VIRUSES AND DIABETES

Lehar 1 & 2 Hall

Monday, 28 September 2009, 14:00 - 17:00

Chairmen:	Heikki Hyöty, FI Didier Hober, FA Francesco Dotta, IT
14:00 - 14:05	Introduction
14:05 - 14.30	Viruses and Type 1 diabetes. The Cuban Experience. Luis Sarmiento, CU
14:30 - 14:50	Frequent detection of enteroviruses in children with newly diagnosed Type 1 diabetes and investigation of family cases. Antonio Toniolo, IT
14:50 - 15:10	Enterovirus infection and Type 1 diabetes. Merja Roivainen, FI
15:10 - 15:30	Molecular biology of potentially diabetogenic enteroviruses. Glyn Stanway, UK
15:30 - 15:45	Refreshments
15:45 - 16:05	Ultrastructural and immunochemical studies of pancreatic tissue obtained from two recent onset Type 1 diabetic patients and human islets infected with enterovirus in vitro. Gun Frisk, SE
16:05 - 16:25	Further studies of the association between viral infection in human pancreas and diabetes. Alan Foulis, UK
16:25 - 17:00	VIDIS GROUP annual discussion

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