Herrenhäuser Conference on the subject:
The neonatal "window of opportunity", early priming for life
Organization: Prof. Harald Renz (Gießen/Marburg), Prof. Mathias Hornef (Aachen)
Funded by the Volkswagen Foundation Hannover
Environmental factors, nutritional constituents and the contact with microbial constituents influence many biological processes such as the maturation of the mucosal immune system and the establishment of a stable host-microbial homeostasis. New epidemiological and experimental studies identify a time window after birth and during early infancy that is of critical importance for the maturation of the immune system and the establishment of a stable host-microbial interaction. Failure of adaptive processes during this time cannot be compensated for during later life and may contribute to the pathogenesis of a number of highly prevalent immunological and inflammatory human diseases. These new insights underline the particular importance of exogenous influences during early postnatal development and might fundamentally change our understanding of the pathogenesis of immunologial, metabolic and inflammatory diseases such as asthma, allergies, obesity, diabetes and cronic inflammatory bowel disease and help to identify new strategies for the prevention and clinical managment.
Confirmed Speakers:
Rebecca Adkins, University of Miami, USA, Richard Blumberg, Harvard University, USA, Donna Faber, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA, Johan Garssen, University of Utrecht, Netherlands, Peter Ghazal, The University of Edinburgh, Scotland, David Hackam, Johns Hopkins Children's Center Baltimore, USA, Gesine Hansen, Hannover Medical School, Germany, Mathias Hornef, Uniklinik RWTH Aachen, Germany, Arnaud Marchant, Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, Benjamin Marsland, University Hospital of Lausanne, Switzerland, Kathy McCoy, University of Bern, Switzerland, Cathryn Nagler, The University of Chicago, USA, John Penders, Maastricht University, Netherlands, Immo Prinz, Hannover Medical School, Germany, Harald Renz, Universitätsklinikum Gießen und Marburg (UKGM), Germany, Xin Sun, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, Gijs van den Brink, Academic Medical Center (AMC), Netherlands, Henrique Veiga-Fernandes, University of Lisbon, Portugal, Valérie Verhasselt, University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis, France, Erika von Mutius, Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU) Munich, Germany, Jeffrey Weiser, University of Pennsylvania, USA, Agnes Wold, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
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