Conferences

Lung infection and immunity, Estoril 2015

The ERS Lung Science Conference is important for both scientists and clinicians with an interest in the basis of lung disease.

Educational aims

To present the very best of international lung science research
To highlight new discoveries likely to impact on the future of respiratory medicine
To encourage debate and interaction between young postdoctoral scientists and established investigators

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The microbiome in interstitial lung disease T. Maher (London, United Kingdom)
Macrophage apoptosis after bacterial infection is regulated by Mcl-1 ubiquitination/deubiquitination H. Marriott (Sheffield, United Kingdom)
Host-microbe interactions: implications for protective immunity in the lung B. Marsland (Lausanne, Switzerland)
Accumulation of hyaluronan in the lumen of the airways enhances the pathology of respiratory viral infection T. Bell (Manchester, United Kingdom)
Pathogen sensing: from flies to mammals J.L. Imler (Strasbourg, France)
The inflammasome in health and disease G. Nunez (Ann Arbor, United States of America)
The epithelium inflammasome: is it important against mucosal infections? D. Ojcius (Merced, United States of America)
Silica nanoparticles enhance mortality and increase lung permeability during Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection I. Garcia-Verdugo (Paris, France)
Poster session I N. Reynoird (Stanford, United States of America), L. Miralles (Sabadell, Spain), Y.T. Li (Taichung, Taiwan), A. Faiz (Groningen, Netherlands), B. Scally (Edinburgh, United Kingdom), B. Selvakumar (Giessen, Germany), D. Anthony (Melbourne, Australia), Y. Balachandran (Saskatoon, Canada), C. Mirella Spalluto (Southampton, United Kingdom), C. Bellinghausen (Maastricht, Netherlands), J. Wallington (Southampton, United Kingdom), C. Sattler (Munich, Germany), K.J. Staples (Southampton, United Kingdom), J. Periselneris (London, United Kingdom), M. Sokolowska (Bethesda, United States of America), A.D. Giannou (Patras, Greece), C. Volgers (Maastricht, Netherlands), F. Rusu-Cordunean (Iasi, Romania), M. Hassane (Lille, France), A. Heinrich (Berlin, Germany), R. Martinez-Nunez (Southampton, United Kingdom), W.Y. Chan (London, United Kingdom), T.J. Kidd (Brisbane, Australia), M. To (Saitama, Japan), P. Molyneaux (London, United Kingdom), A. Hill (Southampton, United Kingdom), A. Justet (Paris, France), N. Moyo (Liverpool, United Kingdom), S. Ebener (Bern, Switzerland), D. Dimov (Stara Zagora, Bulgaria), I. Psallidas (Oxford, United Kingdom), F. Gally (Denver, United States of America), M. Terlizzi (Fisciano, Italy), C. de Souza Carvalho (Saarbrucken, Germany), L. Spagnuolo (Milan, Italy), A. Schoegler (Bern, Switzerland), A.L. Durham (London, United Kingdom), C. Blume (Southampton, United Kingdom), R. Toshner (London, United Kingdom)
Management of an infectious outbreak in the modern era M. Catchpole (Stockholm, Sweden), Bart Haagmans (Rotterdam, Netherlands)
Macrophage released TNF-related apoptosis-inducing ligand (TRAIL) impairs alveolar fluid clearance after Influenza A virus infection C. Becker (Giessen, Germany)
Pathomechanisms mediating bacterial co-infection following respiratory viral disease T. Hussell (London, United Kingdom)
A novel immune regulatory function of neutrophils in rhinovirus infections F. Tang (Sydney, Australia)
Bacterial burden in rhinovirus-induced asthma exacerbations E. Wong (London, United Kingdom)
A functional variant of secretory leukocyte protease inhibitor (SLPI) with improved anti-inflammatory activity against pulmonary infection A. Glasgow (Belfast, United Kingdom)
Regulation of regulatory T cell (Treg) function by cAMP-responsive element binding protein (CREB) and upstream microRNAs S. Bartel (Munich, Germany)
Syndecan-1 attenuates lung injury during influenza infection by activating survival signals via c-Met R. Brauer (Los Angeles, United States of America)
Poster session II A. Bevz (Moscow, Russia), T. Mathew (Delhi, India), S. van den Broucke (Leuven, Belgium), O. Ojo (Winnipeg, Canada), S.J. Bonvini (London, United Kingdom), L. Wolf (Homburg, Germany), I. Nita (Bern, Switzerland), T. Maes (Ghent, Belgium), J. Tilman (London, United Kingdom), K. Russell (London, United Kingdom), A. Day (London, United Kingdom), J. Schrumpf (Leiden, Netherlands), J. Periselneris (London, United Kingdom), S.M. Shambat (Stockholm, Sweden), M. Kostric (Neuherberg, Germany), R. Blom (Bern, Switzerland), D. Tsavlis (Thessaloniki, Greece), R. Sorrentino (Fisciano, Italy), S.J. Dumas (Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France), I. Keller (Munich, Germany), J. Esser-von Bieren (Lausanne, Switzerland), J. Upham (Brisbane, Australia), L. Jankauskaite (Giessen, Germany), A. Stucki (Bern, Switzerland), K. Huttunen (Cardiff, United Kingdom), K. Fru Che (Stockholm, Sweden), F. Verhamme (Ghent, Belgium), A. Byrne (London, United Kingdom), S. Provoost (Ghent, Belgium), L. Pollaris (Leuven, Belgium), M. Tine (Padua, Italy), S. Zarogiannis (Birmingham, United States of America), C. Ballester Lopez (Munich, Germany), O. Bardou (Paris, France), H. Rupani (Southampton, United Kingdom), R. Robinson (London, United Kingdom), M.Z. Ladjemi (Brussels, Belgium), O. Robak (Berlin, Germany)
We train rats to save lives C. Mulder (Hoeverlaken, Netherlands)
Regulation of neutrophilic inflammation in community acquired pneumonia R. José (London, United Kingdom)
Macrophage-epithelial communication in pneumonia J. Bhattacharya (New York, United States of America)
Mucosal immunity and novel vaccines against tuberculosis Z. Xing (Hamilton, Canada)