16th International Congress on Toxoplasmosis

第十六届国际弓形虫病大会

• 批准号: 10469179
• 负责人: Emma H Wilson
• 金额: $ 0.8万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA RIVERSIDE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-04-01 至 2023-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10469179
• 关键词: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome; Area; Asian; Atmosphere; Attention; Australia; Basic Science; Biology; Biotechnology; Blindness; Categories; Cells; Cellular biology; Cessation of life; Clinical; Clinical Investigator; Clinical Sciences; Collaborations; Congresses; Country; Data; Databases; Discipline; Disease; Educational process of instructing; Educational workshop; Encephalitis; Ensure; Environmental Science; Epidemiology; Europe; Event; Food Contamination; Funding; Genomics; Geography; Goals; Government; Grant; High School Student; Human; Immune response; Immunocompromised Host; Immunologist; Immunology; Immunosuppression; Industry; Institution; International; Laboratories; Molecular; Myocarditis; Opportunistic Infections; Oral; Parasites; Parasitic infection; Participant; Patient-Focused Outcomes; Patients; Persons; Physicians; Population; Population Biology; Postdoctoral Fellow; Principal Investigator; Proteomics; Public Health; Publishing; Research; Research Personnel; Rest; Schedule; Science; Scientific Advances and Accomplishments; Scientist; South America; Structure; Students; Surveys; Technology; Time; Toxoplasma; Toxoplasma gondii; Toxoplasmosis; Training; Travel; United States National Institutes of Health; Universities; Writing; antiretroviral therapy; career; career development; college; contaminated water; drug development; educational atmosphere; effectiveness evaluation; experience; graduate student; immunosuppressed; improved outcome; informatics tool; marginalized community; meetings; metabolomics; next generation; outreach; pandemic disease; posters; programs; school district; symposium; toxoplasmic encephalitis; unpublished works; vaccine development

PROJECT SUMMARY: The organizers of the 16th International Congress on Toxoplasmosis and Toxoplasma gondii Research request support for this meeting, which will occur in May 2022, after a 1 year pandemic-re- lated delay. Toxoplasma gondii is a ubiquitous, protozoan parasite that is transmitted through contaminated food and water. Subclinical toxoplasmosis infects up to 1/3 of the world’s population. In the immunosuppressed, the parasite can be fatal and causes encephalitis and blindness. This biennial meeting brings together clinicians and principal investigators, graduate students, and postdoctoral fellows from labora- tories engaged in Toxoplasma research worldwide. The main program will consist of non-concurrent short talks, selected from submitted abstracts and organized thematically with evening poster sessions. The strength of this meeting is that it brings together researchers from different disciplines who rarely attend the same meet- ings. These groups include parasite cell and molecular biologists, immunologists, clinical investigators, industry researchers, and representatives of governmental regulatory and public health agencies. The breadth of these topics will be covered by the following five categories: Parasite Cell Biology; Epidemiology, Clinical, and Envi- ronmental Science; Immunology; Host-Parasite Interactions; and Genomics and Population Biology. As in prior meetings, attendees will be encouraged to present unpublished work, and particular attention will be paid to ensuring that early career scientists are highlighted. The aims of this meeting are to: disseminate pioneering research and technology to the field to increase cross-disciplinary collaborations (Aim 1) and support the ca- reers of trainees and junior investigators in STEM, including those from historically marginalized communities (Aim 2). Aim 1 will be accomplished through a diverse range of sequential sessions that encourages discus- sion; the sharing of unpublished data across disciplines through talks and poster sessions; networking events; and two pre-meeting workshops. In addition, to disseminate the scientific content to those who could not attend the meeting, mSphere will publish a summary of meeting highlights, and talks will be posted online. Aim 2 will be accomplished by selecting talks from submitted abstracts which encompass all scientific levels (graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, PIs); increasing the visibility of Junior PIs through their selection as session chairs; a Career Development Workshop for trainees that will highlight the vast array of career options availa- ble to those with advanced scientific training; and, for the first time at this conference, an Outreach Event for AP Biology High School students from a local school district with a high percentage of minoritized students. The funds requested in this grant will 1) facilitate travel and registration for new investigators from geo- graphically underrepresented regions, 2) subsidize travel for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows (~30% of meeting attendees), and 3) support childcare/dependents grants; all of which are critical to maximize our ability to diversify our attendees and make our conference fully inclusive.

项目概述：第16届国际弓形虫病和弓形虫大会的组织者