Time

Programme

9:00 - 9:15

Session 1

Chairman: Professor Pixin Ran

Chairman of Board of Guangzhou Medical University

Welcoming speeches

Professor Xinhua Wang

President of Guangzhou Medical University  

Session 2

9：15-10：00

10：00 – 10：20

Chairman：Professor Nanshan Zhong

Academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering

Director,State Key Lab of Respiratory Disease，Guangzhou Medical University

Nobel Lecture: Evolutionary Perspectives of Innate Immunity

Professor Jules A Hoffmann,2011 Nobel Prize Laureate

University of Strasbourg, France

Question & Answer

10：20-10：30

Tea Break

Session 3

10：30-11：00

Chairman：Professor Xiaoping Chen

State Key Lab of Respiratory Disease,Guangzhou Medical University

Topic： Roles of Akirin in the Control of Immune Gene Expression in Drosophila (tbc)

Professor Jean-Marc Reichhart

University of Strasbourg

11：00-11：30

Topic：Complement: interaction with Toll-like receptors and role in human diseases

Professor Wenchao Song

University of Pennsylvania

Time

Programme

Session 4

14；30-14：50

Chairman：Professor Jun Tang

Guangzhou Medical University

Topic：Antiviral Defenses : the Drosophila Model

Professor Jean-Luc Imler

University of Strasbourg

14：50-15：10

Topic：Epigenetic regulation of immune cells and malignancy

Professor Xianxin Hua

University of Pennsylvania

15：10 -15：30

Topic： Role of plasma kallikrein on NMDA receptor mediated neuronal injury in ischemic stroke

Assitant Professor Gongxiong Wu

Harvard Medical School

15：30-15：50

Topic：Role of Inflammation in Breast Cancer Metastasis

Associate Professor Peter Zhou

University of Kentucky

15：50-16：00

Tea Break

                 Session 5

16：00-16：20

Chairman:Professor Yi Li

State Key Lab of Respiratory Disease,Guangzhou Medial University

Topic：Nucleic Acid Binding Proteins and Innate Immunity

Associate Professor Wen Ming Chu

University of Hawaii

16：20-16：40

Topic：TLR recognition of AT1-IL6R heterodimers in autoimmune diseases

Associate Professor Yinghong Feng

Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences,USA      

16：40-17：00

Topic：Pancreatic beta cells as target for the treatment of diabetes

Assistant Professor Gang Xu 

The Chinese University of Hong Kong

17：00-17：20

Topic：Insulin signaling in regulation of energy homeostasis

Professor Xiaosong Ma

Guangzhou Medical University