Baltic Summerschool - Lund 2007 - General Information

INFLAMMATION: A Key to Common Complex Diseases

Organized by the Faculty Members of the Baltic Summer School,
coordinator Prof Rikard Holmdahl and course-leader Dr Bo Nilson.

Background

Place and time
02.09. - 13.09.2007 Theoretical Course University of Lund, Sweden.
17.09. - 21.09.2007 Laboratory Course Universities of Lund, Kiel and Copenhagen.

Theoretical Course, 2-13 September 2007, University of Lund, Lund, Sweden

Worldwide experts will present the current knowledge within the following fields:

Evolution and ontogeny of the inflammatory response
The inflammatory syndrome in man
Animal models for human inflammatory diseases
Genetic approaches on human inflammatory diseases
Mimicking human diseases using genetic approaches on animals
Innate immunity
Adaptive immunity
Inflammatory effector mechanisms
Prediction and monitoring
New preventive and therapeutic treatment strategies and targets

The Honorary Lecture will be given by Prof. Shimon Sakaguchi on Regulatory T cells. Invited speakers will participate in panel discussions. Course participants are expected to present posters on their work.

Programme Theoretical Course

Laboratory Course, 17- 21 September 2007, Universities of Lund, Kiel and Copenhagen

20 of the young scientists participating in the theoretical course (which have been selected for a BSS 2007-stipend) will also have the opportunity to train in well-established research laboratories. The participants will join on-going research projects using state-of-the-art techniques ranging from genetic analysis of arthritis and multiple sclerosis models, detection of autoantigens and complement functions, T and B cell function in vitro and epitopes in inflammation, signal transduction in T cells, cytokine receptors and cytokine signaling in inflammation, function and signalling of intracellular pathogen receptors, characterisation of antimicrobial peptides and host parasite interactions.

Programme Laboratory Course

Baltic Summer School Stipends

The Baltic Summer School is supported by the EU under the Marie Curie Program which has a special focus on young scientists with research experience at the late phase of their PhD studies as well as at the medical specialist or post-doc levels (or an equivalent academic training). For such researchers participation fee will be taken over by EU as well as free accommodation. Stipends to support travel are available under the program. They are granted on an individual basis upon application, taking into account the cheapest travel connections. A maximum of 75 BSS 2007-stipends will be offered for the theoretical course and 20 BLC 2007-stipends will be offered for the laboratory course.

Application deadline

Application deadline to participate in the courses and for receiving a stipend is Sunday, April 22, 2007. The theoretical course will also be open for a number of participants that do not receive a BSS-stipend. Notice of acceptance of applications by Tuesday, May 15, 2007. PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU RECEIVE AN ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF RECEIPT OF APPLICATION.
Online-Application

Participation fee

Theoretical Course 250 Euro.

Programme and application details at:

www.balticsummerschool.net or by contacting the Baltic Summer School office:
Tonja Soós, Department of Physiology,
bss@balticsummerschool.net,
University of Kiel,
Olshausenstraße 40,
24098 Kiel, Germany