The 18th Naito Conference

Innate Immunity in Medicine and Biology [II]

Period	2005/10/25 (Tue.) - 2005/10/28 (Fri.)
Venue	Shonan Village Center（ Kanagawa-pref.）
Participants	Lectures：26 Posters：38

Molecular Mechanisms of Plasmodium Elimination in the Midgut of Anopheles Gambiae

[Elena A. Levashina]

Institut de Biologie Moleculaire et Cellulaire, CNRS, France
Molecular Mechanisms for Malarial Sporozoites Liver Infection

[Tomoko Ishino]

Department of Medical Zoology School of Medical Zoology School of Medicine, Mie University, Japan
Redox Homeostasis in Drosophila Gut Immunity

[Won-Jae Lee]

Division of Molecular Life Science, Ewha Woman's University, South Korea
New Signaling Pathways Involved in Insect Immunity and Microbial Pathogenesis

[David S. Schneider]

Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University, USA
Intracellular Survival Strategy of Shigella

[Chihiro Sasakawa]

Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo, Japan
Host-Pathogen Interactions: the Listeria Paradigm

[Pascale Cossart]

Unite des interactions Bacteries-Cellules, Institut Pasteur, France

Apoptotic Cell Clearance and Autoimmune Disease

[Masato Tanaka]

Laboratory for Innate Cellular Immunity, Research Center for Allergy and Immunology, RIKEN Yokohama Institute, Japan
Molecular Mechanism of Substate-Recognition of Glycoprotein-Specific Ubiquitin-Ligases

[Yukiko Yoshida]

Laboratory of Frontier Science, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science, Japan
Subversion of Host Innate Immunity by Pathogenic Mycobacteria

[Jean Pieters]

Department of Biochemistry, University of Basel, Switzerland
Interaction of Salmonella with its Mammalian Host Cell

[Jogre E. Galan]

Section of Microbial Pathogenesis, Yale University School of Medicine, Boyer Center for Molecular Medicine, USA
Molecular Mechanisms of Membrane Trafficking and Protein Sorting - What We Can Learn from Yeast and Plants

[Akihiko Nakano]

Molecular Membrane Biology Laboratory, RIKEN Discovery Research Institute, Japan

Enigmas of Emerging Viral Infections

[Yoshihiko Kawaoka]

Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Institute of Medical Science,University of Tokyo, Japan
Host Genes and Functions in Positive-Strand RNA Virus Replication

[Paul Ahlquist]

Institute for Molecular Virology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Wisconsin, USA
Neurovirulence of Poliovirus

[Akio Nomoto]

Department of Microbiology, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Japan
Defensive Arts: Editing as Intrinsic Antiviral Immunity

[Didier Trono]

Ecole Polytechnique Federal de Lausanne, School of Life Sciences, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Switzerland
Regulation of Hepatitis C Virus Replication by Cyclophilin B through Targetting Virus Polymerase Function

[Kunitada Shimotohno]

Department of Viral Oncology Institute for Virus Research, Kyoto University, Japan

Induction of IFN Gene Expression by Virus Infection: Shared and Unique Functions of the DExD/H-box Helicases RIG-I, MDA5 and LGP2

[Takashi Fujita]

Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, Institute for Virus Research, Kyoto University, Japan
Control of Host Defenses by Hepatitis C Virus

[Michael Gale, Jr.]

Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, USA
ROS-Dependent ASK1-MAP Kinase Signaling in Apoptosis and Immunity

[Hidenori Ichijo]

Laboratory of Cell Signaling, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Tokyo, Japan
Role of Hypoxic Response in Innate Immunity

[Randall S. Johnson]

Molecular Biology Section, Division of Biological Sciences, University of California, San Diego, USA
Role of Lipid Mediators in Inflammation and Immune Disorders

[Takao Shimizu]

Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Japan

Prostanoid-Mediated Body Defense Mechanism and Outcome of their Breakdown

[Shuh Narumiya]

Department of Pharmacology, Kyoto University Faculty of Medicine, Japan
ER Stress and ER-Associated Degradation of Misfolded Proteins

[Kazuhiro Nagata]

Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Institute for Frontier Medical Sciences, Kyoto University, Japan
Redox Regulation of Stress Responses and Energy Metabolism by TRX/TBP-2 System

[Junji Yodoi]

Department of Biological Responses, Institute for Virus Research, Kyoto University, Japan
Cellular Responses to Unfolded Proteins in the Endoplsmic Reticulum - the ER Stress Response

[David Ron]

Skirball institute, New York University School of Medicine, USA
Transcription Factor Regulation of Cellular Defense Mechanisms against Electrophiles and Reactive Oxygen Species

[Masayuki Yamamoto]

Center for Tsukuba Advanced Research Alliance, University of Tsukuba, Japan