The 16th Naito Conference

Innate Immunity in Medicine and Biology [I]

Period	2003/10/28 (Tue.) - 2003/10/31 (Fri.)
Venue	Shonan Village Center（ Kanagawa-pref.）
Participants	Lectures：25 Posters：59

Pattern Recognition Proteins and the Insect Prophenoloxidase Cascade that Possibly be Involved in the Extracellular signaling for the Induction of Immune Protein Synthesis

[Masaaki Ashida]

Institute of Low Temperature Science, Hokkaido University, Japan
Recognition and Signaling in Drosophila Immunity

[Dan Hultmark]

Umea　Center for Molecular Pathogenesis, Umea University, Sweden
Macrophage Activation in Innate Immune Responses: From Genes to Function

[Alan Aderem]

Institute for System Biology, USA
Innate Recognition of Lipopolysaccharide by Toll-like Receptor 4 (TLR4)-MD-2

[Kensuke Miyake]

Division of Infectious Genetics, The Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Functional Role of Adaptors in the Toll-like Receptor Signaling

[Shizuo Akira]

Department of Host Defence, Research Institute for Micdobial Disease, Osaka University, Japan

Mannose-Binding Lectin in Host Defense

[Kazue Takahashi]

Laboratory of Developmental Immunology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, USA
Role of Mannan-Binding Protein, MBP, in Innate Immunity

[Toshisuke Kawasaki]

Department of Biological Chemistry, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kyoto University, Japan
Mouse C-type Lectins in Antigen Capture and Presentation

[Kayo Inaba]

Laboratory of Immunobiology, Department of Animal Development and Physiology, Division of Systemic Life Science, Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University, Japan
DC-Lectin Recognition of Self and Non-Self

[Yvette van Kooyk]

Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Vumc, The Netherlands
Molecular Evolution of Mannose-Binding Lectin(MBL), Ficolin, and MBL-Associated Serine Protease (MASP)

[Teizo Fujita]

Department of Biochemistry, Fukushima Medical University, Japan

Mechanisms and Consequences of Phagocytosis in Innate Immunity

[Peter M. Henson]

National Jewish Medical Research Center, USA
Negative Regulation of Macrophage Function through CD47 / SIRPα Interaction

[Per-Arne Oldenborg]

Department of Integrative Medical Biology, Umea University, Sweden
Molecular Mechanism and Physiological Functions of Autophagy

[Yoshinori Osumi]

Department of Cell Biology, Okazaki National Institute for Basic Biology, Jpana
Dependency on MHC Allelic Polymotphism in PA28-Regulated Antigen Processing

[Heiichiro Udono]

Department of Molecular Medicine, Division of Immunology, Nagasaki University School of Medicine, Japan
DNA Degradation and its Failure in Programmed Cell Death and Other Developmental Processes

[Shigekazu Nagata]

Department of Genetics, Osaka Univesity Medical School, and Laboratory of Genetics, Integrated Biology Laboratories, Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences, Osaka University, Japan

The Nox Family of NADPH-Oxidases: At the Crosroads of Cancer and Innate Immunity

[J. David Lambeth]

Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Emory University Medical School, USA
Reactive Oxygen Species as Microbicidal Agents: Molecular Mechanism for Activation of the Superoxide-Producing Phagocyte NADPH Oxidase

[Hideki Sumimoto]

Medical Institute of Bioregulation, Kyushu University, Japan
The Unfolded Protein Response: Signaling from the Endoplasmic Reticulum to the Nucleus

[Kazutoshi Mori]

Graduate School of Biosdudies, Kyoto University, Japan
Anti-Microbial Peptides as Signaling and Effector Molecules of Innate Immunity

[Richard L. Gallo]

Division of Dermatology, Department of Medicine and Pediatrics, University of California San Diego, USA
Orchestration of Myeloid and Plasmacytoid Dendritic cells (DCs) in Inducing Cytotoxic T Lymphocytes Through Distinct in Vivo Trafficking Pathway

[Kouji Matsushima]

Department of Molecular Preventive Medicine & SORST, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Japan

Drosophila Immunity: From Gene Expression Profiles to Molecular Functions

[Bruno Lemaitre]

Center de Genetique Molequlaire; CNRS, France
Recognition of Infectious Non-Self and Activation of Immune Responses by Peptidoglycan Recognition Protein (PGRP) -Family Members in Drosophila

[Shoichiro Kurata]

Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tohoku University, France
Biochemical Characterization and Biological Functions of Innate Immune Related Proteins During Pro-PO Activation Reaction

[Lee Bok Luel]

College of Pharmacy, Pusan National University, Korea
A Serine Protease Zymogen on Horseshoe Crab Hemocyte Functions as a Pattern-Recognition Protein for Lipopolysaccharides

[Shun-ichiro Kawabata]

Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Kyushu University, Japan
Innate Immunity in Crustaceans, the Propo-System and Hematopoeisis

[Kenneth Soderhall]

Department of Comparative Physiology, Uppsala University, Sweden