CONGRESS GUIDE

ERS International Congress 2016
DETAILED PROGRAMME
SUNDAY 04 SEPTEMBER, 2016
Track(s) : Sleep Oncology
Tag(s) : Translational
Target audience : Clinician, Nurse, Physiologist, Pulmonologist, Researcher, Resident, Respiratory physician, Scientist, Sleep
specialist/technologist, Trainee
Chairs : Renata L. Riha (Edinburgh, United Kingdom), Maria Bonsignore (Palermo, Italy)
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Clinical data
Miguel Ángel Martínez García (Valencia, Spain)
Animal studies
Ramón Farré Ventura (BARCELONA, Spain)
Continuous versus intermittent hypoxia mechanisms in cancer
Silke Ryan (Dublin 14, Ireland)
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Limitations of the current data and clinical perspectives
Patrick Levy (Grenoble, France)
Prince Regent Room Session 236 14:45 - 16:45
Hot topics: Traffic air pollution in urban areas
a continued cause for concern
Aims : The symposium aims to highlight the latest concerns regarding the increasing impact of urban traffic-derived air pollution, notably
particulate matter and diesel exhaust particles (DEP), on human respiratory and cardiovascular health. By the end of the session, delegates
will be aware of the issues that relate to the impact of the source, size fraction, and components of particulate matter on their bioreactivity
and effect on pulmonary and cardiovascular health; how the addition of commercial nanoceria can modulate diesel exhaust particle
physicochemistry and bioreactivity; the mechanisms by which inhaled particulate matter might induce adverse respiratory and
cardiovascular effects; novel data regarding the impact of gasoline-derived particles on normal and diseased human respiratory epithelium;
and novel insights into the role of DEP activation of transient receptor potential (TRP) ion channels in sensory nerve activation and cough.
Track(s) : Epidemiology / Environment
Tag(s) : Translational, Healthy Lungs for Life (HLfL)
Target audience : Allergologist, Allied health professional, Cardiologist, Clinician, Educationalist, Epidemiologist, Fellow, General
practitioner, Immunologist, Junior member, Microbiologist, Nurse, Occupational therapist, Paediatrician, Pathologist, Patient,
Physiologist, Public health official, Pulmonologist, Researcher, Respiratory physician, Scientist, Student, Trainee
Chairs : Terry Tetley (London, United Kingdom), Agnes Boots (Maastricht, Netherlands)
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Adverse effects of traffic-derived airborne particulate matter: recent health-related and scientific
evidence
Flemming Cassee (Utrecht, Netherlands)
Respiratory effects of diesel exhaust particles: real-life exposure studies and the moderating effect of
adding ceria in vitro
Junfeng Zhang (Durham, United States of America)
Bioreactivity and fate of nanoparticles deposited at the pulmonary epithelial interface: focus on trafficderived
particulate matter
Marianne Geiser (Bern, Switzerland)
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Novel mechanism of diesel exhaust particle-induced cough: specific activation of transient receptor
potential (TRP) channels in vagal sensory afferent nerves
Maria Gabriela Belvisi (London, United Kingdom)
Room L Session 237 14:45 - 16:45
Symposium: Childhood asthma causation
Is it the air they breathe or the food they eat?
Aims : The aims of this session are to provide up-to-date state-of-the-art summaries of the evidence linking ambient air exposure and
dietary exposures to childhood asthma; some of the underlying mechanisms will also be reviewed. The evidence linking accelerated
growth and childhood obesity to childhood asthma will be summarised, and an overview of developmental programming will be provided.
Finally, how environmental factors could influence the development of asthma via epigenetic mechanisms will be described.
Track(s) : Epidemiology / Environment Paediatric
Tag(s) : Translational, Healthy Lungs for Life (HLfL)
Target audience : Allergologist, Epidemiologist, General practitioner, Paediatrician, Researcher
Chairs : Stephen Turner (Aberdeen, United Kingdom), Franca Rusconi (FIRENZE, Italy)
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