Preliminary Scientific Programme
08.30 – 10.15
Company
Sponsored Symposium – Phadia - Complexity of
Allergy Immune Responses: Information for Diagnosis
and Prognosis
Room: Hall B
Chairperson:
Hugh Sampson, United States
Phenotyping of allergy patients using antibodies
and cytokines
Patrick Holt, Australia
Immune responses in children: Too much and
too little of allergen exposure
Thomas Platts-Mills, United States
Asthma, rhinitis and eczema: What can be learnt
from IgE and IgG antibodies?
Adnan Custovic, United Kindom
Advances with resolving the IgE antibody response
when prescribing ImmunoTherapy
Rudolf Valenta, Austria
Main
Symposium - Occupational versus Non-Occupational Asthma
Room: Hall D
Chairpersons:
Santiago Quirce, Spain
Piero Maestrelli, Italy
Occupational asthma as a model of the inception
and progression of asthma
Andre Cartier, Canada
Similarities between IgE independent occupational
asthma and non-atopic asthma
Christina Mapp, Italy
The relationship between bronchoconstriction,
airway hyperresponsiveness and airway inflammation in occupational and
non-occupational asthma
Piero Maestrelli, Italy
Can asthma be prevented or cured by avoiding
exposure to the sensitising agent? Lessons from occupational asthma
Anthony Newman Taylor, United Kingodm
Meet the
Expert
7: Food Intolerance
Stefan Bischoff, Germany
Room: C246
8: The Different Faces of Histamine
Reinhard Jarisch, Austria
Room: A353
9: What You Should Know about Allergy in Athletes
Sergio Bonini, Italy
Room: A355
10. What can be behind chronic cough?
Todor Popov, Bulgaria
Room: A441
11. How early is Early Allergen Exposure?
Room: B552
Early exposure to moulds and the development of sensitisation
Mona Kidon, Israel
Early exposure to pollen and the development
of allergic disease
Carmi Geller-Bernstein, Israel
Practical
course on Specific Immunotherapy
Room: Hall L
Chairpersons:
Bodo Niggeman, Germany
Philippe Eigenmann, Switzerland
Anthony Frew, United Kingdom
Indications, Contraindications, Side effects
Philippe Eigenmann, Switzerland
Practical aspects, Injection technique
Bodo Niggeman, Germany
Cases and Discussion
Bodo Niggeman, Germany, Philippe Eigenmann, Switzerland, Anthony Frew,
United Kingdom
Oral Abstract
Session - C1 Inhibitior Deficiency
Room: Hall M
Chairpersons:
Peter Schmidt-Grendelmeier, Switzerland
Carsten Bindslev-Jensen, Denmark
Oral Abstract
Session - Insect Venom Hypersensitivity II
Room: Hall N
Chairpersons:
Beatrice Bilo, Italy
Ulrich Müller, Switzerland
Introductory lecture: Diagnosis of insect venom
allergy: guidelines for clinical practice from the EAACI Interest Group
Beatrice Bilo, Italy
Oral Abstract
Session - Role of Nutritional Factors on the Development
of Allergy
Room: Hall O
Chairpersons:
Susanne Halkan, Denmark
Eva Maria Varga, Austria
10.30-12.15
Plenary
Session 3 - Different Target Organs of a Systemic Disease
Room: Hall F
Chairpersons:
Barry Kay, United Kingdom
Johannes Ring, Germany
The nose: Site for allergic inflammation and
control of disease
Stephen Durham, United Kingdom
Acute and chronic allergic inflammation in
the lung
Mark Larché, United Kingdom
The skin: A window into systemic allergy?
Thomas Bieber, Germany
The gut: Site for sensitisation and tolerance
induction
Stephan Bischoff, Germany
12.15 – 13.30
Lunch/Poster
Session
Hall X & Y
Posters 926 - 1623 and 1690 - 1713 in the Poster Exhibition will be discussed during the lunch hour. All delegates attending the Poster Exhibition will receive a sandwich lunch.
12.15 – 13.30
PhARF Award
- New Insights into Mechanisms and Management
of Allergic Diseases
Room: Hall E1
Chairperson: Anthony Frew
President of EAACI and Member of PhARF Scientific Committee
Paul O’Byrne, United Kingdom, Chairman of PhARF Scientific Committee,
will
give the background of PhARF
The Award Winner, Barbara Bohle, Austria will present her research “The impact of pollen-related food allergens on pollen allergy”
Lunch will be served (estimated nr of participants 150) in connection to the Ceremony.
13.30 – 15.15
Company
Sponsored Symposium - GlaxoSmithKline - Meeting the Needs
of Patients with Nasal Allergy - How can we do
better?
Room: Hall B
Chairperson:
Glenis Scadding, United Kingdom
100 years of allergy – evolution and
revolution
Jean Bousquet, France
What do our patients deserve?
Michael Schatz, United States
Meeting the needs of patients with nasal allergy
- better drugs with better delivery
Jan Lötvall, Sweden
Meeting patients’ needs – the next
major step in the evolution of allergic rhinitis therapy
Robert Nathan, United States
Questions and discussion
Summary and close
Glenis Scadding, United Kingdom
Main Symposium
- Asthma: Phenotypes, Mechanisms and Treatment
Room: Hall F
Chairperson:
Paul O’Byrne, Canada
Klaus Rabe, The Netherlands
Asthma: a collection of different diseases?
Klaus Rabe, The Netherlands
Cellular and molecular mechanisms of asthma
Andrew Wardlaw, United Kingdom
Pharmacologic intervention to reduce the risk
of progression of asthma
Paul O’Byrne, Canada
Non-pharmacologic approaches to reduce the
risk of progression to asthma
Lars Jacobsen, Denmark
Main
Symposium - T-Regulatory Cells in Allergy and Health
Room: Hall D
Chairpersons:
Mübeccel Akdis, Switzerland
Ursula Wiedermann-Schmidt, Austria
Dendritic cells in the induction of peripheral
tolerance
Martien Kapsenberg, The Netherlands
Mechanisms of mucosal tolerance
Ursula Wiedermann-Schmidt, Austria
Rapid generation and life span of human T
regulatory cells
Arne Akbar, United Kingdom
Regulation of allergen specific IgE, IgG and
IgA by human T regulatory cells
Mübeccel Akdis, Switzerland
Workshop
- Engineering Allergy Vaccines
Room: Hall G
Chairpersons:
Paolo Colombo, Italy
Rudolf Valenta, Austria
Approaches towards engineered allergy vaccines
Oliver Cromwell, Germany
Engineering vaccines for Parietaria allergy
Paolo Colombo, Italy
Allergen-derived B cell epitopes for allergy
vaccination
Margarete Focke-Tejkl, Austria
Mechanisms underlying immunotherapy with genetically
modified allergens
Verena Niederberger, Austria
Workshop
- Allergic Manifestations in the Gut
Room: Hall H
Chairpersons:
Montserrat Fernandez-Rivas, Spain
Denise-Anne Moneret-Vautrin, France
Food challenges revisited, are they still useful?
Philippe Eigenmann, Switzerland
Sensitisation to aero-allergens and food allergy
Barbara Ballmer-Weber, Switzerland
OAS in the North, anaphylaxis in the South
Montserrat Fernandez-Rivas, Spain
Gastrointestinal food allergy in adults: The
challenge of diagnosis
Denise-Anne Moneret-Vautrin, France
Workshop
- News from the Eosinophil
Room: Hall I
Chairperson:
Monique Capron, France
Hirohisa Saito, Japan
Eosinophils: from allergy to host defense
Monique Capron, France
Eosinophils in asthma
Barry Kay, United Kingdom
Gene expression in eosinophils
Hirohisa Saito, Japan
Eosinophil esophagitis
Hans-Uwe Simon, Germany
Workshop
- Mucosal Immunity: From Allergy to Celiac Disease
Room: Hall K
Chairpersons:
Per Brandtzaeg, Norway
Helena Tlaskalova, Czech Republic
The mucosal immune system
Per Brandtzaeg, Norway
Allergen presentation through the gut
Erika Jensen-Jarolim, Austria
The role of intestinal microflora in allergy
Helena Tlaskalova, Czech Republic
Celiac disease as autoimmune disease
Ludvig Sollid, Norway
Workshop
- Clinical Immunology and Autoimmunity
Room: Hall C
Chairpersons:
Yehuda Shoenfeld, Israel
Michael Hertl, Germany
New developments in autoimmunity
Yehuda Shoenfeld, Israel
Pemphigus vulgaris - paradigms of autoimmune
skin diseases
Michael Hertl, Germany
Autoimmune mechanism in artherosclerosis
Georg Wick, Austria
Biologicals in the treatment of autoimmune
disease
Josef Smolen, Austria
Oral Abstract
Session - Allergens: Structure and Immune Recognition
Room: Hall N
Chairpersons:
Susanne Vrtala, Austria
Stefan Vieths, Germany
Oral Abstract
Session - Food Allergy and Quality of life in Allergic Children
Room: Hall O
Charipersons:
Arne Höst, Denmark
Thomas Keil, Germany
Introductory lecture: Managing pediatric allergies
in the community
Arne Höst, Denmark
15.30 – 17.15
Main
Symposium - Threshold Levels for Allergenicity in Food Allergy:
How Much is Too Much?
Room: Hall C
Chairpersons:
Karin Hoffmann-Sommergruber, Austria
Hugh Sampson, United States
The clinicians view about threshold levels
Zsolt Szepfalusi, Austria
Detection and relevance of hidden allergens
Karin Hoffmann-Sommergruber, Austria
Clinical and individual importance of tresholds
Hugh Sampson, United States
Scientific studies for exemption from food
labeling
Susan Hefle, United States
Main
Symposium - Standards for Practical-Allergen-Specific Immunotherapy
Room: Hall F
Chairpersons:
Walter Canonica, Italy
Stephen Durham, United Kingdom
Requirement for treatment with immunotherapy
Friedrich Horak, Germany
Subcutaneous immunotherapy in adults: standards
for a quality practise
Hans-Jørgen Malling, Denmark
Non-injective immunotherapy in adults: standards
for a quality practise
Emilio Alvarez-Cuesta, Spain
Immunotherapy in pediatrics: standards for
a quality practise
Erkka Valovirta, Finland
Main
Symposium - The Cellular Orchestra in Atopic Dermatitis
Room: Hall D
Chairpersons:
Conrad Hauser, Switzerland
Thomas Bieber, Germany
The relevance of inflammatory dendritic epidermal
cells (IDEC)
Andreas Wollenberg, Germany
T cells in delayed reactions
Thomas Werfel, Germany
Leukocytes in eczema
Conrad Hauser, Switzerland
Clinical lessons to be learned
Kristina Turjanmaa, Finland
Main Symposium
- Immunologic Evaluation of Occupational Asthma
Room: Hall E2
Chairpersons:
Carlos Baena-Cagnani, Argentina
Pierluigi Paggiaro, Italy
Specific antibodies as predictive/prognostic
factors
Monika Raulf-Heimsoth, Germany
Serologic markers of occupational sensitisation
to chemicals
David Bernstein, United States
Induced sputum in the evaluation of occupational
asthma
Santiago Quirce, Spain
Non-invasive markers from the airways: exhaled
gases and breath condensate
Pierluigi Paggiaro, Italy
Workshop
- Allergy Diagnosis in the Laboratory: New Era or new Errors?
Room: Hall G
Chairpersons:
Steven Stapel, The Netherlands TILLAGD
Jörg Kleine-Tebbe, Germany
Clinical value of basophil-based cellular tests:
opportunities and limitations
Jörg Kleine-Tebbe, Germany
IgG antibody testing in allergy, sense and
non-sense
Steven Stapel, The Netherlands
Advances of high-through put microchip technology
in allergy diagnosis
Jens Malte Baron, Germany
The clinical relevance of componentresolved
diagnosis
Peter Schmid-Grendelmeier, Switzerland
Workshop
- Beyond Hygiene
Room: Hall H
Chairperson:
Erika von Mutius, Germany
Josef Riedler, Austria
Microbes-friends or foes
Charlotte Braun-Fahrländer, Switzerland
Modulation of immune responses by environmental
exposure to microbes:
Th1, Th2, and beyond
Roger Lauener, Switzerland
Phenotypic plasticity in human disease
Waltraud Eder, Germany
Animal models for asthma
Albrecht Bufe, Germany
GA2LEN Symposium:
Does Rhinitis Lead to Asthma? GA²LEN in action
Room: Hall B
Chairpersons:
Rudolf Valenta, Austria
Paul van Cauwenberge, Belgium
The epidemiology of airway allergic diseases:
from rhinitis to asthma
Deborah Jarvis, Belgium - WP Gender
Do viruses play a role in rhinitis and asthma
exacerbations?
Nikos Papadopoulos, Greece - WP Virus Exacerbations
Inflammation in the nose - inflammation in
the lung: where’s the link?
Kees van Drunen, The Netherlands - WP IgE sensitization and allergic diseases
Remodelling: similarities and differences between
occurrence in the nose and in the lungs
Sven-Erik Dahlen, Sweden - WP Airway remodelling
Revising guidelines for “Early Diagnosis,
Early Treatment”, ARIA Update
Jean Bousquet, France - WP Dissemination to scientists and healthcare
professionals
Pro &
Con: Genes and environment in the development of allergic disease
Chairpersons:
Patrick Holt, Australia
Arne Høst, Denmark
Pro: Hygiene and environment influences the
development of allergic diseases
Harald Renz, Denmark
Con: Genetic polymorphisms are decisive in
the development of allergic diseases
Lanny Rosenwasser, United States
Oral Abstract
Session - Allergic and Non-allergic Drug Hypersensitivity
Room: Hall N
Chairpersons:
Werner Pichler, Switzerland
Marek Kowalski, Poland
Introductory lecture: The challenge of understanding
drug hypersensitivity pathogenic mechanisms
Werner Pichler, Switzerland
17.30 – 19.15
Workshop
- Structural Biology of Allergens
Room: Hall G
Chairpersons:
Heimo Breiteneder, Austria
Zora Markovic-Housley, Switzerland
The impact of structural biology on allergen
classification
Fatima Ferreira, Austria
Structure and cross-reactivity
Walter Keller, Austria
The structural biology of Bet v 1 homologous
allergens
Zora Markovic-Housley, Switzerland
The structural biology of house dust mite
allergens
Michael Spangfort, Denmark
Workshop
– DNA Vaccines
Room: Hall I
Chairperson:
Angelika Reske-Kunz, Germany
Josef Thalhammer, Austria
Novel safety-optimised and low dose gene vaccines
for the treatment of Type I allergy
Josef Thalhammer, Austria
Polynucleotides as danger signals
Klaus Heeg, Germany
Replicase-based DNA vaccines: immunogenicity
triggered via viral mimicry and apoptosis
Wolfgang Leitner, United States
Gene gun immunisation for the treatment of
allergic disease - a paradox?
Angelika Reske-Kunz, Germany
Year in
Review - Highlights in Preclinical Allergy II
Room: Hall H
Chairpersons:
Mike Taussig, United Kingdom
Massimo Triggiani, Italy
Allergen molecules
Reto Crameri, Switzerland
Innate Immunity
Thomas Decker, Austria
Basophils and mast cells
Massimo Triggiani, Italy
Gene and protein microarrays in allergy
Mike Taussig, United Kingdom
Oral Abstract
Session - Asthma Pathogenesis - Insights from Animals
Room: Hall K
Chairpersons:
Michelle Epstein, Austria
Isil Barlan, Turkey
Introductory lecture: Modeling asthma in mice
Michelle Epstein, Austria
Oral Abstract
Session - Health and Social Factors in Pediatric Asthma
Room: Hall D
Chairpersons:
Eva Maria Varga, Austria
Andea von Berg, Germany
Introductory lecture: What is the optimal "approach"
to a child with asthma?
Eva Maria Varga, Austria
Oral Abstract
Session - Occupational Aero-Allergens
Room: Hall L
Chairpersons:
Santiago Quirce, Spain
Tamar Kinaciyan, Austria
Oral Abstract
Session - Immunotherapy: Perspectives from the Basic Research
Room: Hall M
Chairpersons:
Ursula Wiedermann-Schmidt, Austria
Gabrielle Pauli, France
Oral Abstract
Session - Rhinitis-Natural History and Links with Asthma
Room: Hall N
Chairpersons:
Gert-Jan Braunstahl, The Netherlands
Glenis Scadding, United Kingdom
Introductory lecture: United Airways
Gert-Jan Braunstahl, The Netherlands
Oral Abstract
Session - Mast Cell Biology
Room: Hall O
Chairpersons:
Dean Metcalfe, United States
Peter Valent, Austria
Introductory lecture: Why do we have mast
cells?
Dean Metcalfe, United States