EUROPIC america 2002: a conference for picornaviruses

EUROPIC america 2002：小核糖核酸病毒会议

• 批准号: 6458806
• 负责人: Eckard Wimmer
• 金额: $ 0.1万
• 依托单位: STATE UNIVERSITY NEW YORK STONY BROOK
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2002
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2002-05-13 至 2003-05-12
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6458806
• 关键词: Picornaviridae; communicable disease control; communicable disease transmission; meeting /conference /symposium; postdoctoral investigator; predoctoral investigator; virus infection mechanism

EUROPIC meetings are dedicated to review, every two years, progress and future directions of research related to Picornaviridae, one of the largest families of human and animal pathogenic viruses. So far, eleven previous meetings have been organized by the European Study Group on Molecular Biology of Picornaviruses, and they have all been held in (nine) European countries. Although this international meeting derived its name from the venue and the continent of origin of the majority of the attendees, the meeting has included Americans from the start and Americans now make up a sizeable fraction of attendees (>21% of the participants at EUROPIC 2000 in Italy. For this reason, the Americans were "nominated" during the last EUROPIC for the first time to organize EUROPIC/america 2002 in the US. A group of five active American picornavirologists volunteered to organize the first American picornaviruses meeting, to be held on Cape Cod at the SeaCrest Resort and Conference Center in Falmouth, MA, on May 14-19, 2002. The meetings have been traditionally attended by scientists from universities, research centers and industry, by postdoctoral fellows and graduate students Indeed, they have been characterized by a very large percentage of young investigators (particularly graduate students), a virtue that is highly educational and will be maintained. It has been estimated that picornaviruses cause >6 billion human infections/yr. and although most infections are self-limiting, a very large proportion cause serious if not fatal human disease. Moreover, new dangerous virus strains are emerging (see the recent outbreak of a new strain of enterovirus 71 in Taiwan). In addition, picornaviruses are the cause of serious animal diseases of which foot- and mouth disease virus (FMDW) may be cited as example. Apart from topics of epidemiology, mechanisms of pathogenesis, structure, and replication, it is planned to organize two workshops within the program that will cover topics of greatest current interest. The first will be dedicated to the cause of the foot-and-mouth disease epizootic ravaging England at the present time, its impact on society, and possibilities of prevention. The over will discuss the difficulties (circulation of vaccine strains, recent outbreak of poliomyelitis in the Western Hemisphere) that have emerged during the current, historic effect to globally eradicate poliovirus.

EUROPIC会议致力于每两年审查一次与人类和动物病原病毒最大家族之一的小核糖核酸病毒科有关的研究进展和未来方向。到目前为止，欧洲小核糖核酸病毒分子生物学研究小组已经组织了11次会议，这些会议都在（9个）欧洲国家举行。虽然这一国际会议的名称来源于会议地点和大多数与会者的原籍大陆，但会议从一开始就包括美国人，现在美国人占与会者的相当大的一部分（在意大利举行的2000年欧洲太平洋岛屿论坛与会者中，美国人占21%以上。因此，美国人在上届欧太会期间首次被“提名”在美国组织2002年欧太/美洲会议。一个由五名活跃的美国小核糖核酸学家组成的小组自愿组织了第一次美国小核糖核酸病毒会议，该会议将于2002年5月14日至19日在马萨诸塞州法尔茅斯的SeaCrest度假村和会议中心举行。会议传统上由来自大学，研究中心和工业的科学家，博士后研究员和研究生参加。事实上，他们的特点是年轻研究人员（特别是研究生）占很大比例，这是一种具有高度教育意义的美德，并将保持下去。据估计，小核糖核酸病毒每年引起> 60亿人感染。虽然大多数感染是自限性的，但很大一部分会引起严重的，如果不是致命的人类疾病。此外，新的危险病毒株正在出现（见台湾最近爆发的肠道病毒71型新株）。此外，小核糖核酸病毒是严重动物疾病的原因，其中口蹄疫病毒（FMDW）可以被引用作为实例。除了流行病学、发病机制、结构和复制等主题外，计划在该方案内组织两个讲习班，涵盖当前最感兴趣的主题。第一个将致力于目前肆虐英国的口蹄疫流行病的原因，它对社会的影响，以及预防的可能性。以上将讨论在当前全球根除脊髓灰质炎病毒的历史性影响中出现的困难（疫苗株的流通，最近西半球脊髓灰质炎的爆发）。