Welcome to EMDS 2011

The Annual Meeting of the European Macrophage and Dendritic Cell Society will take place in Brussels this year.

Abstract book

The EMDS 2011 abstract book is now available for download as a pdf: click here.

 

Symposium Topics

Clinical and fundamental aspects of monocyte, macrophage and dendritic cell plasticity

  • Regulation of the monocyte, macrophage and DC pool

  • Monocytes, macrophages and DCs in distinct organs and tissues

  • Monocytes, macrophages and DCs in infectious diseases

  • Monocytes, macrophages and DCs in cancer

  • Inflammatory signaling in macrophages and DCs

  • Macrophage activation states

  • Imaging the behaviour of monocytes, macrophages and DCs

 

Invited Speaker List

 Judith E. Allen  Bart Lambrecht  Antonio Sica
 Rudi Beyaert  Suzanne Ostrand-Rosenberg  Michael H. Sieweke
 Philippe Bousso  Mikael Pittet  Frank Tacke
 Thorsten Hagemann  Fiona Powrie  Yvette van Kooyk
 Steffen Jung  Gwendalyn J. Randolph  Guenter Weiss

More detailed congress program

 

Additional symposium attraction points

  • Focused and highly interactive meeting with non-concurrent plenary presentations and poster sessions.

  • Short oral presentations and article contributions for a special issue of Immunobiology selected from submitted abstracts.

  • Awarding of travel grants and poster prizes (prizes sponsored by EMDS).

  • Biannual EMDS prize lecture for excellence in the field of macrophage or dendritic cell biology by Nicole Kaneider (prize sponsored by Becton-Dickinson Biosciences).

  • Free satellite lunch seminar on the use of FlowJo for analysis of multi-parameter flow cytometry data (sponsored by Celeza GmbH)

  • Congress Dinner in a masterpiece of Art Nouveau architecture designed by Victor Horta at the Belgian Comic Strip Center.

  • Discover Brussels: a vibrant, multi-cultural city at the heart of Europe.

 

 

Current sponsors