Cytokine Interest Group Symposium
TNF family cytokine biology and signaling
Tuesday April 24, 2012
Lipsett Auditorium
Building 10, NIH-Bethesda
Mike Lenardo, John Ashwell, Richard Siegel and Françoise Meylan are organizing a one-day Cytokine Interest Group symposium on the biology of and signaling by TNF family cytokines and their receptors, on Tuesday, April 24, 2012 in Lipsett Auditorium on the NIH campus. We have five outstanding guest speakers listed below and would like to invite PI's and trainees at the NIH to give talks on their work as well.
Please send abstracts of 500 words or less for consideration for talks to Françoise Meylan (meylanf@mail.nih.gov) by email by Friday February 10th.
Invited speakers:
- John Silke, La Trobe University, Australia. IAP's and inhibitors in TNF-family signaling
- Chuanju Liu, NYU. Progranulin: a novel ligand for TNF receptors
- Francis Chan, U. Mass. Non-apoptotic death pathways mediated by TNF receptors
- Hao Wu, Weill-Cornell Medical School. Structural biology of TNF receptor and NF-kB signaling
- Michael Croft, La Jolla Institute of Allergy and Immunology. Biology of T cell costimulation by TNF family cytokines
Participating vendors:
- Cell Signaling Inc
- EBioscience
- Grace Vick
- Meso-scale Discovery
- Miltenyi Biotec
- Neogen
- Novoprotein Scientific Inc
- Peprotech
- Thermo Scientific Pierce
