Having in mind heterogeneity of the participants at this meeting and in order to facilitate informal contacts between students and faculty, we provide full addresses, picture and short biosketches of the invited speakers.  More information including references may be found on the Conference Website www.eji-efis.com as well as at the institutional or personal websites of the speakers.

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                 Professor M L Lukic

Professor of Immunology, Faculty of Medicine
University of Kragujevac and
Professor & Chair, Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Faculty of Medicine, United Arab Emirates University
Phone: +971-3-7137516, Fax: +971-3-7671966
E-mail: m.lukic@uaeu.ac.ae

Professor Lukic obtained his MD and PhD degree from the University of Belgrade (U.B). Prior to his present appointments, he was Fulbright Scholar at Tufts University and EMBO Visiting Professor, University College London and was Professor and Chair of Microbiology/Immunology, University of Belgrade, School of Medicine, His research interest is immunoregulation and pathogenesis of organ specific autoimmune diseases.

                 Professor N A Mitchison, FRS

Member National Academy of Sciences, USA
Institute of Ophthalmology
University College London Medical School
46 Cleveland Street, London W1P 6DB
United Kingdom
E-mail: n.mitchison@ucl.ac.uk

Professor Mitchison received his PhD degree from New College Oxford with Sir Peter Medawar and hold professorial and leadership positions at University of Edinburgh, National Institute of Medical Research, London, University College London and German Institute for Research in Rheumatology. His contributions, now textbooks matter now include requirement of antigen presentation by cell, cell mediated graft rejection, low zone tolerance and ‘hapten’ – carrier effect. His influence in the development of immunology is hard to overestimate. His present interest is in immunoregulation and genetics.

                 Professor Marija Mostarica Stojkovic

Professor and Head of Immunology
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine,
University of Belgrade
Dr Subbotica 1, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia
E-mail: mostarica@med.bg.ac.yu

Professor Mostarica Stojkovic obtained her MD and PhD degree from University of Belgrade and postdoctoral training at the University of Wurzburg and University of Pennsylvania. Her main research interest is neuro-immunology with particular emphasize on EAE model in rats.

                 Professor Sergei A. Nedospasov

Member Russian Academy of Sciences
Head of Department, Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology,
Russian Academy of Sciences
32 Vavilov Street, 119991 Moscow, Russia.
Phone: +7-905-135-9964, Fax: +7-905 135-1405
Email: sergei.nedospasov@googlemail.com

Dr. Nedospasov is Professor and Head of the Laboratory of Molecular Immunology at both, Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences, in Moscow and A.N. Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Moscow State University. He has secondary appointment at the German Institute for Research in Rheumatology (Berlin). He received his Ph.D. and his D.Sc. from the Institute of Molecular Biology, Moscow. He has been a visiting scientist in the Department of Virology of the Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research in Lausanne and at the NCI-Frederick Cancer Research and Development Center in Frederick, Maryland. Dr. Nedospasov was first named an HHMI International Research Scholar in 1995 for his project entitled "Distinct Role of TNF Produced by Different Cell Types in Infectious Disease and Experimental Hepatitis." He is a member of Russian Academy of Sciences.

                 Professor Janko Nikolich-Zugich

Chairman, Department of Immunobiology
Co-Director, Arizona Center on Aging
Elizabeth Bowman Professor in Medical Research College of Medicine,
University of Arizona, 1501 N Campbell Ave.
Tucson, AZ 85724, USA
Phone 520-626-6065, Fax : 520-626-2100
E-mail: nikolich@email.arizona.edu

Janko-Nikolich-Zugich is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Immunobiology and Co-Director of the Arizona Center on Aging at the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona, USA. He obtained his M.D. and Ph.D. in immunology from the University of Belgrade, and postdoctoral training at the Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, USA. Before the University of Arizona, he held positions at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and Cornell University in New York, USA, and at the Oregon Health and Science University in Portland, Oregon, USA. His main interest is in understanding CD8+ T-cell biology, homeostasis and senescence, and the relationship between immunosenescence and aging.