efis Actualities

Forthcoming Immunology Meetings

• "Metchnikoff's Legacy in 2008"

April 28-30, 2008 - Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

http://www.pasteur.fr/infosci/conf/sb/metchnikoff_2008/

• 3rd ENII-MUGEN Immunology Summer School
  website link: http://www.enii.org/index.php?pageId=91
  
  4-11 May 2008, Capo Caccia, Sardinia (IT)
  One week school in advanced immunology for PhD students and early post docs

• 6th Annual Meeting for Cancer Immunotherapy - CIMT 2008
  Organizer: Association for Immunotherapy of Cancer
  Place: Mainz, Germany
  Date: May 15-16, 2008
  Web: www.c-imt.org

• Lymphocyte kinetics in health and disease
  19-20 May 2008, London, UK

http://www.idrn.org/lymphocyte.php  

• International Symposium Innate Immunity

26-28 May, 2008

Münster, Germany

http://www.sii2008.de

• Mucosal Dendritic Cells: from basic science to HIV infection

Organized by the "Club Francophone des Cellules Dendritiques, CFCD". Institut Cochin, Paris, France.
June 5-6, 2008
Program, registration and information at: http://cfcd.cochin.inserm.fr

• Multiple Sclerosis: From Pathogenesis to Therapy

June 6, 2008, Espace Charles-Louis-Havas, Paris, France

http://www.nature.com/natureconferences/eandc/MS/index.html

• 6th International Symposium on Pneumococci and Pneumococcal Diseases (ISPPD-6)

June 8-12, 2008, Reykjavik, Iceland
http://www.congress.is/ISPPD-6/

E-mail: ISPPD-6@decode.is
Phone: +354 - 570 1941
Fax: +354 - 570 1903
Mobile: +354 - 664 1941

• MHC Class I molecules at the interface between Biology & Medicine

Awarded the 2008 EMBO Title: "Molecular Medicine Workshop"

July 4-6, 2008, Porto, Portugal

http://cwp.embo.org/w08-16/

Organized by Fernando A. Arosa (Porto, Portugal), Simon Powis (St. Andrews, UK) and György Vámosi (Debrecen, Hungary)

The Organization will provide 500€ awards to the best five abstracts submitted.

 

Any query regarding this scientific event can be obtained from the workshop

e-mail: mhci2008@ibmc.up.pt

• Frontiers in immunology research
  2008 International conference

Florence, Italy
July 22-26, 2008
Hotel Croce di Malta

The conference welcomes researchers from academia, corporations, governments and other organizations. Participants may present their research findings, display their posters, participate in roundtables or simply observe. To participate as a PRESENTER please submit via email and post

ABSTRACTS and/or brief descriptions of POSTERS (of no more than 200 words)
along with your complete details by March 30th, 2008 as follows:

Frontiers in Immunology Research Network (FIRN)
64 Holden Street
Worcester MA 01605-3109
USA
Tel.: 508-852-3937, Fax: 508-595-0089
Email: hkan@firnweb.com
Web: http://www.firnweb.com/FIRNCall08.htm

• Annual Meeting of the Scandinavian Society for Immunology

12-15 August, 2008, Stockholm

(The abstract submission deadline is prolonged to 15 April, 2008; Travel Grant deadline is postponed to 7 April 2008)

Leopoldina/efis-EJI Symposium on Evolution of Antiviral and Antibacterial Defense

September 4-6, 2008

Paul Ehrlich Lecture Hall
Schumannstrasse 21/22
Campus Charité Mitte, Berlin

 

Organizers:
Stefan H.E. Kaufmann, Berlin & Otto Haller, Freiburg

http://www.mpiib-berlin.mpg.de/research/Leopoldina_Poster.pdf

• 6th Euroconference on Apoptosis

September 6-9, 2008, Bern, Switzerland

http://www.immunologie.de/ENGLISCH/indexEnglish.html

• 2^nd Mediterranean Clinical Immunology Meeting
  (organized by the Turkish Society of Immunology with support of EFIS)

October 4 -7, 2008

Papillon Ayscha Hotel, Antalya, Turkey

 

http://www.clinicalimmunology2008.org/

• National Meeting of Developmental and Comparative Immunology

October 8 – 10, 2008, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany

http://www.uni-giessen.de/DCI

• Recent Advances in Cancer Immunotherapy with an Emphasis on Vaccines

Athens, Greece, October 9-11, 2008

Organized by the European Society of Cancer Immunology Immunotherapy (ESCII) and Progress in Vaccines against Cancer (PIVAC)

Organizing Committee: G Forni (I), R Kiessling (SWE), K Melief (NL), G Pawelec (D), M Papamichail (GR)

Local Chair: M Papamichail (GR). Congress Secretariat: ERA ltd: info@era.gr Tel: +30 210 3634 944. To register, visit: www.era.gr

• The 4th Congress of the Federation of Immunology Societies of Asia-Oceania

October 17-20, 2008, Taipei, Taiwan

Abstract submission deadline: July 1, 2008

http://www.fimsa2008.org

• Pathogenesis and Control of Emerging Infections and Drug-Resistant Organisms

October 22-27, 2008, Royal Orchid Sheraton Hotel • Bangkok, Thailand

Part of the Keystone Symposia Global Health Series • Supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

• 100th Anniversary of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1908 "in recognition of their work on immunity" to Paul Ehrlich and Elie Metchnikoff

December 12, 2008 in Berlin

 

http://www.100thanniversary2008.de/

• 1st ISCT Europe Regional Meeting 2009
  14 till 16 September 2008
  Cultural Conference Center ’t Elzenveld, Antwerp, Belgium
  www.iscteurope2008.org

• Vaccine 2nd Global Congress

7-9 December 2008 - Boston, MA, USA

Sponsored and Hosted by Vaccine

Administration by Elsevier

Abstract submission deadline: June 30th, 2008

April 26-29, 2009

San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Madrid

www.tnf2009.org

• 14th International Congress of Immunology

August 22-27, 2010
Kobe, Japan
Website: http://www.ici2010.org/

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