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Colloquium 2008 Program

Outline Program:  Be advised that program and speakers are subject to change

 

 

12 May
16:00 Registration Opens  
18:00 - 20:00 Welcome Reception at the Historic Carolina Inn  
13 May Session I: Systems Biology Chairs: Konrad Reinhart/John Marshall
09:00 - 09:25 Systems Biology - Practice and Challenges Michael Yaffe, USA
09:25 - 09:50 Lessons Learned from the Co-evolution Between the Mammal Innate Immune System and the Microbial Community Phillippe Sansonetti, France
09:50 - 10:15 How Holistic "Microbial Community" Approaches will lead to better Anti-infective Strategies Margaret Riley, USA
10:15 - 10:45 Coffee Break  
10:45 - 11:10 Systems Biology of Infection: Potential and Challenges Dick Bumann, CH
11:10 - 11:35 How Far can a Systems Biology Approach Help to Predict the Outcome in Clinical Research? Steven Chang, USA
11:35 - 12:30 Lunch  
  Session II: Genomics Chairs: Jean-Francois Dhainaut/Steven Opal
12:30- 13:15 Genetic Background, Morbidity and Development of Multi-organ Failure-What has been Proven? Derek Angus,USA
13:15 - 13:40 Genetic Predisposition to Infection and Sepsis - Fact or Fiction? Jean-Paul Mira, France
13:40 - 14:05 Parmacogenomics - Lessons Learnt from Other Fields D B Goldstein, USA
14:05 - 14:30 Break  
  Session III: The Challenges in Sepsis Research Chairs; Thierry Calandra/Dereck Angus
14:30 - 14:55 Sepsis as a Complex Non-Linear Syndrome - and the Limitations of Single Molecule Approaches Tim Buchman, USA
14:55 - 15:20 The Limitations of Current Sepsis Diagnosis and Inclusion Critirea in Clinical Sepsis Trials John Marshall, CDA
15:20 - 15:45 Functional Neuroanatomy of the Cytokine Network: Implications for Target Identification and Drug Discovery Kevin Tracey, USA
15:45 - 16:15 Panel Discussion  
19:00 Dinner at the Historic Carolina Inn  
14 May Session IV: The Challenges in Pathogen Detection and Diagnosis of Infection Chairs: Jean-francois Dhainaut/Tom Van der Poll
08:30 - 08:55 Pathogen Functional Genomics in Yeast Infection Bernhard Hube, GE
08:55 - 09:20 The Role of Detection and Rapid Diagnosis in Treating Infection and Sepsis Thierry Calandra, CH
09:20 - 09:45 The Potential and Limitations of Current Sepsis Markers Konrad Reinhart, GE
09:45 - 10:10 The Clinical Impact of Pathogen Resistance Steven Opal, USA
10:10 - 10:35 The Question of Resistance: Why does it develop and future ways to detect it? Gerry Wright, CDA
10:35 - 11:00 Break  
  Session V: From Single Genes to Transcriptional Profiling Chairs: Kevin Tracey/Jean-Paul Mira
11:00 - 11:25 Can the Host Response be Used to Identify the Pathogen? Lyle Moldawer, USA
11:25 - 11:50 Lessons Learnt from well Defined PAMP's S E Calvano, USA
11:50 - 12:15 Lessons Learnt from Controlled Experimental Settings Tom van der Poll, The Netherlands
12:15 - 13:15 Lunch  
13:15 - 13:40 Potential and Limitations of Transcriptional Profiling to Better Understand the Pathophysiology of Trauma and Systemic Inflammation Lyle Moldawer, USA
13:40 - 14:05 Clinical Utility of Transcriptional Profiling in Human Sepsis Michael Bauer, GE
14:05 - 14:30 Diagnostic Implications of Physiologic Diagnosis Andrew Seely, Canada
14:30 - 15:00 BREAK  
  Session VI: Proteomics Chairs: Konrad Reinhart/Tom Van der Poll
15:00 - 15:25 Potential of Proteomics for Oncological Diagnosis Emmanuel Petricoin, USA
15:25 - 16:00 Panel Discussion  
16:00 Closing Remarks Konrad Reinhart/John Marshall