E-Board No. 50

April 2007

Meeting Announcement

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International Society of Developmental and Comparative Immunology (ISDCI) Symposium as part of the American Association of Immunologists Meeting, Miami, FL 18-22 May 2007

Symposium Title: Evolution of Antigen Recognition from Studies of Insects and Non-mammalian vertebrates; The Bill Clem Memorial Symposium

Sunday 20 May, 12:30 PM, Miami Beach Convention Center, Room A 104/105

Speakers:
1) Norman Miller
Department of Microbiology
University of Mississippi Medical Center (Jackson, MS)

Title: Function of IgD in fish


2) Oriol Sunyer
Dept. of Pathobiology
University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine (Philadelphia, PA)

Title: Phagocytic B cells exposed


3) Ellen Hsu
Dept. of Physiology and Pharmacology
SUNY Health Science Center at Brooklyn, NY

Title: Immunoglobulin heavy chain switch in sharks


4) Dietmar Schmucker
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (Boston, MA)

Title: Hypervariable Ig-receptors in arthropod immunity


Chair: Martin Flajnik
Dept. of Microbiology and Immunology
University of Maryland at Baltimore

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