Annual Woods Hole Immunoparasitology (WHIP) Meeting

产品说明： 这项资金申请是为了支持2012年伍兹霍尔免疫寄生虫学会议（WHIP）的费用，该会议汇集了来自世界各地的免疫寄生虫学领域的主要研究人员，学生和博士后研究员。该领域学者的年度聚会于1997年由爱德华皮尔斯博士（特鲁多研究所）和菲利普斯科特博士（宾夕法尼亚大学）建立，目的是为科学家提供一个在这一重要领域交流思想的学院聚会场所。会议平均每年有125至150人参加。虽然在其他会议上，该领域的高级主要研究人员会介绍他们的数据，但本次会议的重点是提供一个 论坛，研究生和博士后研究员介绍他们的工作，以对方和建立调查。我们还旨在提供机会，突出在该领域的新的初级教师。选择该地点是因为海洋生物实验室（MBL）和寄生虫学领域的密切联系。这种关系始于20多年前，建立了一年一度的夏季课程，寄生虫生物学，并在秋季在MBL举行的年度分子寄生虫学会议。免疫寄生虫学涵盖广泛的疾病和宿主物种，在世界卫生大会上讨论的疾病包括由原生动物（如利什曼病、锥虫病、弓形体病、疟疾）和蠕虫（如裂殖吸虫病、鞭虫病、丝虫病）引起的疾病。这次会议将使科学家们聚集在一起，以促进更好地了解寄生虫产生的免疫反应之间的共性和差异。这次会议的两个重要方面将是促进对寄生虫以及宿主的关注，并将研究实验模型的科学家和研究人类疾病的科学家聚集在一起。 公共卫生相关性： 伍兹霍尔免疫寄生虫学会议汇集了研究世界上许多被忽视的热带疾病和美国流行的寄生虫病的科学家。这次会议上将进行的科学信息和思想交流将推动这些疾病新疗法的发展。

DESCRIPTION: This application for funding is to support expenses for the 2012 Woods Hole Immunoparasitology Meeting (WHIP), which brings together principal investigators, students and postdoctoral fellows from around the world who are in the field of immunoparasitology. The annual gathering of scholars in this field was established in 1997 by Drs. Edward Pearce (Trudeau Institute) and Phillip Scott (University of Pennsylvania) with the intent to provide a collegial meeting place for scientists to exchange ideas in this important field. The meeting averages 125 to 150 participants every year. While there are other meetings where senior principal investigators in this field present their data, the focus of this meeting is to provide a forum where graduate students and postdoctoral fellows present their work to each other and established investigators. We also aim to provide the opportunity to highlight new junior faculty in the field. The location was chosen because of the strong association of the Marine Biology Laboratory (MBL) and the field of parasitology. This relationship began more than 20 years ago with the establishment of the annual summer course, Biology of Parasitism, and with the annual Molecular Parasitology meeting held in the fall at the MBL. Immunoparasitology covers a broad range of diseases and host species, and at the WHIP meeting diseases discussed include those caused by protozoa (e.g. leishmaniasis, trypanosomiasis, toxoplasmosis, malaria) and helminths (e.g. schisotosomiasis, trichuris, filariasis). This meeting will bring scientists togethr to promote a better understanding of the commonalities and differences between the immune responses generated by parasites. Two important aspects of this meeting will be to promote a focus on the parasite in addition to the host, and to bring together scientists working in experimental models and those working on human disease. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The Woods Hole Immunoparasitology meeting brings together scientists who study many of the neglected tropical diseases of the world, and the parasitic diseases endemic in the United States. The exchange of scientific information and ideas that will occur at this meeting will advance the development of new treatments for these diseases.