Nagoya Immunology Network in NCU
The first international symposium

Date:

March 11 (Mon.), 2019

Venue:

Main Auditorium, Nagoya City University Hospital 3rd floor (Symposium)
The first conference room, Nagoya City University Hospital 4th floor (Poster session)

Organizer: Sayuri Yamazaki, Department of Immunology, Graduate School of Medical Sciences,
Nagoya City University
Contents:
Schedule

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Information
Instructions for Oral Presentations / Poster Presentations

4Access

5Floor Map

6Symposia
Session 1

8Session 2

16Session 3

22Session 428

Poster Session

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Sponsored by Grand-in-Aid for Research in Nagoya City University
Supported by Nagoya City University Medical Association1

Schedule

Opening remarks
8:50 - 8:55

Kenjiro Kohri (Chairman and President, NCU, Japan)

8:55 - 9:00

Makoto Michikawa (Dean, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, NCU, Japan)

Session 1
9:00 - 9:20

Chair: Hidehiro Fukuyama, Mikael Karlsson
Sayuri Yamazaki (NCU, Japan)
Promoting research of immunoregulation by the Nagoya Immunology Network

9:20 - 9:40

Hidehiro Fukuyama (RIKEN, Japan)
Towards universal vaccines against influenza virus

9:40 - 10:00

Makoto Tsuiji (Hoshi Univ., Japan)
Variable gene repertoirome analysis of peripheral blood BCRs and CD4+
TCRb for qualitative evaluation of cancer-associated immune response

10:00 - 10:30

Mikael Karlsson (Karolinska Inst., Sweden)
Exogenous glycolipids override a regulatory role of iNKT cells during autoinflammation

10:30 - 11:00

BreakSession 2
11:00 - 11:30

Chair: Guide Ferlazzo, Makoto Tsuiji
Guido Ferlazzo (Messina Univ., Italy)
Natural killer lymphocytes in atherosclerosis

11:30 - 12:00

Yasumasa Ishida (NAIST, Japan)
PD-1, Cancer, and Self-Nonself Discrimination

12:00 - 12:30

Hiroyoshi Nishikawa (Nagoya Univ. and NCC, Japan)
Immune suppressive network within the tumor microenvironment

Poster presentation
12:30 - 14:30

2(‘The 1st conference room’ on the 4th floor of NCU hospital)
Poster presenters

Session 3
14:30 - 15:00

Chair: Sayuri Yamazaki, Naganari Ohkura
Hirokazu Matsushita (Aichi Cancer Center, Japan)
The role of mutation-derived neoantigens in cancer therapy: A possible Immune
evasion mechanism through reduced neoantigen expression in glioma

15:00 - 15:30

Sachiko Akashi-Takamura (Aichi Med Univ., Japan)
C4b-binding protein negatively regulates cell-surface TLR response

15:30 - 16:00

Hitoshi Nagaoka (Gifu Univ., Japan)
To express, or not to express: a study of Aicda gene

16:00 - 16:20
Session 4
16:20 - 16:50

Break
Chair: Akimichi Morita, Yasuhito Tanaka (or Masanori Isogawa)
Naganari Ohkura (Osaka Univ. and Kyoto Univ., Japan)
Significance of naïve Treg-specific DNA hypomethylation in autoimmune
disease susceptibility

16:50 - 17:10

Masanori Isogawa (NCU, Japan)

17:10 - 17:30

The impact of hepatic antigen presentation on HBV-specific CD8 T cell
responses
Akimichi Morita (NCU, Japan)
New immunological aspects of phototherapy for refractory skin diseases

17:30 - 17:50

Hidetoshi Hayashi (NCU, Japan)
TGF-β induces p53/Smads complex formation in the PAI-1 promoter to activatetranscription

Closing remarks
17:50 - 17:55

Reception

Hidetoshi Hayashi (Dean, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, NCU,Japan)(‘SAKURASIDE TERRACE’ on the 1st floor of NCU West Building)

18:30 - 20:00

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