Programme:

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Innate Immunity: Evolution

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Jean March Reichhart (Strasbourg, France) – Drosophila and human innate immunity: an evolutionary perspective

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Jonathan Ewbank (Marseille, France) – Innate immunity in C. elegans

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Innate Immunity:  Effector  and Regulatory Mechanisms

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Alberto Mantovani (Milan, Italy) –  The humoral arm of innate immunity and its interplay with cellular regulatory mechanisms

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Siamon Gordon (Oxford, UK) – Macrophages in infection and malignancy

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Susanna Cardell (Gothenburg, Sweden) – NKT cells in mice and human and their effectors and regulatory mechanisms

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Lorenzo Moretta (Genoa, Italy) – Human NK cell receptors and function

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Francesco Tedesco (Trieste, Italy) – The complement system: a new life for an old system

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Francesca Granucci (Milan, Italy) – Innate immunity and toll-like Receptor (TLR)

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Christian Münz (Zurich, Switzerland) – DC biology and therapy

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Niels Borregaard (Copenhagen, Denmark) -- Basic and translational aspects of neutrophils

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Innate Immunity in Therapy

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Andrea Velardi (Perugia, Italy) – Progress in NK cell immunotherapy in haploidentical hematopoietic transplantation

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Edward Lavelle (Dublin, Ireland) – Innate immunity and adjuvants in vaccine design

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Dieter Kabelitz (Kiel, Germany) – Gamma delta T cell biology and its use in therapy

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The Course takes place in memory and in honour of the Ceppellini School Founder Serafino Zappacosta.

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