FASEB SRC on Biology of The Immune System

申请者描述(由申请者提供)：本申请请求部分资助2014年美国实验生物学联合会(FASE B)关于“免疫系统生物学”的夏季会议，该会议在过去26年中每隔一年夏季举行一次。这些会议的目的是将来自学术界和制药行业的教授、博士后和博士后水平的基础免疫学家聚集在一起，介绍和讨论前沿研究，强调在细胞和整个生物体水平上运行的免疫机制。会议将集中讨论有关在先天免疫和获得性免疫中发挥关键作用的器官、细胞和分子的重要新发现。这次会议也应该吸引精明的临床研究人员，他们知道下一代疗法将来自于在这次会议上提出的那种基础科学发现。这种久经考验的形式将包括该领域国际领导人的口头陈述，以及其他与会者应邀举行的简短演讲和海报展示。此外, 2014年的会议包括为受训人员和年轻调查人员新设立的“与专家见面”辅导课程。会议的一个主要优点是，与会者留在一个隐蔽的度假胜地，在整个会议期间分享食物。这种完全沉浸的氛围非常有利于各级与会者的深入讨论和合作建设。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application requests partial support for the 2014 Federation of American Societies of Experimental Biology (FASEB) Summer Conference on the "Biology of the Immune System", which has been held every other summer for the past 26 years. The purpose of these meetings is to bring together basic immunologists from academia and the pharmaceutical industry at the professorial, post-doctoral and pre- doctoral levels to present and discuss cutting-edge research, emphasizing immunological mechanisms operating at the cellular and whole organism level. The meeting will focus on important new discoveries concerning the organs, cells, and molecules that play key roles in innate and adaptive immunity. The conference should also be attractive to savvy clinical researchers who know that the next generation of therapies will come from the kind of basic science discoveries presented at this conference. The time- tested format will consist of oral presentations by international leaders in the field, as well as invited short talks and poster presentations by other attendees. In addition, the 2014 meeting includes a newly instituted "Meet the Experts" mentoring session for trainees and young investigators. A major strength of the meeting is that the participants stay in a secluded resort and share meals for the length of the conference. This total immersion atmosphere is very conducive to in-depth discussions and collaboration building for attendees at all levels.