KEYNOTE LECTURE

‘Evolutionary Origins of Innate Immunity’
Prof. Dr. Jules A. Hoffmann, Louis Pasteur University of Strasbourg, France

2ND INTERDISCIPLINARY SUMMIT ON INFLAMMATION

A) Molecular Pathogenesis of Acute and Chronic Inflammation
• Molecular Pathogenesis of Acute and Chronic Inflammation
• Activation of Inflammatory Processes: The Role of the Inflammasome
• Control of the Immune Response
• Immunomechanisms of Chronic Inflammatory Diseases

B) Monitoring of Inflammatory Disease: Biomarkers and Molecular Imaging
• Monitoring of Inflammatory Disease: Biomarkers
• Molecular Imaging in Infection, Inflammation and Beyond: Strategies and Applications (Part I & II)

C) Therapeutic Targeting of Inflammatory Disease Entities
• Therapeutic Targeting of Chronic Inflammatory Diseases
• Therapeutic Concepts in States of Acute Inflammation

TSIS 2010 SPECIAL CONFERENCES

Interdisciplinary Management of Obesity
• A) The Disease of Obesity: Novel Insights into Adipose Tissue Biology
• B) Goals and Initiation of Medical Therapy
• C) Bariatric Surgery: Cornerstones of Perioperative Management
• D) Bariatric Surgical Procedures: Technology, Efficacy, Advantages and Disadvantages
• E) Bariatric/Metabolic Surgery: Special Issues

Management of Massive Bleeding/Hemorrhagic Shock
• A) Incidence and Burden of Massive Hemorrhage
• B) Scientific Basis of Post Injury Coagulopathy
• C) Intravenous Volume Management
• D) Goals and Initiation of Medical Treatment
• E) Blood Replacement Therapy

TSIS 2010 SYMPOSIA

Cell- / Molecular Biology
• Innate Immunity: Friend or Foe?
• The Sterile Inflammatory Response
• Pattern Recognition Receptors: Major Contributors to the Inflammatory Response (Part A & B)
• Intersections between Antimicrobial Peptides, Alarmins and DAMPS
• Apoptotic, Necrotic and Autophagic Cell Death in Critically Illness
• Novel Cytokines of Inflammation and Sepsis – Biochemistry and Function
• Dysfunctional Cell Migration – Pathophysiologic Consequences
• Impact of Subcellular Organelle Dysfunction on Organ Failure in States of Trauma and Infection -
  Part A) Mitochondria
• Impact of Subcellular Organelle Dysfunction on Organ Failure in States of Trauma and Infection -
  Part B) Reticulum and Other Organelles

Clinical Pathophysiology
• Inflammation at Interfaces
• Genetics of Acute and Chronic Inflammatory Diseases
• Immune Dysfunction in Sepsis and Injured Animals/Patients: Update on the Immuno-Pathogenesis
  and -Pathophysiologys
• The Impact of Preexisting Comorbidities on Trauma Outcome
• Pathways Governing the Development, Control and Effects of Intestinal Inflammation
• The Inflammatory Reflex – Immunomechanistics and Clinical Aspects
• Endotoxin in Health and Disease - Clinical Relevance, Novel Diagnostics and Therapeutic
  Target: Update 2010 (Part A & B)
• Host Defense Mechanisms in Fungal Sepsis
• Crossroads of Inflammation and Cancer

Monitoring / Imaging
• Monitoring the Immunoinflammatory Response in Critical Illness:
• My Favourite Biomarker(s)/Analytical Advices for Clinical Use (Part A & B)
• Multidimensional Diagnostics in Severe Sepsis

Therapeutic Approaches
• Surviving Sepsis Campaign – Update 2010
• Controversies in Sepsis
• Pediatric Sepsis and Multi Organ Failure (Part A & B)
• Extracorporeal Immunotherapeutic Procedures in Critically Ill Patients
• Toll-Like Receptors Agonists and Antagonists for the Therapy of Inflammation and Infection
• Immunomodulatory Therapy of Sepsis – The Next Great Advance?
• Bacterial Sepsis and Vaccination Technology: New Treatment and Prevention Paradigms
• Novel Concepts and Targets for the Use of Vaccines
• Alpha-1-Antitrypsin (AAT) as a Novel Therapeutic in Inflammatory Diseases
• New Perspectives in the Treatment of Paralytic/Postoperative Ileus
• M.ultiple_O.rgan Re.programming-Re.generation_M.O.RE_for_M.O.D.S.
• Stem Cells/Progenitor Cell Therapies for Neurological Injuries
• Acute Inflammation as a Theraputic Target for Statins
• The Problem of Antibiotic Resistance, Superbugs and the Need for New Drugs
• Advances and New Concepts in Vacuum Therapy for Surgical Site Infection

23RD SIS-EUROPE CONGRESS ON SURGICAL INFECTIONS

• Cornerstones and Controversies in the Management of Severe Intraabdominal Infections (Part A, B & C)
• Management of Acute Biliary Tract Inflammation: Validation of the Tokyo Guidelines
• Implants and Other Crucial Contributors for the Development of SSI
• Management of Intestinal Failure
• Semmelweis Lecture:
  ‘Surgical Research, Clinical Studies and Quality of Science: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly’
  Prof. Dr. Eugen Faist, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany
• SIS-E Free Communications (Award) Session 1
• SIS-E Free Communications Session 2
• SIS-E Free Communications Session 3
• SIS-E-Poster Session

TSIS 2010 FREE COMMUNICATIONS

• Animal Models of Sepsis 1
• Animal Models of Sepsis 2
• A.E. Baue-Award-Session
• Biomarkers
• Coagulation Function and Resuscitation after Hemorrhage
• Danger, Alarmins and DAMPs
• Heat Shock Proteins
• Immunomodulation
• Inflammatory Lung Injury
• Inflammatory Stress Signalling
• Ischemia/Reperfusion Injury
• T-Cell Response Regulation in Stressful States
• Toll-Like Receptor Signalling in Inflammation and Infection (1)
• Toll-Like Receptor Signalling in Inflammation and Infection (2)
• Trauma, Critical Care & Outcome Prediction
• Trauma-Induced Immunodysfunction

TSIS 2010-POSTER SESSIONS

• Poster Session I
• Poster Session II
• Poster Session III

INDUSTRIAL SYMPOSIA

• Trends in Candidiasis (Astellas GmbH)
• Hemorrhage Control with ROTEM® (TEM International GmbH)