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The article introduces scientific conference papers on T cells and skin to be presented at the 22nd Scientific meeting 2014 of the Fondation René Touraine (FRT), a European non-governmental organization that promotes therapeutic progress in dermatology, on 5th December 2014 in Paris, France. Papers by researchers Shimon Sakaguchi, Federica Sallusto and Thomas Gebhardt are included. Specific topics include immune abnormalities found in atopic dermatitis and adoptive transfer of dendritic cells.

This article presents abstracts for various research papers to be presented in the European Society for Dermatological Research's symposium on September 26-28, 1997. These research papers pertain to subjects like the eortic classification for primary cutaneous lymphomas, different prognosis between cutaneous and systemic lymphoproliferative disorders, parapsoriasis and early cutaneous T cell lymphoma, immunoglobulin gene rearrangement of pseudo B-cell lymphomas and prognostic significance of polymerase chain reaction detectable dominant T lymphocyte clones.

The article offers information on the several papers discussed at the second international conference on cutaneous lupus erythematosus. Simon Sakaguchi, professor and chairperson at Institute for Frontier Medical Sciences, Kyoto University, Japan presented the keynote on the contributions of T cells for self tolerance and immune homeostasis. The conference featured presentations by several college teachers including those given by Ralf Paus, S.C.Lee and Jan Peter Dutz.

Information about several papers discussed at the symposium on cellular therapy of cancer, held in Manchester, England from December 2-3, 2006, is presented. The participants discussed several issues related to gene-modified T cell-based immunotherapies. Those who took part in the discussion included medical experts Balbino Alarcon, Janos Szollosi and Zelig Eshhar.

Information about several papers discussed at a conference on the establishment and replenishment of thymic epithelium and the persistence of epithelial progenitor cells into adult life is presented. One researcher presented a data showing that efficient importation of T cell progenitors into the adult thymus requires P-selectin—P-selecting ligand-1 interaction. Another researcher suggested that adult mesenchyme cannot induce proliferation in thymic epithelium.

Presents abstracts of research papers on xenotransplantation to be discussed at the Eighth International Xenotransplantation Congress on September 10-14, 2005 in Göteborg, Sweden. "Xenotransplantation using GalT-KO pigs: the Boston experience," by David Sachs; "Hepatocyte xenotransplantation," by Ira Fox; "Mixed chimerism and tolerization of human T cells to pig xenoantigens," by Yong-Guang Yang; "Endothelial cytoprotection in xenotransplantation," by Anthony Dorling.

The article presents information on the abstracts of the Annual Meeting of the British Society for Allergy and Clinical Immunology that was held at the East Midlands Conference Centre, Nottingham in July 1997. In the paper "T-Lymphocyte Adhesion to Nasal Polyp Endothelium," by F.A. Symon, C.A. McNulty and A.J. Wardlaw, the authors said that adhesion molecules have been widely implicated in the tissue specific homing of memory T-cells to the site at which they first encountered antigen. Despite being a major tertiary organ in lymphocyte re-circulation and a prime site for encountering airborne allergens, a homing adhesion receptor for the lung has yet to be defined.

Presents papers on viral opportunistic infections, which were presented at the Fourth International Symposium on NeuroVirology and at the Tenth Conference on Neuroscience of HIV Infection. Evaluation of a JC virus-specific immunoglobulin M enzyme linked immunosorbent assay; Detection of cytotoxic T lymphocytes specific for an HLA A-restricted epitope of JC virus VP1 protein; HIV+ patients with progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy, anti-JC virus CZD4 T-cell responses following prolonged highly-active antiretroviral therapy.