ESID Prague Spring Meeting 2008 – programme:

Monday morning , May 19: optional programme - UniversityHospital Motol
10am-10.30amRegistration

10.30am-10.45amOpening welcome speech

10.45am-11.15amPresentation of sponsors

11.15am-11.45amOptional visit of departments - Institute of Immunology, laboratory
settings, Department of Pediatrics, newly opened facilities, transplantation unit

12am-12.30pmTransportation to Olympus, official venue site

Monday afternoon, May 19: scientific programme - Olympus

12.30pm-1.30pmRegistration, lunch in Olympus, official venue site

1.30pm-3pmManagement of PIDs

Andrew Cant (invited speaker):BMT in PIDs, cord blood transplants (40 min).

Peter Čižnár: BMT in SCID patients in Slovakia (10 min).

Renata Formánková: Stem Cell Transplantation for Chronic Granulomatous Disease in Czech Republic – First Experience (10 min).

Svetlana Shchebet: Development of immunological and genetic diagnostic in patients with primary immunodeficiency in Belarus (15min).

Radana Zachová: Patiens with primary immunodeficiencies in Prague (5 min).

Vilma Mulaosmanovic: The situation in PID in Bosnia and Herzegovina (5 min).

Mariela Milla Pimentel: The situation in PID in Lima, Peru (5 min).

3.15pm-4.30pmT cells and severe immunodeficiences

Graham Davies (invited speaker): Di George syndrome (45min).

Olesya Shvets: Revealing Children with Di George syndrome (15min).

Anna Šedivá: T-reg in patients with Di George syndrome (10min).
Tuesday morning, May 20:
9am-10.30amB cells, other immunodeficiences

Alison Jones (invited speaker): Immunoglobulin replacement therapy in PIDs (40min).

Jiří Litzman: Mannose-binding lectin (MBL) variants in CVID (15min).

Christian Forster: Calcium signaling in B and T lymphocytes of patients with CVID (15min).

Lucie Grodecká, Hana Grombiříková, Jiří Litzman, Tomáš Freiberger: C1 inhibitor gene promoter mutations: potential role in hereditary angioedema development (15min).

10.30am10.45amCoffee Break

10.45am-12amB cells, other immunodeficiences

Tomáš Freiberger: Spectrum of the BTK gene mutations inCzech XLA patiens (10 min).

Baerbel Keller: CD21low B cells – an activated B cell population exposed to type I interferon (15min)

Zita Trávníčková: Functional testing of antibody production on the B cell level (10 min).

Vojtěch Thon: The European study of distinct clinical phenotypes of Common Variable Immunodeficiency Disorders (15 min).

12am-1pmLunch

1pm-3pmInnate immunity and regulatory defects

Eleonora Gambinieri (ESID Juniors): IPEX – genotype/phenotype correlation, hints for the diagnosis and overview on therapeutic approaches (45min)

Marco Gattorno: Diagnosis and Management of Autoinflammatory Diseases in Childhood (45min).

Andrea Poloučková: Early onset sarcoidosis – case report (10 min).

Nadine Voelxen: Defective activation and signaling of B cells in persistent polyclonal B cell lymphocytosis (PPBL) (10min)

Jeannet Botros: Pattern of Chediak Higashi Syndrome in Egyptian Children: A variant with Hyperpigmentation of the skin and a subtle clinical course (10min)

3pm-3.15pm Coffee Break

3.15pm-4.30pmCase reports and Varia

Mariela Milla Pimentel: Atopic Dermatitis vs Hyper IgE syndrome (15 min).

Filomeen Haerynck: Disseminated Mycobacterium avium infection in a patient with a novel mutation in the interleukin 12RB1 chain (20min)

Hana Kayserová.: Ourexperiences with the interferon-gama treatment in patients with Chronic granulomatous disease (10min)

Pařízková, Rozsíval: A boy with chronic EBV disease and hypogammaglobulinaemia - suspected XLP-ID disease (10 min).

Aleš Janda: Intractable colitis with immunodeficiency of unknown cause in an infant (15min)