UKPIN Forum 2007

09:50

Welcome and introduction

Aarnoud Huissoon

10:00-12:30

New Paradigms in susceptibility to infection

Chair: Aarnoud Huissoon

10:00

Novel primary immunodeficiencies associated with pneumococcal disease

Capucine Picard, Paris

10:35

Salmonella bacteraemia in Africa. Clues to immunity from studying immunodeficiency

Calman MacLennan, Birmingham

11.00

Biological therapies and new immune deficiencies

Paul Emery, Leeds

11.40

The Hyper IgE syndrome: a historical perspective and clinical features

Rebecca Buckley, USA

11.55

Identification of genetic mutation in autosomal dominant Hyper-IgE syndrome

Bodo Grimbacher, London

13:30-15:35

Parallel Session 1

Laboratory diagnosis of Immune Defects – the next 10 years*

Chair: Berne Ferry

13:30

Defects in NFkB signalling

Eduardo Lopes-Granados, Oxford

14:00

Toll-like receptor defects

T W Kuijpers, Amsterdam

14:30

HLH / XLP

Kimberly Gilmour, London

TREC by flow cytometry

Stuart Adams, London

ELISpot / CFSE applications

Berne Ferry / Malini Bhole, Oxford

B cell somatic hypermutation

Anna Ridley, Southampton

Pneumococcal antibodies by multiplex analysis

Andrew Exley, Cambridge

13:30-15:35

Parallel Session 2

Chair: Fran Ashworth
Lucia Russell

13:30

Setting up a C1 inhibitor home therapy programme

Nicole McIntosh, London

14:00

HAE: The PiA survey. Current access to treatment and future options

Sofia Grigoriadou, London

14:30

Title TBC

Peter Vickers,

15:00

FAQs for nurses new to Immunology

Fran Ashworth, Sheffield
& Lucia Russell, Newcastle

16:00-16:30

UKPIN Business

Chair: Richard Herriot

16:00

Introduction and Current Issues

Richard Herriot, Aberdeen

16:10

vCJD update

Matthew Helbert,. Manchester

16:20

BSI-CIAS

Stephen Jolles, Cardiff

16:30-17:30

Trainee Presentations

Judging Panel: Helen Chapel, Taco Kuijpers

Chair: Sujoy Khan, Berne Ferry

16:30

Selected poster presentations

3 x 10 mins

17:00

Diagnostic Dilemmas

3 x 10 mins