University College, Cork, 7 - 9 September 1999
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Tuesday 7th September
Biochemical Immunology Group Colloquium
Ageing and the Immune System
- Organizers:
- J. Lord (Birmingham)
- D. Kipling (Cardiff)
- Speakers:
- 09.00 D. Kipling (Cardiff)
- Opening Remarks
- 09.10 R. Faragher (Brighton)
- What has cell senescence got to do with ageing?
- 09.50 K. Parkinson (Glasgow)
- Replicative senescence as a barrier to human cancer development: squamous cancer as a model system
- 10.30 Coffee
- 11.00 Colworth Medal Lecture
- 12.00 S. Cook (Cambridge)
- 11.00 Colworth Medal Lecture
- Regulation of cell-cycle re-entry by growth, survival and stress pathways
- 12.40 R. Miller (Ann Arbor)
- Immunosenescence - primer and prospectus
- 13.20 Lunch
- 14.20 U. Martens (Freiburg)
- Telomere dynamics in cells of the immune system
- 15.00 R. Aspinall (London)
- The effect of age on thymic function
- 15.40 A. Akbar (London)
- Regulation of telomere length during expansion of na�ve and effector T cells in humans
- 16.20 J. Lord (Birmingham)
- Concluding remarks
- 16.30 Poster Session
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