick T. DeKuyper
Linda Feinstone
Stanley Finger
Joseph Harun
Peter Havens
Margaret Himelfarb
Linda Otto
Deborah Rose
Donald Tourville


We are grateful for support from the American Autoimmune-Related Disease Association and Ms. Linda Otto.

The Fifth Autoimmunity Day was held on June 6 2003, and included the following program:

Morning Session: Stanely M. Finger, Chair

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

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


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:

Click 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:

Click the presenter's name to read summaries of the talks.
Morning Session: Jonathan Schneck, Chair

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

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:


Click the presenter's name for more information about them.
Morning Session: Fred Sanfilippo,Chair

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

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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