Events

The 2009 New England Workshop on Autoimmune Diabetes

Nineteenth New England Regional Workshop on
Autoimmune Diabetes Mellitus

Friday, October 30, 2009 

You are invited to New England's annual informal gathering to review research work in autoimmune diabetes! Participants present one or more posters and join in amicable, off-the-record discussion. Any research germane to autoimmunity, transplantation, tolerance, human T1D, NOD mice, BB rats, stem cells, etc. is welcome.

This year's workshop will again be held at the Marine Biological Laboratories This link goes to an external web site in Woods Hole, MA, under the sponsorship of The University of Massachusetts Medical School, assisted by a grant from the Novo Nordisk  Corporation This link goes to an external web site.

The Workshop will take place the weekend after the Annual New England Immunology Conference This link goes to an external web site.

Tentative Program

Friday PROGRAM 
2-5:30 p.m. Registration & Poster Viewing 
3:30-4:30 p.m.

Lecturer: Michael Brehm, Ph.D.   
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Topic: "Humanized mouse models in autoimmune diabetes research"

4:30-5:30 p.m. 

Lecturer: Kai Wucherpfennig, Ph.D.
Harvard Medical School
Topic: "Unique features of T cell receptor recognition in autoimmunity"

5:30-7:00 p.m. Traditional New England Baked Lobster Dinner
7:00-8:00 p.m. 

Lecturer: Elizabeth Blankenhorn, Ph.D.    
Drexel University College of Medicine
Topic: "A new abundance of T1D genes in the rat"  

8:00-9:00 p.m. 

Lecturer: Diane Mathis, Ph.D.    
Harvard Medical School
Topic: "Control of diabetes progression"

9:00 p.m. Snacks and Poster Prizes
 

Location

Marine Biological Laboratory
Woods Hole, Massachusetts

Click here for Directions.

Registration

To attend, please complete and return a registration form not later thanTuesday, October 14 at 5 p.m. to: Autoimmunity of Diabetes Workshop, Diabetes Division, Attn: Lisa Hubacz, 373 Plantation Street, Suite 218, Worcester, MA, 01605. It may also be faxed to 508-856-4093. Click here PDF document  for a printable copy of the registration form.  

Registration forms can also be obtained by calling the Diabetes Endocrinology Research Center office at the University of Massachusetts Medical School: 508-856-3800 or by sending us email at  lisa.hubacz@umassmed.edu.

Dates for future meetings: Oct. 29, 2010, Oct. 28, 2011