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

描述(由申请人提供)：本提案请求部分支持将于2013年2月10日至15日在得克萨斯州加尔维斯顿举行的戈登研究会议系列会议的一部分，主题为“热带传染病：从替补席到田野”。会议的广泛和长期目标是增加我们对宿主-病原体-病媒相互作用的了解，目的是为控制热带传染病(TID)发展新的见解。这次会议的具体目标是召集33位代表热带疾病研究关键领域的演讲者，共有150人参加，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，以解决目前全球对传染病研究的需求。会议将集中讨论最近正在取得最重大进展的疾病和具有最高医学重要性的疾病。这些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-病原体的相互作用。每一次会议将结合现场流行病学研究和干预试验的最新发现，讨论病原体基因组学、细胞生物学和免疫学领域的最新基本发现。会议将以两个主旨演讲结束，这两个演讲提供了基础和应用研究的杰出例子，强调了如何探索病原体生物学来控制疾病和疫苗开发的挑战。四个下午的海报会议将允许所有参与者为这些主题做出贡献。这个应用程序的意义在于戈登 热带病研究会议提供了一个论坛，将国际热带病研究界的多学科成员聚集在一起。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“交叉培养”，同时建立一个对TID感兴趣的科学家社区。这项申请与健康有关的是，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的战略，以控制影响世界六分之一以上人口的最重要的热带病。

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.