IMMUNOCON-2009PROGRAM16th Dec.09

CME09:00AM- 010:00AM

Inauguration by

Dr. D Nagaraja,

Director/Vice Chancellor

NIMHANS, BangaloreCME PRESENTATIONS:10:00AM-10:30AM ----------------- Dr. S.K.SHANKAR10:30AM-11:00AM —--------------Dr. SITA NAIK11:00AM-11:30AM --------- -------Dr. DESIRAZU N RAO11:30 AM-11:45AM-----------------Tea break11:45AM-12:15AM------------------ Dr. SATISH DEVADAS12:15AM-12:45PM------------------ Dr. TARUNA MADAN12.45PM-01.15PM----------------------Discussion01:15PM-02:00PM------------------- Lunch break02:00PM-02:30PM---------------------Dr. PLACID E. D’SOUZA02:30PM-03:00PM--------------------Dr. UDAYKUMAR RANGA03:00PM-03:30PM--------------------Dr. V.D.RAMANATHAN03:30PM-03:45PM--------------------Tea break03:45PM-04:15PM-------------------- Dr. S.L. HOTI04:15PM-04:45PM-------------------- Dr. RAVI KUMAR04:45PM-05:30PM--------------------Discussion07:00PM :Inauguration of conference by:

Dr. VISHWA MOHAN KATOCH,Director General, I.C.M.R

Secretary, Ministry of health and Family welfare,Govt. of INDIAWITH 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 Arora07.00 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.

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 ImmunotoxinRama 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-6Vani 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 rhinocerosM.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 ζ 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 KulkarniSandeepanMukherjee, 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 KulkarniSandeepanMukherjee, 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 NeuritisKenneth 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 ErythematosusRai, 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