Mucosal Perspectives in pneumococcal disease

A one-day workshop focusing on stimulating research and collaborations on this topic

Date: Thurs 30 April 2009
Location: Liverpool Medical Institute

Report

Click here to download the report of the workshop. .........

Publication.

Click here for the published proceedings of the meeting, written by Adam Wright.

Full reference -
Mucosal perspectives in pneumococcal vaccine development: a meeting summary: a one-day international workshop focusing on stimulating research and collaborations on this topic. Wright AK. Vaccine. 2009 Dec 10;28(1):2-6.

Presentations

Dynamics of pneumococcal carriage and host response(s)
Helena Käyhty, National Public Health Institute of Finland

Host mechanisms for eradicating Streptococcus pneumoniae pneumonia
Jeremy Brown, UCL

Pneumolysin: Immunogen and adjuvant
Tim Mitchell, University of Glasgow

The interaction between respiratory viruses and bacteria
Tracy Hussell, Imperial College London

Naturally acquired immunity in humans - modelling B & T cell responses to vaccine candidates in vitro
Professor Adam Finn, University of Bristol

An in vitro model used to assess the effects of nanoparticles on the epithelial airway barrier
Martin Clift, University of Bern, Switzerland

Liverpool Biomedical Research Centre
Prof Cheng-Hock Toh, University of Liverpool

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Distribution list

Click here for an Excel document. The password should already have been emailed to you.
Note, the document and password should not be forwarded on, this is purely for the attendees of the workshop.

Contact

Please direct queries to Michael Head, mhead@idrn.org , or phone 020 7830 2239.