Monday 14th April

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12.45-13.00 -- Anna Piccinini --​ Welcome

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13.00-14.30​ -- The ECM and the immune system -- Chairs: Kim Midwood and Matthew Burgess

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13.00-13.30 -- Judith Allen (Manchester, UK) -- The cytokine IL-13: a master regulator of the extracellular matrix

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13.30-13.45 -- Simone Scilabra (Palermo, Italy) -- iRhom2 regulates ectodomain shedding and surface expression of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I

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13.45-14.00 -- Casimiro Gerarduzzi (Montreal, Canada) -- Neutrophils mediate kidney fibrosis through the expression of various matrix proteins

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14.00-14.30 -- Janet Lee (St Louis, USA) -- Stabilizing the early provisional matrix in lung injury

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(14.30-15.30 -- BSMB AGM)

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14.30-15.30 -- Posters (even numbers), trade stands with tea & coffee

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15.30-17.00 -- ECM-pathogen interactions and the immune response -- Chairs: Joan Chang and Sean Brennan

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15.30-16.00 -- Kristian Riesbeck (Lund, Sweden) -- Outer membrane proteins of respiratory tract bacteria and their interactions with the extracellular matrix

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16.00-16.15 -- Emiliya Seytyagyayeva (Manchester, UK) -- Modulation of collagen fibril formation by chitinase-like proteins

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16.15-16.30 -- Richard Farndale (Cambridge, UK) -- Roles for collagen in infection and immunity

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16.30-17.00 -- Henry McSorley (Dundee, UK) -- Heparan sulphate binding controls in vivo half-life of the parasite derived-protein HpARI immunomodulatory protein family

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17.00-17.15 -- Comfort break

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17.15-18.00 -- Kim Midwood (Oxford, UK) -- Fell-Muir Award: Targeting the matrix to treat inflammatory diseases

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18.00-19.00 -- Posters (odd numbers), trade stands with wine reception

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19.30 -- Conference dinner

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​​Tuesday 15th April

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09.00-10.30 -- ECM-immune system crosstalk in lung infections -- Chairs: Karen Patterson and Charles Gyasi 

 

09.00-09.30 --Tracy Hussell (Manchester, UK) -- Matrix modulation of lung inflammatory tone

 

09.30-09.45 -- Holly Sedgwick (Manchester, UK) -- Investigating B cell dynamics and interaction with the extracellular matrix in chronic lung disease

 

09.45-10.00 -- Iashia Mulholland (Manchester, UK) -- The endothelial glycocalyx as a regulator of immune cell recruitment in lung viral infection

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10.00-10.30 -- Charles Frevert (Seattle, USA) -- Versican-Hyaluronan Matrices: Key Players in the Innate Immune Response to Influenza A Virus

 

10.30-11.15 -- Posters (even and odd numbers), trade stands with tea & coffee

 

11.15-12.45 -- ECM cues and the immune response to infection -- Chairs: Douglas Dyer and Chloe Stewart

 

11.15-11.45 -- Hélène Moreau (Paris, France) -- ECM topography and immune cell migration

 

11.45-12.00 -- Rebecca Dodd (Manchester, UK) -- Injury from nematode lung migration induces an IL-13 dependent hyaluronan matrix

 

12.00-12.15 -- Anika Assaraf (Southampton, UK) --Engineering 3D alginate microspheres via bioelectrospray and microfluidics for infection studies

 

12.15-12.45 -- Oliver Fackler (Heidelberg, Germany) -- Impact of 3D extracellular environments on HIV-1 spread and immune recognition

 

12.45-14.00 -- Posters and trade stands with lunch

 

14.00-15.30 -- Hot topics in ECM -- Chairs: Linda Troeberg and Amir Khan

 

14.00-14.30 -- Anna Blom (Lund, Sweden) -- Immune modulation by extracellular matrix components

 

14.30-14.45 -- Kavitha Kirubendran (London, UK) --A human in vitro model of the extracellular matrix in hepatocellular carcinoma to study how the microenvironment modulates anti-tumour immunity

 

14.45-15.00 -- Samuele Di Carmine (Dundee, UK) -- Human lung fibroblasts exhibit an inflammatory response to IL-33 within an IPF environment

 

15.00-15.30 -- Luisa Martinez-Pomares (Nottingham, UK) -- Innate sensing of the microbial matrix

 

15.30-15.45 -- Prizes and Close of meeting