Infectious diseases and Immunology
Thursday 22 January 2009
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Group Willem van Eden (Immunology)
1. MHC-independent T cell immunity and mycobacterial infection
2. Natural killer cells responses to influenza virus in the chicken
3. Modulation of dendritic cells and initiation of cell-mediated immune responses in the chicken
4. The role of antigen-specific regulatory T cells in rheumatoid arthritis
Group Jos van Putten (Infection Biology)
5. Bacterial gene regulation
6. Bacterial virulence and immune evasion strategies
7. Innate immunity against bacterial pathogens
8. Vaccine development
Group P.J.M. Rottier (Virology)
9. Molecular biology, pathogenesis and epidemiology of positive-stranded RNA viruses
10. Molecular Mechanism of Virus Cell Entry
Group Henk Haagsman (Molecular Host Defence)
11. Role of collectins in chicken innate immunity
12. Development of a new class of peptide antibiotics based on natural chicken host defence peptides
13. Modifying the anti-influenza A virus activity of collectins using recombinant protein technology
Group Alice Sijts
14. Role of viral protein splicing in immunity to infections with respiratory viruses
15. Role of a mast cell secreted cytokine in local immune suppression
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