Scientific Programme
Sunday 8 June.30-15.00
Workshop 4 - Chronic Urticaria: An Update
Room 111
Chairpersons:
Alexander Kapp, Germany
Consuelo Martínez Cócera, Spain
Urticaria and infections
Bettina Wedi, Germany5.30-17.00
Infection & Allergy IG - Business Meeting and Session
Room 124/125
Chairpersons:
Christoph Grüber, Germany
Apostolos Bossios, Sweden
Infections & Allergy, Where We are Now?
Stephen Holgate, United Kingdom-22.30
JMA Poster Discussion
Corridor to Auditorium
Chairperson:
Luis Miguel Borrego, Portugal
“Functional Genomics and Proteomics & Infection and Allergy”.
Chairpersons:
Apostolos Bossios, Sweden
Mikael Benson, Sweden
Monday 9 June
10.30 - 12.00
GA2LEN Symposium - Advances in Allergy: Results from the GA²LEN Network
Room 115
Chairpersons:
Jean Bousquet, France
Peter Burney, United Kingdom
Interaction between allergens and viruses
Nikos Papadopoulos, Greece
12.00 - 13.30 LUNCH & POSTER VIEWING
Poster Session-New Aspects of Infection & Allergy (855)
Banquet Hall
Chairpersons:
Philippe Gevart, Belgium
Cristoph Grüber, Germany
13.30 - 15.00
Symposium 15 - Superantigens in Allergic Airway Disease
Room 117
Chairpersons:
Donald Leung, United States
Peter Schmid-Grendelmeier, Switzerland
Superantigens and mast cell/basophil triggering
Gianni Marone, Italy
Superantigens in severe asthma
Peter Howarth, United Kingdom
Superantigens in upper airways
Claus Bachert, Belgium
Workshop 18 - Indoor and Outdoor Aerobiology
Room 111
Chairpersons:
Heidrun Behrendt, Germany
Thomas Platts-Mills, United States
Human exposure to fungi and its relevance to health
Carlos Nunes, Portugal
15.30 - 17.00
Workshop 22 - Intervention on Allergic Response
Room 112
Chairpersons:
Susanne Lau, Germany
Magnus Wickman, Sweden
Lessons from Africa and Asia: the role of infections, diet and environment in the development of allergy
Ronald van Ree, The Netherlands
Year in Review – HIV
Room E1
Chairpersons:
Natalija Novak, Germany
Rola Abou Taam, France
HIV – update of the situation
Fernando Aiuti, Italy
Pediatric HIV
Paolo Rossi, Italy
Tuesday 10 June
07.30 – 08.15
Meet the Expert 24 - The Hygiene Hypothesis Revisited
Room 127/128
Harald Renz, Germany
10.30 - 12.00
Oral Abstract Session 22 - Infection and Allergy - Novel Experiments and Epidemiological Insights
Room 121
Introductory lecturer and chairperson
Sebastian Johnston, United Kingdom
Chairperson: Apostolos Bossios, Sweden
Introductory lecture: A new mouse model of virus induced asthma exacerbation
13.30 - 15.00
Symposium 23 - Atopic Eczema
Room Auditrorium
Chairpersons:
Johannes Ring, Germany
Mark Boguniewicz, United States
The role of micro-organisms
Thomas Werfel, Germany
15.30 - 17.00
Symposium 29 - Hygiene, Infection & Allergy
Room 112
Chairpersons:
Nikos Papadopoulos, Greece
Dolores Hernandez de Rojas, Spain
Bacteria and allergy
Roger Lauener, Switzerland
Viral infections in drug allergy
Cristobalina Mayorga, Spain
Parasite infections protect from allergy
Rick Maizels, United Kingdom
Wednesday 11 June
08.30 - 10.00
Poster Discussion Session 14 - Infection and Allergy – From Methodology to Risk
Factors
Room 127/128
Chairpersons:
Nikos Papadopoulos, Greece
Johan Alm, Sweden
