22nd Annual Symposium on NHP Models for AIDS

描述(由申请人提供)： 本次会议拨款(R13)申请资金用于计划、组织、宣传和主办第22届艾滋病非人类灵长类动物模型年度研讨会的部分费用。研讨会将于2004年11月3日至6日在德克萨斯州圣安东尼奥的威斯汀河滨酒店举行，由西南生物医学研究基金会西南国家灵长类动物研究中心主办。这次会议是介绍和交流利用非人类灵长类模型进行艾滋病研究的最新科学进展的主要论坛。将介绍灵长类发病机制、免疫学、基因组学、病毒学、疫苗和治疗学的最新发现。预计将有300多名来自美国和其他国家的科学家参加。研讨会将包括5个半天的科学会议和一个海报会议。课程将包括：病毒学、病因学、免疫学、疫苗和治疗学/基因组学。每届会议将有一名特邀主席，他将作25分钟的最先进的介绍，以宣布会议上半场的开幕；一名共同主席，他将主持会议并提出问题；以及一名特邀发言者，他还将作25分钟的演讲，以宣布会议下半场的开幕。此外，还将邀请一位主旨演讲人和一位宴会演讲人，他们将讨论有关全球艾滋病危机和相关公共卫生问题的科学方法和关切问题。由代表广泛地域和机构分布的14名成员组成的科学计划委员会将审查摘要，并为每一次科学会议分配口头或海报演示。委员会成员将包括来自不同科学学科的该领域的领导人。选择口头陈述的标准将包括专题的相关性以及摘要所载信息的原创性和质量。那些演讲的人将被邀请以手稿的形式提交他们的演讲，并发表在《医学灵长类动物学杂志》上。海报会议将包括平台会议无法容纳的有功陈述。会议还将包括抵达当天的开幕式招待会，伴随海报会议的招待会，以及在西南工艺美术学院举行的晚宴，前面还有一艘船沿着圣安东尼奥河航行。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This conference grant (R13) application requests funds to partially cover the cost of planning, organizing, publicizing and hosting the 22nd Annual Symposium on Nonhuman Primate Models for AIDS. The symposium will be held November 3-6, 2004 at The Westin Riverwalk Hotel in San Antonio, Texas and will be hosted by the Southwest National Primate Research Center, Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research. This meeting is the premier forum for the presentation and exchange of the most recent scientific advances in AIDS research utilizing the nonhuman primate model. The latest findings in primate pathogenesis, immunology, genomics, virology, vaccines and therapeutics will be presented. It is anticipated that more than 300 scientists from the United States and other countries will attend. The symposium will encompass 5 half-day scientific sessions and a poster session. The sessions will be: Virology, Pathogenesis, Immunology, Vaccines, and Therapeutics/Genomics. Each session will have an invited Chair, who will give a 25-minute state-of-the-art presentation to open the first half of the session, a co-Chair, who will moderate the session and entertain questions, and an invited speaker, who will also provide a 25-minute talk to open the second half of the session. In addition, there will be an invited keynote opening speaker and a banquet speaker, who will address scientific approaches and concerns regarding the global AIDS crisis and related issues of public health. A Scientific Program Committee consisting of fourteen members representing a broad geographic and institutional distribution will review abstracts and assign oral or poster presentation for each of the scientific sessions. Committee members will include leaders in the field from a variety of scientific disciplines. Criteria for selection of oral presentations will include relevance of the topic as well as originality and quality of the information contained in the abstract. Those giving talks will be invited to submit their presentations in manuscript form for publication in the Journal of Medical Primatology. A poster session will include meritorious presentations that cannot be accommodated in one of the platform sessions. The conference will also include an opening reception on the day of arrival, a reception accompanying the poster session, and an evening banquet at the Southwest School of Arts and Crafts with a preceding boat cruise along the San Antonio river.