Cell Death and Inflammation (K2)

Cell Death and Inflammation (K2) is organized by Keystone Symposia on Molecular and Cellular Biology and would be held during May 29 - Jun 02, 2017 at Royal Dublin Society, Dublin, Leinster, Ireland.

The target auience for this medical event are basically for scientists from diverse fields (cell death, inflammation, cancer, innate immunity) that would not normally interact, and will identify and explore the key questions and directions that will shape the future of research in this field.

Cell death has long been known to be an important instigator of inflammation in sterile injury, as well as an amplifying factor in infection-associated inflammation, but the specific molecules underpinning this remain obscure. This conference will explore current knowledge concerning the cellular constituents that drive inflammation (i.e., damage - associated molecular patterns), as well as how abnormal modes of cell death, such as necrosis, necroptosis and NETosis, can perturb inflammatory outputs and responses to dying cells. In particular, the conference aims to explore gaps in our current understanding of how dead and dying cells influence inflammatory responses in disease settings and will bring together experts in two major research fields like cell death and inflammation, for the purpose of clarifying what the key questions and therapeutic targets are in this rapidly evolving area.

This meeting will focus on teasing out the relationships between cell death and inflammatory signaling to highlight how perturbation of either of these processes invariably impacts upon the other. This meeting will also explore the nature of the molecules that promote and modulate inflammation during cell death.