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							                      IMMUNOCON-2009
                                PROGRAM
                                16th Dec.09
                                   CME
                            09:00AM- 010:00AM
                               Inauguration by
                               Dr. D Nagaraja,
                          Director/Vice Chancellor
                            NIMHANS, Bangalore
CME PRESENTATIONS:
10:00AM-10:30AM ----------------- Dr. S.K.SHANKAR
10:30AM-11:00AM —--------------Dr. SITA NAIK
11:00AM-11:30AM --------- -------Dr. DESIRAZU N RAO
11:30 AM-11:45AM-----------------Tea break
11:45AM-12:15AM------------------ Dr. SATISH DEVADAS
12:15AM-12:45PM------------------ Dr. TARUNA MADAN
12.45PM-01.15PM----------------------Discussion
01:15PM-02:00PM------------------- Lunch break
02:00PM-02:30PM---------------------Dr. PLACID E. D‘SOUZA
02:30PM-03:00PM--------------------Dr. UDAYKUMAR RANGA
03:00PM-03:30PM--------------------Dr. V.D.RAMANATHAN
03:30PM-03:45PM--------------------Tea break
03:45PM-04:15PM-------------------- Dr. S.L. HOTI
04:15PM-04:45PM-------------------- Dr. RAVI KUMAR
04:45PM-05:30PM--------------------Discussion
07:00PM :Inauguration of conference by:
                         Dr. VISHWA MOHAN KATOCH,
                               Director General, I.C.M.R
       Secretary, Ministry of health and Family welfare,Govt. of INDIA
                            WITH KEYNOTE ADDRESS
7:30 PM -----------------------------------Dinner
17TH Dec.
08.00 AM Plenary talk: Prof. N K Mehra, AIIMS, New Delhi

                       Prof. Vijaya S., IISc., Bangalore

09.15AM- 11:15AM Symposia-1 Mycobacterial Immunology (HALL-B)

                            Chair : Dr. C. Jagannath, Dr. P. Salgame

                     Symposia-2 Immunology of parasitic and other bacterial

                             diseases. (HALL-C)

                              Chair : Dr. S. K. Shankar, Dr. K. Prasad

11.15AM -11:30 AM TEA BREAK.

11.30AM-12:45 PM Free papers related to the symposia.

             HALL B: Chair:, Dr. Ramanathan, Dr. Kenneth Shindler

             HALL C: Chair: Dr. Shakila, Dr. N. A. Khan

12:45 PM-01:30 PM    SENIOR SCIENTIST ORATION AWARD

                     Prof. Ajit Sodhi, Banaras Hindu University

01.30 PM-02:00 PM    LUNCH BREAK.

02.00 PM- 04:30 PM Symposia-3 Basic and Molecular Immunology (HALL-B)

                         Chair : Dr. Vijay Singh, Dr. S. L. Hoti

04.30 PM -4:45 PM     TEA BREAK.

4.45 PM -05:45PM      Poster viewing.

05.45 PM -07:00PM Free presentations and presentations from posters.(HALL-B)
                       Chair: Dr. Joshy Jacob, Dr. Sunil Arora
07.00 PM - 07:30 PM   Student group discussion.
07.30 PM                 DINNER

18TH Dec.09

07:30AM -8:00AM BREAK FAST

08:00AM - 09:15 AM PLENARY TALK: Jayasree Das

                                            Shubhada Chiplunkar

09.15 AM – 11:15 AM Symposia-4 Diagnostic and Clinical Immunology
                    HALL-B: Chair: Prof. Sita Naik, Prof. Shaila
                         Symposia-5 Viral Immunology and Cancer Immunology
                    HALL-C: Chair: Dr V. Ravi, Dr. S. N. Madhusudhana
11:15AM - 11:30AM       TEA BREAK

11.30 AM-1:00PM        Poster viewing

01.00 PM – 2:00 PM       LUNCH BREAK.

02.00 PM-04:00 PM        YOUNG SCIENTIST AWARD.

                         Chair: Dr. D.N. Rao.

04.00 PM      TEA BREAK.

04.15- 06:00 PM          Symposia-6 NeuroImmunology (HALL-B)

                       Chair : Dr. Rajani Rani, Dr. Jayasri Das

04:15- 06:00PM          Free papers and presentations from posters. (HALL-C)

                       Chair : Dr. Mustaq Siddiqui, Dr. Devinder Sehgal

06.30 PM-7:30 PM           General Body Meeting.
07.30 PM      Banquet

19TH Dec.09

07:30AM -8:00AM BREAK FAST

PLENARY TALK

08:30-09:15AM      SRINI KAVERI

09.15 AM -11:30    Symposia-7 Vaccines and Immunomodulators.(HALL-B)

                                 Chair: Dr. Madhusudhana, Dr. Anjali Karande

                   Symposia-8 Veterinary Immunology. (HALL-C)

                                 Chair : Dr. Placid E D‘Souza, Dr. K. L. Phaniraja

11.30 AM -11:45 TEA BREAK

11.45 AM -12.45 PM Free papers (HALL-C)

                        Chair: R. B. Narayanan, Dr. Bonnie Dittel

01.00 PM – 2:00 PM AWARD ANNOUNCEMENT AND
VALEDICTORY FUNCTION.
G.P. TALWAR YOUNG SCIENTIST PRESENTATION
GPT.01 Identification of micro RNA involved in IL-10 expression and its
implication in inflammation and asthma.
      Amit Sharma, Manish Kumar, Tanveer Ahmad, Ulaganathan Mabalirajan, Jyotirmoi Aich,
                                                    Anurag Agrawal and Balaram Ghosh

GPT.02 Antimicrobial activity of skin secretion isolated from the indian cricket
frog Fejervarya limnocharis.
                            H.P. Gurushankara, M. Shanthala,P. Vishwaprakash mahadimane,
                                                        Cletus JMD‘Souza and V. Vasudev
GPT.03 Transcriptional regulation of antimicrobial peptide expression at multiple
mucosal sites.
                                    Krishnendu Chakraborty, Pujarini Dutta, Santasabuj Das.

GPT.04 Suppression of effector t cells response by regulatory t cells at the
pathologic site of miliary tuberculosis.
Prabhat K. Sharma , P. K. Saha, Amar Singh, Surendra K. Sharma, Balaram Ghosh and Dipendra
                                                                                  K. Mitra

GPT.05 Molecular mechanism of immunomodulation and adjuvant activity of g1-
4a, a tlr4 agonist from Tinospora cordifolia.
                       Rashmi Raghu, Deepak Sharma, Vineet Kohli and Krishna Balaji Sainis

GPT.06 Altered lipid raft–associated signalling and inhibition of CMI in indian
leprosy patients: an immunotherapeutic approach.
                                              Shashank Gupta and Krishnamurthy Natarajan

GPT.07 Developing defensin (s) as a mucosal adjuvant/mocrobicide with peptide
antigens of HIV.
                              Sudhir Kumar, Raza Ali Naqvi, Neena Khanna and D. N. Rao


GPT.08 Voltage gated calcium channels negatively regulates protective immune
responses to Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
                                                              Teena Mohan and D. N. Rao.
SYMPOSIUM-1: MYCOBACTERIAL IMMUNOLOGY

MI-I.01 Homologous Recombination in Mycobacteria: Protein Structures,
Mechanism and Regulation
                                                                               K. Muniyappa

MI-I.02 Enhancing the efficacy of the BCG vaccine against tuberculosis

                                                                    Chinnaswamy Jagannath
MI-I.03 Study of Host Immunity to Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection
Padmini Salgame, Kamlesh Bhatt, Amanda McBride, Julius Potian, Wasiulla Rafi and Alexandra
                                                                                   Uzelac.

MI-I.04 Dynamics of local Immune response in Human Tuberculosis.
                                                                           Dipendra K Mitra

MI-I.05 Modulation of Inflammatory responses by Pathogenic Mycobacteria
                                                                                 K. N. Balaji

MI-I.06 Can we improve on the BCG vaccine?
                                                                      Vijaya Satchidanandam

MI-I.07 IL-7 and IL-15 promote long-lasting T cell memory against BCG
                                                       Javed N Agrewala and Vijender Singh

MI-O.01 Role of PknE, a Serine Threonine kinase from Mycobacterium
tuberculosis in bacterial survival through modulation of apoptotic events
                                                     P.Dinesh Kumar and Sujatha Narayanan

MI-O.02 Immunohistochemical identification of M leprae with anti-BCG antibody
in Leprous Neuropathy: A comparison with traditional ZN staining
                                                Anu CB, Yasha TC, Shripad A Patil, AB Taly

MI-O.03 Mycobacterium bovis BCG induced expression of cyclooxygenase-2
requires nitric oxide dependent activation of Notch1 signaling
            Kushagra Bansal, Yeddula Narayana, Shripad A. Patil2 and Kithiganahalli N. Balaji
MI-O.04 Diminished baseline and antigen-specific Th1 and Th17 responses in
pediatric tuberculosis
              N. Pavan Kumar, Suresh R, Ganesh R, Janani Shankar, V. Kumaraswami,

                                                Thomas B. Nutmanm and Subash Babu,

MI-O.05 Influence of HLA-DR alleles on the efficacy of BCG vaccination
      Anuradha Bandaru , K.V.Krishna Moorthy, Suman Jain, KJR Murthy and Vijaya Lakshmi
                                                                                 Valluri

MI-O.06 Internalization of Mycobacterium tuberculosis by non-phagocytic pleural
mesothelial cells (Met-5A)
                                                     Supriya Pokkali and Sulochana D. Das

MI-O.07 To Study the role of IL-6 gene polymorphism at position-174 in
Pulmonary Tuberculosis Patients and their Contacts

                                 Lavanya Joshi., Suman Latha G., Vijayalakshmi V., Murthy

MI-O.08 In vitro levels of interferon-γ, il-10 and il-12 to Mycobacterium bovis bcg
r32kda antigen
                        HariSaiPriya V, Sumanlatha G, Hasnain SE, Murthy KJR, Valluri VL

MI-O.09 Chemokine and chemokine receptor expression in HIV-infected
individuals with tuberculosis on ATT and ART.
                  Kaustuv Nayak, Luke Elizabeth Hanna, Sudha Subramanyam, Anbalagan S,

                                                                    Soumya Swaminathan

MI-P.01 PIM2 Induced MMP-9 Expression in Macrophages Requires PI3K and
Notch1 Signaling
         Nisha Kapoor, Kushagra Bansal, Yeddula Narayana, Germain Puzo, Martine Gilleron,
                                                     Kithiganahalli Narayanaswamy Balaji

MI-P.02 Altered lipid raft–associated signalling and inhibition of CMI in Indian
leprosy patients: An immunotherapeutic approach
                               Sudhir Kumar, Raza Ali Naqvi, Neena Khanna and D. N. Rao
MI-P.03 High resolution structural analysis of Biofilm formation in Mycobacteria
                                             V.Kumar, T.Sachan, D.S.Chauhan and V.M.Katoch

MI-P.04 Polymorphism at the -237 position of the IL-12Rβ2 promoter region and
its functional implication related to susceptibility or resistance to tuberculosis
              Vikas Kumar Verma, Megha Jain, Sangeeta Sharma ,D. Behera and H.K. Prasad.

MI-P.05 CD38 expression in HIV-TB coinfection
Sharada Iyer, Surekha Rani H, Anuradha B, Jhunu Audito, KJR.Murthy, Vijaya Lakshmi Valluri

MI-P.06 QuantiFERON-TB Gold In-Tube (QFT-GIT) assay to detect active and
latent tuberculosis infection
  Sambasivan V, Anuradha B, Satya Sudheer P, KJR murthy, Krishnamoorthy KV, Suman Jain,
                                                     Hasan Q and Vijaya Lakshmi Valluri

MI-P.07 Antimicrobial response of KG-1 derived dendritic cells during
Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection
                                                         Rajashree P. and Sulochana D. Das

MI-P.08 Purification and immunological characterization of recombinant
Adenylate kinase of Mycobacterium tuberculosis
                                                            D. Anbarasu and Alamelu Raja

MI-P.09 QuantiFERON-TB Gold in-tube and Tuberculin Skin Test in tuberculosis
contact investigation

                                             Basirudeen S, Paulkumaran P and Alamelu Raja

MI-P.10 Analysis of HLA association among North Indian HIV patients with
Mycobacterium tuberculosis
                                                 B.Saikia, K.Sarkar, S.Mahakur, and A.Wanchu

MI-P.11 A Study on Wound Infection among Leprosy patients.
                                                 G. Dhivya; M. Andrew Pradeep; P. Kavitha

MI-P.12 A study on susceptibility to dental caries among Leprosy patients
                                        M. Manonmani Priyadharshini;M.AndrewPradeep;D.Ramya

MI-P.13 Detection of Immune complexes in the CSF of Tuberculous Meningitis
cases in correlation with antibody Response.
                                                             K.Ponnammal and Shripad A. Patil

MI-P.14 The immune subversion of XDR strains of M.tuberculosis isolated from
Mumbai.
                                                   S. P. Kulkarni , P. Chakraborty, K. B. Sainis

MI-P.15 Functional characterization of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M.tb)
proteins involved in modulating macrophage functions

                                                  G Sreejit, C chaitanya, Sangita Mukhupadyay.

MI-P.16 Differential endocytosis of Mtbhsp60 triggers anti-inflammatory
response in activated macrophages
                                         Nazia Parveen, Shiny Nair, and Sangita Mukhopadhyay

MI-P.17 Immunohistochemical detection of mycobacterial antigen in CNS
Tuberculous pathology using polyclonal anti BCG- antibody.
                               Deepashri Rao, Shripad A. Patil, Anita Mahadevan, S.K.Shankar

MI-P.18 P2x7 gene polymorphisms and risk assessment for pulmonary
Tuberculosis in Asian Indians
                Sambasivan V1, Murthy KJR 1, Hasan Q 1,2 and Vijaya Lakshmi V 1,3


   SYMPOSIUM-2: BASIC AND MOLECULAR IMMUNOLOGY

BI-I.01 Progenitor cells as an effective treatment for acute radiation syndrome.
                                                             Vijay K. Singh, Julie L Christensen.
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BI-I.02Chronic antigenic stimulation reveals distinct outcomes in CD4 and CD8
T cells
          Ashenafi Tilahun, Miluka Gunanaratna,Chella S. David and Govindarajan Rajagopalan
BI-I.03 Docosahexaenoic acid - induced upregulation of Foxp3, CLTA-4, TGF-β
is not correlated with increased TREG cell activity
                                                                        Naim Akhtar Khan.

BI-I.04 Emerging Trends in Immunotoxin
                                       Rama S Verma, Sirisha Potala and Mrudula Mathew.

BI-I.05 Involvement of the both C-terminal domains of Factor H in C3d/C3b
binding is confirmed
     Arnab Bhattacharjee, Markus J. Lehtinen, Tommi Kajander.Adrian Goldman and T. Sakari
                                                                                Jokiranta
BI-I.06 Protective immune responses to novel swine-origin 2009 a (H1N1)
influenza virus.
              Ioanna Skountzou, Dimitrios G Koutsonanos, Richard Compans and Joshy Jacob

BI-I.07 Cytotoxic T cells and the immune response
                                                                            Satish Devadas

BI-I.08 Interaction of the complement system with Mycobacterium tuberculosis
                                                                          V.D.Ramanathan

BI-O.01 The influence of human chorionic gonadotropin on systemic autoimmune
responses.
                                           Alpana Satsangi, Nipun Jayachandran, Rahul Pal

BI-O.02 Allergenicity assessment of osmotin, a pathogenesis-related (PR) family
protein from Nicotiana tabaccum
                               Prerna Sharma, A. K. Singh, B.P.Singh, K.C. Bansal, Naveen Arora

BI-O.03 Abh secretors among blood donors.
                                                                         Sundar P, Patil S,
BI-O.04 Neutralization of inositol polyphosphate-4-phosphatase, type i (INPP4A)
aggravates asthmatic features in experimental allergic mice.
                                             Jyotirmoi Aich, Mabalirajan U and Balaram Ghosh

BI-O.05 Mechanism of asthma pathogenesis: role of Stat3, Socs3 and IL-6
                                        Vani Mishra, Bhushan P.Chaudhari, Bholanath Paul
BI-O.06 Molecular dissection of antibody responses against pneumococcal
surface protein a: evidence for diverse ‗DH-less‘ heavy chain gene usage and
avidity maturation.
                            Soma Rohatgi, Debjani Dutta, Suhail Tahir and Devinder Sehgal

BI-O.07 Identification of microRNA involved in IL-10 expression and its
implication in inflammation and asthma.

                    Amit Sharma, Manish Kumar, Tanveer Ahmad, Ulaganathan Mabalirajan,
                                     Jyotirmoi Aich, Anurag Agrawal and Balaram Ghosh.

BI-O.08 Analysis of molecular mechanism associated with pesticide-induced
immunotoxicity: role of apoptosis and heat shock proteins.
                 Ashok Kumar Tripathi, Tanzeel Ahmed, Rafat S. Ahmed, Basudev Banerjee.

BI-O.09 Dysregulation in Th1/Th2 cytokine ratios in patients with multiple
myeloma.
                    Rehan Khan, Suhasini Joshi, Manoj Sharma, Lalit Kumar, Alpana Sharma
BI-O.10 B cell epitope prediction of alcohol dehydrogenase allergen from
Curvularia lunata
                            Smitha Nair, Neetu Kukreja, Bhanu Pratap Singh, Naveen Arora

BI-O.11 Association between Plasma IgE and Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms
(SNPs) in the β2-adreneoceptor Gene and Control of Asthma.
                     Raj VL, Sabran A, Liam CK, Radhakrishnan AK, Naidu R, Mustafa MR

BI-O.12 Prevalence of vitamin B12 deficiency in patients with Autoimmune
thyroid disorders.
                   Jaya Kumari S, Ganapathy Bantwal, Anitha Devanath Vageesh Ayaar and
                                                                       Sultana Furruqh
BI-P.01 A preliminary study of high sensitivity CRP levels using particle enhanced
turbidimetric immuno assay.
                           Jaya Kumari S Anitha Devanath Sultana Furruqh and Venkatesh


BI-P.02 Activation of map kinases in tributyltin treated rat thymocytes:role of
intracellular calcium.
                                                    Monika Gupta and Shashi Khandelwal
BI-P.03 To unveil the functional domain of Glycodelin A- A pregnancy specific
lectin
                                                             Anjali A. Karande and Devasena .P
BI-P.04 Establishment of age related reference values for serum C-Reactive
Protein (CRP) in the healthy indian population using a turbidimetric assay.
                            Anitha Devanath, T Venkatesh Jaya Kumari S and Anita R Bijoor

BI-P.05 Epitope mapping of a high affinity neutralizing antibody reveals an
epitope adjacent to the defined region of neutralization.
   Ashutosh Tiwari, Anurag Sankhyan, Navin Khanna, Subrata Sinha
BI-P.06 Allergenicity potential of proteins from green gram (Vigna radiata)
                                                                              Sandeep Kumar,

BI-P.07 Stage specific agglutinin in a coleopteran beetle, Oryctes rhinoceros
                                                          M.Jayalakshmi & Sr.M.R.Basil Rose

BI-P.08 Effect of inflammation on the expression of proteins involved in iron
transport.
                       Harish P Janardhan, B S Ramakrishna Debasis Danda and, Molly Jacob

BI-P.09 An approach towards development of a simple method for conjugation of
laccase to antibody and its characterization by ELISA.
                  Swarnadeep Ray, Protik Chowdhury, Nirmalendu Das and Biswadev Bishayi

BI-P.10 Effects of Prenatal/Juvenile exposure of Chlorpyrifos on mouse immune
system.
                                                    R. Singh, A. K. Singh, P. Kumar, B.N.Paul

BI-P.11 Intra and inter person variation of immunity parameters in ahealthy human
population in bangalore, india.
      Upadhyaya, S., Damle, A., Telkar, A., DiasP Bhat, J., Rafi, M., Seetha, R and Banerjee, G


BI-P.12 Specific IgE for diagnosis of allergic disorders.
         Hima Sravanthi .G, Surendaran B.R., Gangadhar RDeepsikha Srivastava, Dr Nagendra
                                                                              Prasad K.V.
BI-P.13 Production of phosphotyrosine phenylsepharose CL-4B conjugated
antigen.
                                                       Devaraju K S, Saraswathi R and Gopi A
BI-P.14 The role of suppressors of cytokine signaling 1 (SOCS1) in glutathione
redox mediated regulation of NF-b/ rel signaling and induction of
proinflammatory molecules in macrophages.
                            Sheikh.Ghousunnissa, Kaiser Alam and Sangita Mukhopadhyay

BI-P.15 Stimulation of γδ t cells by plant derived and bacterial alkylamines.
                                          Nirmala S, G Banerjee, V P Sinkar, S Chiplunkar

BI-P.16 T regulatory cells (CD4+CD25+FOXP3+) function in transplant
recipients with chronic allograft dysfunction.
                                      Sharad K Mittal, R K Sharma, Amit Gupta, Sita Naik

BI-P.17 Toll-like receptor mediated innate immune responses in low birth weight
newborns.
                                                                   Singh, V.V. and Rai, G.

BI-P.18 Generation of molecularly distinct isozyme specific SCFV antibodies
binding to the same epitope of placental alkaline phosphatase.
                               Mukesh Kumar, Imran Khan, Pooja Goswami, Subrata Sinha



SYMPOSIUM-3: IMMUNOLOGY OF PARASITIC FUNGAL AND OTHER
BACTERIAL DISEASES

PB-I.01 Phenotypic and functional profiling of effector CD8 and CD4 T cells
during blood-stage infection of Plasmodium yoelii.
                       Anmol Chandele, Paushali Mukerjee, Virandar Chauhan, Rafi Ahmed.
PB-I.01 Filarial lymphatic pathology is characterized by augmented pro-
inflammatory cytokine production in response to TLR2 and TLR9 ligands
                               Subash Babu, V. Kumaraswami and Thomas B. Nutman

PB-O.01 T-cell receptor Vβ (1-24) gene repertoire expression in peripheral blood
mononuclear cells (PBMCs) of patients with chronic pathology harboring
Wuchereria bancrofti infection
                              .Magapu Solomon Sudhakar, .R.B.Narayanan,Alalasundaram,

                                 .S.V.Chiplunkar, Trupathi Pradhan ,.Shailja Bhattacharya .
PB-O.02 Decreased prevalence of filarial infection among diabetic subjects -
Implications for ―extended hygiene hypothesis‖
                                                                            Aravindhan V.
PB-O.03 Immunotherapy of Leishmaniasis: An adjunct to chemotherapy.
                                                                              Farhat Afrin
PB-O.05 Immune characterisation of cysticercal antigen with refrence to CNS
infection

                                                       Mehak Sharma and Shripad A. Patil,

PB-O.06 Identification of B and T cell epitopes of YscF antigen of Yersinia pestis.
                                Riyasat Ali, Sudhir Kumar, Ajaz Ahmad Bhatt and D.N.Rao.


PB-P.01 Filarial lymphatic pathology is characterized by enhanced vascular and
lymphatic endothelial growth factor production in response to TLR2 and TLR9
ligands
                   Anuradha R, V. Kumaraswami, Thomas B. Nutmanand Subash Babu
PB-P.02 Inhibitory effect of Cystone on uropathogenic E.coli adherence and H2O2
induced toxicity in NRK-52E cells.
                          Vidyashankar S, Mahesh kumar P, Patki P S and Nandakumar K S.
PB-P.03 Antimicrobial activity of skin secretion isolated from the Indian cricket
frog Fejervarya limnocharis
                           H.P. Gurushankara, M. Shanthala, P. Vishwaprakash mahadimane,
                                                        Cletus JMD‘Souza and V. Vasudev

PB-P.04 Molecular characterization of multi drug resistant Klebsiella pneumonia
by random amplified poly morphic DNA.
        Rajeshwari H, Deepti Parashar, Nagaveni S,Ajay Kumar Oli, Kelmani Chandrakanth R

PB-P.05 Widespread emergence of multidrug resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa
in csf samples
         Nagaveni S, Rajeshwari H , Ajay Kumar Oli, S. A. Patil and Kelmani Chandrakanth R
PB-P.06 Analysis of Whole Cell Protein Profiling to Characterize

Enterococcus species by SDS-PAGE
                     Ajay Kumar Oli, Rajeshwari. H, Nagaveni. S, Kelmani. Chandrakanth. R

PB-P.07 Stimulation of murine macrophages with recombinant Leishmania
antigen (rA6) causes intracellular parasite clearance.
                                                              Anuradha and Sunil K. Arora.

PB-P.08 In vitro Model of Leishmania-Macrophage interaction suitable for
screening of Anti-Leishmanial agents.
                                                        Rajendra Kumar and Sunil K. Arora


PB-P.09 Isolation of immunoreactive proteins of Setaria cervi adults by SDS-
polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis

                               Priyanka Priyadarshi, Deep C. Kaushal and Nuzhat A. Kaushal

PB-P.10 Capsular typing of Staphylococcus aureus in different hospitals in
Gulbarga
  Subhaschandra M. Gaddad, Venubabu Thati, Praveenkumar D and Channappa T. Shivannavar


PB-P.11 Immunogenisity of locally isolated capsular type-5 and 8 Staphylococcus
aureus whole cells in rabbits
                   Subhaschandra M. Gaddad, Venubabu Thati and Channappa T. Shivannavar


PB-P.12 Immunological Aspects of Protozoan Parasitic Diseases
                             Amulya Kumar, JyotishmanVeepaschit &Raajeev Singh.


PB-P.13 G3093T (exon 19, Complement receptor 1 gene (CR1)) was found to be
in linkage disequilibrium with non-coding region A to T (introne 27, CR1 gene)
and is prevalent in pockets of Falcipurum malaria transmission in northern India.
 Mayank Madhukar, J.C. Samantaray, Sukla Biswas,P. Aggarwal, Ratanesh K. Seth and Nibhriti
PB-P.14 Antigenic analysis of embryo stage of Setaria cervi, the bovine filarial
parasite
                                    Poonam Singh, Deep C. Kaushal and Nuzhat A. Kaushal
PB-P.15 Chlamydia Induces Caspase Activity and Apoptosis Signaling Pathway
via Cervical Epithelial Cells.
                                 Vikas Vats, Tanvi Agrawal, Sudha Salhan and Aruna Mittal

PB-P.16 Immobilization of C1 inhibitor by nematode Transglutaminase
                                        Chellam Gayathri.S., Pandiaraja.P., Perumal Kaliraj
PB-P.17 Expression of IL-10 superfamily members in filarial lymphatic pathology
             Jovvian George. P, V. Kumaraswami, Thomas B. Nutman and Subash Babu,
PB-P.18 Increased levels of circulating immune complexes and enhanced classical
and MBL complement pathway activation in patent human lymphatic filariasis.
                                  Senbagavalli P, Anuradha, Ramanathan VD, Subash Babu
PB-P.19 Antigen preparation of Mucor and Aspergillus and evaluation of
antibody response in CNS infections.
                                                         Soni R Sankapal, Shripad A.Patil
PB-P.20 Effect of ph and temperature on laccase production by Tramates sps,.

                                               Manigandan.N. M.palaniswamy, Bharathi.S

PB-P.21 Contribution of coagulase and toxic shock syndrome toxin-1 in
Staphylococcus aureus induced septic arthritis in mice: possible therapeutic
protection by chloramphenicol
    Sayantani Majumdar, Argha Manna, Rupanjan Mukhopadhyay, Kallol Dutta, Anirban Basu,
                                               Sunil Kumar Manna and Biswadev Bishayi

PB-P.22 Evaluation of regulatory networks induced by B.malayi recombinant
proteins in different patient population.
                                       Aparnaa Ramanthan, Madhumathi J, Perumal Kaliraj
SYMPOSIUM-4: DIAGNOSTIC AND CLINICAL IMMUNOLOGY

DC-I.01 Dysfunctional dendritic cells- root cause of subdued immune-response in
chronic viral Hepatitis
                                                             Sunil K Arora & Deepa Rana,

DC-I.02 Clinical Immunology of Immunomodulators
                                                                               Pralhad PatkI

DC-I.03 Primary Immune Deficiencies from Bedside to the Bench
                                                                            Sujatha Ramesh

DC-I.04 FUTURE TRENDS IN DIAGNPOSTICS
                                                                                Shama Bhat,

DC-I.05 SLIT in Management of Type I Allergy Disorders
                                                                   Nagendra Prasad.K.V,

DC-I.06 SERODIAGNOSIS OF LEPTOSPIROSIS: Evaluation of two tests done
within 8 days of onset against a Gold Standard of a combination of MAT and
clinical features
                                                                              Kavita Raja,


DC-I.07 Buccal Delivery System - SLIT Films

                                                                                .Paranjothy,
DC-I.08 Highly Characterized Antibodies from Human Protein Atlas and Sigma
Aldrich
                                                                      Sivaram Chintalapati,

DC-O.01 Characterization and Functional studies with Monoclonal Antibody B11
F12 developed against Tumor Associated antigens of Squamous Cell Carcinomas
                                   Atul Anand, M.Patkar, S.G.Dakave and Shubhada V. Chiplunkar
DC-O.02 IL-10 cytokine gene polymorphisms in allergic asthma patients
            Suman Latha G., Hari   Sai Priya V., Lavanya Joshi., Vijayalakshmi V., Murthy K.J.R.

DC-O.03 Comparison of PETIA kit from Siemens with Pureauto S CRP-Latex
(SS-type) kit from Diachi to evaluate C-reactive Protein
                                                         Anitha Devanath, Jaya Kumari, Anita R Bijoor

DC-O.04 Telomerase activity in CD4+ T cells of Parthenium dermatitis patients
                               Vivek Anand, Nasim Akhtar, Rakesh Khatri, K K Verma and Alpana Sharma


DC-O.05 T effector and T regulatory lymphocytes during acute hepatitis E virus
infection

                              Mohd. Mushtaq Husain, Rakesh   Aggarwal, Shahid Jameel, Sita Naik

DC-O.06 Significance of antibody detection in the diagnosis ofcryptococcal
meningitis
                                                           Katyayani S., Arvind N. and Shripad A. Patil.


DC-P.01 Molecular cloning, expression and diagnostic evaluation of rWbL1
protein for the detection of Bancroftian filariasis
                            Siva Prasad. B.V, V.Anantharaman, D.Gajalakshmi, Reddy.M.V.R

DC-P.02 Detection of HRP-2 and pLDH antigen of P.falciparum in malaria
patients by Immunocapture based diagnostic assay.
                                                       Priyanka Verma, Sukla Biswas and Rao D.N

   DC-P.3 Eosinophil Count and Interleukin-5 in Malaysian Asthmatic Patients
                     Raj VL, Sabran A, Liam CK, Radhakrishnan AK, Naidu R, Mustafa MR.




SYMPOSIUM-5: VIRAL IMMUNOLOGY AND CANCER IMMUNOLOGY
VC-I.01 Induction of anti tumor effector functions in gamma delta T lymphocytes
by bisphosphonates.
                                                                          S. V. Chiplunkar
VC-I.02 Japanese encephalitis virus and NF-κb: activation of the canonical NF-κb
pathway and its importance in MHC-I induction
                            Sojan Abraham, Soumen Basak and Ramanathapuram Manjunath
VC- I.03 Relative transmissibility of an r5 clade c s HIV across different mucosae
in Rhesus macaques parallels the relative risks of sexual HIV-1 transmission via
different routes.
  NB Siddappa,A-L Chenine, VG Kramer, G Sciaranghella,RA Rasmussen, M Santosuosso, MC
           Poznansky , RR Amara,C Souder, DC Anderson, JG Else, FJ Novembre, E Strobert,
                                                  SP O'Neil, WE Secor and RM Ruprecht

VC-O.01 Interplay of TNF-α, superoxide anion (SOA) and apoptosis in
HIV/AIDS patients.
  Sandeepan Mukherjee, Sheetal Rai, Sahil Kulkarni, Shraddha Mehta, Arunagiri Subramanian,
                                                        R. A. Deshmukh, Abhay Chowdhary

VC-O.02 Analysis of CD 4 T cell responses of HIV patients under different ART
regimens.
                                     Sumi Mukhopadhyay, Indranil Dhar, Anindita Debnath,
                             Joyabrata Mal, Sonali Das, Bibhuti Saha and Swapna Chaudhuri


VC-O.03 Increased CD8+ T Lymphocytes in HAART non-responders with
immunological failures.
                                       Sukhvinder Singh Jaideep S. Toor and Sunil K. Arora

VC-O.04 Reconstitution of innate immune responses in HIV-1 infected subjects
undergoing antiretroviral treatment (ART).
                                              Anuj Singla, Ajay Wanchu and Sunil K. Arora



VC- O.05 Assessing the significance of exogenous interleukins on natural killer
cell derived cytolytic molecules in HIV-infected individuals.
                           P.V. Ramana Rao, S. Ramanavelan, S. Rajasekaran, Alamelu Raja

VC-O.06 Pathogenic and vaccine strain of Japanese encephalitis viral strain elicit
differential human macrophage / DC effector functions.
                                                       Harini Sooryanarain, Milind M. Gore

VC-O.07 Soluble factors released by activated regulatory T cells suppress natural
killer T cell function in cervical cancer patients.
                            T. Pradhan, J.Patankar,B.Ravikiran, H. Tongaonkar, S.Chiplunkar

VC-O.08 Modulation of targeted cancer therapy by cytokines in tumor
microenvironment.
                                              Shyama Pal, Bhavani Shankar and K.B. Sainis

VC-O.09 Natural killer T cell activation in Hepatitis B virus infection.
                       Anuradha Tripathy, Rumki Das, Mandeep Chadha & Vidya Arankalle

VC-O.10 Role of Tumor Microenvironment on DNA Damage Responses and
Expression of IGF-1/clusterin Axis in Genomic Instability.
                            Bhavani S. Shankar,1 Shyama Pal1, David A. Boothman3 and K.B. Sainis2

VC-P.01 Temporal analysis of early immune responses in patients with Hepatitis
E virus infection.
                                 Rumki Das, Anuradha Tripathy, VA Arankalle & YK Gurav


VC-P.02 Short-term immune response to Hepatitis-C virus in live related renal
transplant recipients.
 Shivali Justa ,Ranjana W. Minz , Mukut Minz, Ashish Sharma,Neelam Pasricha, Shashi Anand
VC-P.03 2,5- Oligoadenylate synthetase2: a novel tumor derived factor involved
in CD3 δ degradation.
             S. Shah, D.Kulkarni, T. Pradhan, D.Chaukar,V.Manivel, K.V.S.Rao, S.Chiplunkar


VC-P.04 Role of ß-2 microglobulin in prognosis of HIV/AIDS

                     V Suresh Gupta, Arunagiri Subramanian, Shraddha Mehta, Sahil Kulkarni
                                 SandeepanMukherjee, R. A.Deshmukh, Abhay Chowdhary


VC-P.05 Role of TNF-α and IL-6 in morbidity and mortality associated with
HIV/AIDS.
                     V Suresh Gupta, Shraddha Mehta, Arunagiri Subramanian, Sahil Kulkarni
                                 SandeepanMukherjee, R. A.Deshmukh, Abhay Chowdhary


VC-P.06 NK cells in recent HIV-1 infection showed down regulation of
activatory receptors.
                      Archana Kulkarni, Madhuri Thakar, Meera Singh and Ramesh Paranjape



SYMPOSIUM-6: NEUROIMMUNOLOGY

NI-I.01Dual Roles for Microglial Cells in Regulating the Progression and
Resolution of CNS Autoimmune Inflammation
                                                                           Bonnie N. Dittel

NI-I.02 Evaluation of Neuroprotective Therapies in Experimental Optic Neuritis
  Kenneth S. Shindler, Mahasweta Dutt, Philomena Tabuena,Elvira Ventura, Jayasri Das Sarma,
                                                                  Abdolmohamad Rostami




NI-I.03 Functional implications of Vitamin D Receptor-HLA DRB1*0301
interaction in Type 1 diabetes
                                 Rajni Rani, Neetu Israni, Avinash Kumar,Ravinder Goswami
NI-O.01 Microglia,macrophage play a major role in mouse hepatitis virus induced
demyelination
            Dhriti Chatterjee, Lawrence C Kenyon, Kenneth S Shindler and Jayasri Das Sarma

NI-O.02 Immunopathogenetic differences between Guillain Barre Syndrome and
Paralytic rabies
              Mahadevan A, Suja MS, Madhusudana SN, Patil S, Satishchandra P, Shankar SK


NI-P.01 Pro-inflammatory phenotype of lean diabetic subjects compared to obese
diabetic subjects- new definition for Asian Indian Diabetic phenotype
                                                  Surendar J., Mohan V. and Aravindhan V.


NI-P.02 Elevated Expression of HSP90α in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
                                                           Rai, R. and Rai, G.

NI-P.03 Association of IFN-γ and TNF-α gene expression with disease activity in
children with Systemic Lupus Erythaematosus (SLE) -a prospective study from
North India.
                                        Rana A, Minz R W, Aggarwal R, Anand S, Singh S.

NI-P.04 Role of Toll-Like Receptors (TLRs) in Immuno-pathogenesis of
Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE)
                                                                 Chauhan, S.K. and Rai, G.

NI-P.05 In-vitro detection of anti achr antibodies secreted by lymphocytes in
myasthenia gravis: A preliminary study
                                                         M. P .jayakishan., shripad A patil.

NI.P.06 Suppression of Experimental Optic Neuritis with Corticosteroids.
    Mahasweta Dutt, Philomela Tabuena, Lawrence C. Kenyon,Elvira Ventura, Abdolmohamad
                                          Rostami, Kenneth S.Shindler, Jayasri Das Sarma.

NI-P.07 Autoantibodies to Heat Shock Protein- 65 (HSP-65kDa) in patients with
Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
              Ashica Sood A, P.Marimuthu ,Vandana Pradhan ,K.Ghosh and Shripad A. Patil
SYMPOSIUM-7: VACCINES AND IMMUNOMODULATORS

IV-I.01 Natural antibodies : more than mere bystanders
                                                                            Srini V Kaveri

IV-I.02 Roles of Ras activation during Interferon-gamma responses and
acetaminophen-induced liver damage.
                                     Banishree Saha, S. Jyothi Prasanna and Dipankar Nandi

IV-I.03 T cell Response to HCV Infection: Key to Vaccine Development
Strategies
                          Krishna K. Murthy, La Shayla D. Morrow and Kaitlin E. Campbell
IV-I.04 Rabies vaccines : current state and new developments
                                                                          S.N.Madhusudana

  IV-I.05Prophylactic Vaccines Against HPV Infection: A Hope for prevention
                             of cervical cancer?
                                                                              Jayshree R S

IV-I.06 The immunomodulatory role of Glycodelin

                                                                         Anjali A Karande



IV-O.01 Molecular aspects of immunoprevention by piperine in cadmium induced
thymic atrophy and splenomegaly .
                                                                       Shashi Khandelwal

IV-O.02 In vivo enhancement of Natural Killer Cell Activity through Tea fortified
with Ayurvedic herbs
                Jyoti Bhat, aparna Damle, Pankaj P Vaishnav, Ruud Albers , Manoj Joshi and

                                                                         Gautam Banerjee,

IV-OI.03 Saved by poisons : Plant toxins in targeted cancer therapy
                                                        Sudarshan Gadadhar and Anjali A Karande
IV-O.04 Immunogenicity of garlic immunomodulatory proteins upon oral
administration in balb/c mice
                                                      Fatima Clement and Y. P. Venkatesh

IV-O.05 Molecular mechanism of immunomodulation and adjuvant activity of g1-
4a, a TLR4 agonist from Tinospora cordifolia.
                     Rashmi Raghu, Deepak Sharma, Vineet Kohli and Krishna Balaji Sainis

IV-O.06 Evaluation of protective immunity induced by rWbGST-BmALT-2 fusion
protein against Brugia malayi infection.

     Anandharaman Veerapathran, Kiran Pote, Munirathinam Gnanasekar, Maryada Venkata
                                   Rami Reddy and Ramaswamy Kalyanasundaram.

IV-P.01 Ant-inflammatory properties of Septilin in lipopolysaccharide activated
monocytes and macrophages.
                Sandeep Varma R, Ashok G, Vidyashankar S, Patki P S and Nandakumar K S
IV-P.02 Regulation of PPAR γ and TNF α by Liv.52 in alcohol treated liver cells.

                Ashok G, Sandeep Varma R, Vidyashanker S, Patki P S and Nandakumar K S

IV-P.03 Presence of immunomodulatory proteins in the medicinal herb, guduchi

(Tinospora cordifolia)
                                         Ivan Aranha, Fatima Clement and Y. P. Venkatesh

IV-P.04 Enhancement of Immunity by Theanine
                                                         Bhat J, Upadhyaya S, Banerjee G

IV-P.05 Biochemical Effect of Curcumin and Embelin on chemical-induced
hepatocarcinogenesis in Wistar rats
                              M.C. Jagadeesh, M. Sreepriya, Geetha Bali, D. Manjulakumari

IV-P.06 Expression Of Immune Molecules On Human Pbmc Upon Treatment
With Extracts Of Pongamia Pinnata Linn.

        M. Manikannan, R. Balamurugan, S. Dinesh, V. Mythili and Elanchezhiyan Manickan.
IV-P.07 Prophylactic and therapeutic potential of Asp f1 epitopes in naïve and
sensitized BALB/c mice

 Neelkamal Chaudhary, Lakshna Mahajan, Taruna Madan, Anil Kumar, Gajendra Pratap Singh
       Raghava, Ashok Shah, Seturam Bandacharya Katti, Wahajul Haq, Puranam Usha Sarma.

IV-P.08 Turbo Methanol Extract inhibits bone resorption through regulation of T
cell function
                          B. Balakrishnan, M. M. Indapa, S. G. Dakawe and S. V. Chiplunkar

IV-P.09 The Mucosal Adjuvant Activity Of Fructans Isolated From Aged Garlic
Extract
                                                   P. M. Chandrashekar and Y. P. Venkatesh

IV-P.10 TLR dependent and independent immune responses to type 1 Sabin and
wild poliovirus
                                         Madhu Chhanda Mohanty and Jagadish M. Deshpan

IV-P.11 Lactobacillus sporogenes: Oral vaccine candidate
                         Sarika Amdekar, Sapna Kushwah, Deepak Dwivedi, Purabi Roy, Vinod Sing

IV-P.12 Glycodelin -A: Modulator of Cytolytic effector T cell activity
                                                         Anjali A. Karande and Chetna Soni



SYMPOSIUM-8: VETERINARY IMMUNOLOGY

   VT-O.01 Evaluation of immune response to recombinant dna vaccine against
   bovine tuberculosis in calves
          Phaniraj.K.L., Shrikrishna Isloor., Naveen Kumar.G.S., Ravikumar.P., and Vasanth.M.Shetty

   VT-O.02 Comparative Evaluation Of Rt-Pcr For Vp3, Vp7, Ns1 And Ns3
   Genes In Detecting Bluetongue Virus In Clinical Specimens.
                                S. Vinay, S.M. Byregowda, Y. Hari Babu, K.M. Purushotham
VT-O.03 Novel toxin-neutralizing nanobodies isolated from Indian camel
phage display library possess unique molecular features
                                          Jangra, Pooja, †Pandey, Neelam and ¶Singh, Ajit

VT-O.04 Immune Response to Persistent Foot and Mouth Disease Virus (Asia
1) Infection in Cattle and Buffaloes

             Mohan.S Maddur , Subodh Kishore , Ashok C Kumar, Suryanarayana V. V. S,
                               Gopalakrishna S, Nem Singh, and Mukund.R Gajendragad

VT-O.05 Identification Of Milk Based Protein Biomarker For The Diagnosis
Of Mastitis
                                                    J.Thanislass, S.Prathibha, P.X.Antony,

                                     S.Venkatesa Peruma1, K.V.Subba Reddy,R. M. Pillai

VT-O.06 Purification Of Bacteriocin Like Substances From Rumen Liquor
Obtained From Slaughtered Goats
S.Barathiraja, J.Thanislass, P.X.Antony, S.Venkatesa Perumal,K.V.SubbaReddy, R. M. Pillai

VT-P.01 Study of Humoral Immune Response against Recombinant-DNA
Vaccine against Bovine Tuberculosis By Interleukin-4 Elisa.
                                               Phaniraj.K., jagadeesh Sanganal.., Jayaramu. G.M ..

VT-P.02 Development of Anti-Methanogen Igy Antibodies And Their Potential
Application
                                                   Yogesh B.J , S.Bharathi and Michael A

						
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