Inaugural Meeting of the Brain-Immune Network Group (BING).

10th November 1995, Wolfson Theatre, NHNN Queen Square, London, UK.

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Meeting Programme.

09:00      Registration

09:20 Welcome/Introduction: Prof Louise Cuzner and Dr Alan Watkins.

09:30 Session 1: Chaired by Dr Alan Watkins

Prof N Cohen: Stress, conditioning and the immune response

10:10 C1. Dr JH Thakore: Cortisol synthesis inhibition: a new treatment strategy for the clinical and endocrinological manifestations of depression.

C2. Dr L Devonio: Neuromediators of the brain in the immune response control.

10:40 Coffee

11:00 Session 2: Chaired by Prof Ashley Grossman.

Prof Stafford Lightman: Neuroendocrine-immune interactions.

11:40 C3: Dr JM Bakker: Effects of prenatal dexamethasone treatment on immune responsiveness in the rat.

C4. Dr G Rook: Hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal axis dysfunction in tuberculosis: a new clue to pathogenesis.

12:10-14:00 Lunch/Poster viewing

14:00 Session 3: Chaired by Dr Mick Harbuz

Dr R Dantzer: Pathways of communication between the immune system and the CNS.

14:40 C5. Dr AE Panerai: b-endorphin exerts an inhibitory tone on

immune functions: clinical implications.

C6. Dr SV Vellucci: Changes in gene expression in the

choroid plexus and hypothalamus of sheep subjected to immunological challenge.

15:10 Tea

15:30 Session 4: Chaired by - Dr Terence Smith

Prof C Ottaway: Lymphocyte trafficking - psychological and neuroendocrine regulation.

16:10 C7. Dr V Geenen: Relationship between T-cell education to neuroendocrine self antigens and cytokine production by human thymic epithelium.

C8. Dr D Jessop: Immunoneuropeptides, chronic inflammatory stress and a transgenic AVP rat.

16:40 Discussion: The role of BING - Chaired by BING panel.

17:00 Thanks and close of meeting.