2013 TROPICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES: FROM BENCH TO FIELD GORDON RESEARCH CONFERENCE

描述（由申请人提供）：本提案要求对“热带传染病：从实验室到现场”会议提供部分支持，作为将于2013年2月10日至15日在德克萨斯州加尔维斯顿举行的戈登研究会议系列的一部分。会议的广泛和长期目标是增加我们对宿主-病原体-媒介相互作用的理解，目的是为控制热带传染病（TID）提供新的见解。这次会议的具体目标是召集33名代表热带病研究关键领域的发言者，共有150名与会者，在一个相对孤立、轻松的环境中举行为期五天的会议。该计划将以两个主题演讲开始，解决目前全球对传染病研究的需求。会议将重点讨论最近取得最重大进展的疾病和具有最高医学重要性的疾病。会议将涵盖虫媒病毒和肠道疾病、丝虫病、利什曼病、疟疾、结核病和病媒-病原体相互作用。每场会议将考虑病原体基因组学，细胞生物学和免疫学领域的最新基本发现，并结合实地流行病学研究和干预试验的最新发现。会议将以两个主题演讲结束，这些演讲提供了基础和应用研究的杰出例子，强调如何探索病原体生物学用于疾病控制和疫苗开发的挑战。四个下午的海报会议将允许所有与会者对这些主题作出贡献。这项申请的意义在于， 热带传染病研究会议提供了一个论坛，汇集了国际热带疾病研究界的多学科成员。其目的是促进从基本问题到应用问题的讨论，并在不同专业和知识领域之间产生“相互促进”，同时建立一个对贸易、工业和发展感兴趣的科学家社区。这一应用的健康相关性在于，讨论将确定基础科学方面的重要问题，因为这些问题涉及制定新战略，以控制影响世界六分之一以上人口的最重要热带疾病。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This proposal requests partial support for a meeting on "Tropical Infectious Diseases: from bench to field" as part of the Gordon Research Conference series to be held in Galveston, Texas, Feb. 10-15, 2013. The broad and long-term goal of the conference is to increase our understanding of host-pathogen-vector interactions with the aim of developing new insights for controlling Tropical Infectious Diseases (TIDs). The specific aims of this meeting are to convene 33 speakers representing critical areas of tropical disease research with a total of 150 participants for a five-day conference in a relatively isolate, relaxed setting. The program will open with two keynote presentations addressing present global needs for infectious disease research. The conference will focus on the diseases for which most significant recent progress is being made and on those of the highest medical importance. The sessions will cover arboviral and enteric diseases, filariasis, leishmaniasis, malaria, tuberculosis, and vector-pathogen interactions. Each session will consider recent basic discoveries in the areas of pathogen genomics, cell biology, and immunology in the context of the most current findings from field-based epidemiologic studies and intervention trials. The conference will close with two keynote presentations that provide outstanding examples of basic and applied research, emphasizing how pathogen biology can be explored for disease control and the challenges of vaccine development. Four afternoon poster sessions will permit all participants to contribute to these topics. The significance of this application is that the Gordon Research Conference on TIDs provides a forum that brings together multidisciplinary members of the international research community on tropical diseases. The intent is to promote discussions from basic to applied questions and to generate "cross-fertilization" among different specialties and fields of knowledge while establishing a community of scientists interested in TIDs. The health relatedness of this application is that the discussions will define the important questions on basic science as they relate to the development of new strategies to control the most important tropical diseases affecting over one-sixth of the world's population.