EuroSciCon have finalised the agenda for their 'Analysing the Phenotype and Function of regulatory T cells' meeting on March 7th 2008. Please note that this event is restricted to 66 participants so we recommend booking early to avoid disappointment.

The line-up includes:

Introduction by the Chair
Dr Catherine Derry, Science Communicator

Human Regulatory T cells- generation and maintenance
Dr Milica Vukmanovic-Stejic, UCL, UK

Targeting regulatory T cells in patients with rheumatoid arthritis Professor Michael Ehrenstein, University College London, UK London

The role of regulatory T cells in acute Dengue infection
Dr Kerstin Luhn, University of Oxford UK

How Treg suppression is overcome during onset of spontaneous diabetes?
Dr Lucy Walker, Institute of Biomedical Research, University of Birmingham, UK

Interactions between CD4+CD25+ regulatory T cells and monocytes/macrophages: implications for the immune response
Dr Leonie Taams, King's College London, UK

FOXP3+ regulatory T cells as biomarkers in human malignancies
Dr Alison H. Banham, University of Oxford, UK

IL-10 and regulatory T cells in allergy and asthma
Dr Catherine Hawrylowicz, King's College London

The Impact of Tregs on Immune Responses to Tumours
Dr Awen Gallimore, Cardiff University, UK

To book, please visit http://www.regonline.com/tcells08. The deadline for early registration is January 20th 2008.

There is still time to submit an abstract. Those accepted for poster and oral presentations will also be published in the proceedings. Three will be a prize for the best poster.

Abstract guidelines can be found at http://www.euroscicon.com/absguidlines.html