Norwegian Society for Immunology - The Bergen branch

The Bergen branch of NSI has recently been officially established, but NSI members from Bergen have for many years contributed and organised local, national and international meeting activity.

Upcoming events:

The 50-year Anniversary of the Broegelmann Research Laboratory

Date: Tuesday, May 15th 2007, 0930-1300
Venue: The Auditorium, Armauer Hansens hus (AHH)
Haukelandsveien 28, Haukeland Universitetssykehus

Scientific program:

• 09:30 Refreshments
• 10:00 Opening – Welcome, Roland Jonsson, DMD, PhD, Professor, Head, Broegelmann Research Laboratory
• 10:15 The History of the Broegelmann Research Laboratory, Jacob B. Natvig, MD, PhD, Professor emeritus, Rikshospitalet, Oslo
• 11:00 Translational Studies in Rheumatology, Johan G. Brun, MD, PhD, Professor, Institute of Internal Medicine, Bergen
• 11:15 The Complex Origins of Lupus Autoimmunity, John B. Harley, MD, PhD, Member & Program Head, Arthritis & Immunology, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation
  (The 11th Broegelmann Jubilee Lecture)
• Awards will be delivered by Supreme Court Barrister Jan Einar Greve, Chairman, The Broegelmann Foundation
• The session will be chaired by Professor Bjarne Bjorvatn, Member of the Board, The Broegelmann Foundation
• The program ends ≈ 13.00
• Lunch for invited guests (by separate invitation)
  
• All interested are most welcome!

Program flyer (pdf)

Meeting history (not compleete list)

• Immunology seminars (an ongoing weekly seminar for many years). Contact Karl A. Brokstad (address below) for further information.
  

• International Conference on Immunopathology of Mucous Membranes and Exocrine Glands, Bergen, May 13-16, 1997.
  

• NOS-M seminar: "Mucosal Immunity - Role in Local Defence and Immunopathology", Oslo, February 2-4, 2001.
  

• Satellite Meeting to the ICI-2001: "B cells and autoimmunity: new concepts and therapeutic perspectives." Bergen, Norway, July 19-21, 2001.
  

• The Scandinavian Society for Immunology (SSI), 33rd Annual Meeting & 18th Summer School, 24th – 28th April 2002, Bergen, Norway

• Day of Immunology April 29, 2005:
  1. Fredagsmøte i store auditorium
  2. Official Opening Ceremony of Bergen Research School in Inflammation (BRSI)

• The 9th Annual Broegelmann Lecture 2005: Professor Per Brandtzaeg: "The gut-joint axis: clinically relevant?", May 20th 2005.

• 10th Annual Broegelmann Lecture - Day of Immunology 2006

  Friday, May 19th, 2006, 12:00-16:00, Armauer Hansen Building, Bergen
  More information here

• Guest lecture by Professor Pierre Youinou, Brest Medical School Hospital, Brest, France "CD5 regulates B cells and B cells regulate tolerance”

  Thursday, 22nd June 2006, at 12:00 - 13:00, The Main Auditorium, Armauer Hansen Building

• Professor Lars Rönnblom, Uppsala Universitet
  Title: Systemic lupus erythematosus – an interferon driven disease with new therapeutic opportunities (flyer)
  Date: Wednesday, February 7 th , 12:00– 13:00, Venue: Lecture Hall B-301, Haukeland Univ Hospital

• Dr. Med. Elke Theander, Malmö University Hospital, Uppsala Universitet
  Title: Living and dying with Sjögren's syndrome(flyer)
  Date: Wednesday, February 28 th 2007, 12:00 - 13:00, Venue: Lecture Hall B-301, Haukeland Univ Hospital

• FROM INNATE TO SPECIFIC IMMUNITY
  Date:21st-24th March, 2007.
  Venue: Fleischers Hotel, Voss, Norway
  Meeting flyer (pdf)

• Day of immunology/Immunologiens dag.
  Venue: Store Auditorium, Sentralblokken
  Date: Wednesday, April 25 th, 2007
  Program (pdf-flyer)
  
  Please refer to the web site for registration and more information.

• The 50-year Anniversary of the Broegelmann Research Laboratory:
  Date: Tuesday, May 15 th, 2007, 0930-1300
  Venue: The Auditorium, Armauer Hansens house
  Program

The idea is that the local activity will be more formal tied up with and more visual within the total activity of NSI.

NSI members in Bergen are welcome to contact the NSI board for help with organizing, announcing, and/or sponsoring local meetings.

Contact person in Bergen Co-ordinator/representative;

Karl Albert Brokstad, Dr.Scient./Senior Scientist
Broegelmann Research Laboratory, University of Bergen
Armauer Hansen Bldg., N-5021 Bergen, Norway.
tel. +47 - 55 97 46 22 fax. +47 - 55 97 58 17
e-mail: karl.brokstad@gades.uib.no
http://www.uib.no/Broegelmann

Bergen is also an editorial office of Scandinavian Journal of Immunology


Contact adress:

Roland Jonsson, Professor
Broegelmann Research Laboratory
University of Bergen
Armauer Hansen Bldg.
N-5021 Bergen, Norway
tel: +47 - 55 97 46 48
fax: +47 - 55 97 58 17
e-mail: roland.jonsson@gades.uib.no