Title: A Novel Treatment of Autoimmune Diseases Using Bi-functional Peptide Inhibitors: Blocking the Immunological Synapse Formation
Dr. Teruna J. Siahaan, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Kansas, USA

Title: The Proteasome Inhibitor Bortezomib for Treatment of Lupus-like Disease in Mouse Models
Dr. Reinhard E. Voll, Nikolaus-Fiebiger Center of Molecular Medicine, IZKF-N2 and Department of Internal Medicine 3, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen,Germany

Title: Cytokine Peptide-based Virus-like Particle Vaccines in the Down-regulation of Allergic and Autoimmune Responses
Dr. Zhikang Peng, Associate Professor, Dept of Pediatrics and Child Health and Dept of Immunology, University of Manitoba, Canada

Title: Potential Therapeutic Applications of Cyclotides
Dr. Norelle L. Daly, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland, Australia

Title: IL-27 Signaling as a Target for Autoimmune Disease Treatment
Dr. Hiroki Yoshida, Department of Biomolecular Sciences, Saga Medical School, Japan

Title: The Airway Smooth Muscle as a Target for Asthma Therapy
Dr. Blanca Camoretti-Mercado, Associate Professor, Section of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Department of Medicine, The University of Chicago, USA

Title: Increased Immunogenicity of Vaccines by Targeting Antigen Presenting Cells
Dr. Bjarne Bogen, Professor of Medicine, University of Oslo, Norway

Title: Targeting Histone Deacetylases in Acute and Chronic Inflammatory Disease
Dr. Matthew J. Sweet, Institute for Molecular Bioscience and Cooperative Research Centre for Chronic Inflammatory Diseases, University of Queensland, Australia