9.00 - 9.15 Welcome: Carmen Gianfrani and Raffaele Coppola (Director of ISA-CNR)

Session I Chairpersons: Mauro Rossi and Giuseppe Mazzarella

9.15 - 9.45 Maria Rescigno (Milan)

Intestinal microbiota: promoting oral tolerance or inflammation?

9.45 -10.15 Ludvig Sollid (Oslo)

Can mucosa induced T cell responses be assayed in the peripheral blood?

10.15 - 11.00 Selected presentations

11.00 - 11.30 Coffee break

Session II Chairpersons: Gaetano Iaquinto and Raffaele De Palma

11.30 - 12.00 Massimo Fantini (Rome)

Cellular and molecular mechanisms of intestinal inflammatory diseases

12.00 - 13.00 Selected presentations

13.15 - 14.30 Lunch

Session III Chairpersons: Riccardo Troncone and Giacomo Lucivero

14.30 - 15.00 Outi Vaarala (Helsinki)

Role of the gastrointestinal tract in autoimmunity

15.00 - 15.30 Enrico Maggi (Florence)

Mucosal T-effector and T-regulatory responses in allergy

15.30 - 16.00 Coffee break

16.00 - 17.00 Selected presentations

17.00 - 17.30 Closing remarks

Scientific and organizing committee:

Carmen Gianfrani, Piergiuseppe De Berardinis, Riccardo Troncone

Info: Carmen Gianfrani cgianfrani@isa.cnr.it - www.isa.cnr.it