Quantitative T cell Immunology Meeting

Programme, Thursday 29th August


10.00	Coffee	Hamilton Institute, NUI Maynooth
10.45	Bernard Mahon VP Research NUI Maynooth	Opening address
11.00	Philip Hodgkin WEHI	Invited introduction: Stretching the truth about the lymphocyte cell cycle
12.00	Paul Moynagh NUI Maynooth	Invited talk: NUI Maynooth's Institute of Immunology
12.20	Shalin Naik WEHI	Invited talk: Immunology Division, Walter and Elisa Hall Institute of Medical Research
12.40	Walt Mankowski Drexel University	Invited talk: Dept. of Computer Science, Drexel University
13.00	Lunch	Pugin Hall, NUI Maynooth
14.00	Rob de Boer Utrecht University	Heterogeneous differentiation patterns of individual CD8 T cells
14.20	José Borghans University Medical Centre Utrecht	Leukocyte turnover in health and disease
14.40	Ton Schumacher NKI	Understanding T cell behavior at the single cell level
15.00	Coffee
15.30	Thomas Eissing Bayer Technology Services	Multiscale modeling of pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics: from whole-body physiology to molecular biochemistry
15.50	Becca Asquith Imperial College London	The CD8+ T cell response to persistent viruses
16.10	Grant Lythe University of Leeds	Stochastic modelling: populations, cells, encounters, receptors, homeostasis
16.30	Michael Davies Unilever UK	Modelling immune responses for skin allergy risk assessment
19.00	Dinner for network partners	Stone Haven Restaurant, Mill Street, Maynooth (5 minutes walk from the Glenroyal hotel and Hamilton Institute)


9.30	Grant Lythe and Carmen Molina-Paris University of Leeds	Overview of QuanTI
9.45	Venelina Koleva, QuanTI coordinator	ITN management: recruitment, finance, budgets, reporting etc. and questions
10.15	Coffee
11.00	Ines Amado Institute Pasteur	Quorum-sensing controls the size of the IL2-producing CD4 T cell pool
11.20	Benedita Rocha INSERM
11.40	Tomas Höfer DKFZ	Data driven models of T cell fate decisions
12.00	Cathal Seoighe NUI Galway	Promiscuous mRNA splicing under the control of AIRE in medullary thymic epithelial cells
12.20	Ken Duffy NUI Maynooth	Can T cell signal integration be understood through competing stochastic processes?
13.00	Lunch	Pugin Hall, NUI Maynooth
14.00-17:00	Management meeting	Supervisory board