SBI 2010 by Claire Santos

Post de Claire Santos

The XXXV Congress of the Brazilian Society for Immunology (Imuno2010 or ImunoTchê) was performed in Porto Alegre, from November 3^th to 6^th, 2010. The meeting´s program contemplated thematic sessions, oral presentations and poster sessions, and had a special attention to viral immunity. 

The most interesting conferences, for me, were:

1-Philippa Marrack from National Jewish Health, Denver,USA. She made the opening conference and talked about Sex and B cell. For her, the autoimmunity is controlled both by the environment and by genetic factors. She showed that the gender plays a profound role in the incidence of autoimmune diseases. 

2- Dario Zamboni from USP, Brazil participated in the session on “Immunity against intracellular bacteria” and talked about Inflammasome Activation in Response to Bacterial Infection. He described a novel pathway for iNOS activation dependent on caspase-1, which cooperate for the control of infection.

3-Sergio Lira from Mont Sinai, USA. He presented a conference about Viruses, inflammation and cancer. In this conference he showed that CMV infection leads to expression of US28, a constitutively active chemokine receptor, which has the ability to induce the development of cancer in transgenic mice.

In brief, the meeting had excellent scientific sessions and I had the opportunity to present, in oral presentation, my work Evaluation of CD8⁺ T cells in Localized Cutaneous Leishmaniasis patients, and I received good comments.