1 st German-Argentinean Workshop on Pathogen Invasion and Immune Evasion

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1 1 st German-Argentinean Workshop on Pathogen Invasion and Immune Evasion October Centro Metropolitano de Diseño Algarrobo 1041, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires 9:00 am Registration Tuesday 16 October 9:30 am Opening Remarks Francisco Cabrera. Minister of Economic Development. Government of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires Klaus Otto Schmidt. Minister of the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany Miguel Velardez. Director of Science and Technology Office. Ministry of Economic Development. Government of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires. 10:00 am Regulatory circuits mediated by galectin-glycan interactions in innate and adaptive immunity Gabriel A. Rabinovich. Laboratory of Immunopathology, Institute of Biology and Experimental Medicine (IBYME/ CONICET). Buenos Aires, Argentina. 11:00 am 11:30 am Cyclic-di-nucleotides: promising candidate adjuvants Carlos A. Guzman. Department of Vaccinology and Applied Microbiology, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI), Braunschweig, Germany.

2 12:00 pm Development of an oral vaccine platform based on the protective properties of surface proteins of the intestinal parasite Giardia lamblia Hugo D. Lujan. Laboratory of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. Universidad Católica de Córdoba and Center for Research and Development in Immunology and Infectious Diseases (CONICET). Córdoba, Argentina. 12:30 pm B cell as cytokine producers and regulatory cells in Trypanosoma cruzi infection Adriana Gruppi. CIBICI, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Córdoba, Argentina. 1:00 pm Lunch break 3:00 pm The immuno-endocrine component of tuberculosis pathophysiology I) Changes at the systemic level and the relationship with metabolic disturbances. Oscar Bottasso. Universidad Nacional de Rosario. Santa Fe, Argentina. II) Studies on the mechanisms implied in the altered production of adrenal steroids and glucocorticoid functioning. María Luisa Bay. Universidad Nacional de Rosario. Santa Fe, Argentina. 4:00 pm Expansion of Th17 and Th1-Th17 cells by outbreak multidrug-resistant clinical isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Silvia de la Barrera. Academia Nacional de Medicina. Buenos Aires, Argentina. 4:30 pm Role of B cells in tuberculous pleurisy María del Carmen Sasiaín- Academia Nacional de Medicina. Buenos Aires, Argentina.

3 5:00 pm 5:30 pm Mechanisms of tolerance and immunity during mycobacterial infection Luciana Berod. Twincore Institute. Hannover, Germany. 6:00 pm Understanding intracellular persistence of mycobacteria in macrophages Maximiliano Gutierrez. Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI), Braunschweig, Germany. 6:30 pm Multifaceted functions of SLPI: more than a serine protease inhibitor Eduardo Chuluyan. CEFYBO-UBA, Facultad de Medicina, UBA, Buenos Aires, Argentina. 7:00 pm Welcome cocktail

4 1 st German-Argentinean Workshop on Pathogen Invasion and Immune Evasion October Centro Metropolitano de Diseño Algarrobo 1041, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires Wednesday 17 October 10:00 am Intracellular pathogens: modulating the autophagic pathway to survive María I. Colombo- IHEM-CONICET- Facultad de Ciencias Médicas- Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. Mendoza, Argentina. 11:00 am 11:30 am Intestinal lymphoid cells and their role in gut infection Matthias Lochner. Twincore-Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI), Braunschweig, Germany. 12:00 pm Divide & conquer: Dendritic cells in adaptive immunity Georg Behrens. Medizinische Hochschule, Hannover, Germany. 12:30 pm Brucella infection through the airways: A story of invasion and evasion Pablo C. Baldi. IDEHU, Facultad de Farmacia y Bioquímica, UBA, Buenos Aires, Argentina. 1:00 pm

5 Lunch break 3:30 pm Interferferons in anti-viral defense Ulrich Kalinke. Twincore-Helmholtz Zentrum für Infektionsforschung, Hannover, Germany. 4:00 pm What interleukin-17 producing gamma-delta T cells can do against pathogens Immo Prinz. Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany. 4:30 pm Improving the MVA vaccine potential by deleting viral vector genes coding for proteins with host immune evasion functions Magdalena Guerardi. Facultad de Medicina, UBA. Buenos Aires, Argentina. 5:00 pm Pathogenesis and new therapeutic perspectives in HIV-infection Reinhold Schmidt. Medizinische Hochschule, Hannover, Germany. 5:30 pm 6:00 pm Tregs in infection and vaccinology: heroes or traitors? Tim Sparwasser. Twincore Medizinische Hochschule. Hannover, Germany.