Microbial Pathogenesis and Host Response Conference 2013

描述(申请人提供)：第九届国际微生物致病和宿主反应会议将聚焦于研究传染病的跨学科方法，整合了分子微生物学、真核细胞生物学、免疫学和基因组学等学科。由于新病原体的出现和常见病原体的重新出现，微生物疾病再次在世界卫生保健中发挥重要的核心作用。会议将深入讨论用于阐明细菌和真菌致病机制的方法，并促进将这些概念应用于控制和干预传染病的新战略。口头和海报会议将集中讨论微生物致病和宿主反应的主要主题，包括：致病的遗传方法；共生/致病的调节；生物膜、群体感应和疾病；宿主细胞/病原体的相互作用；炎症的观点；抗生素、化学遗传学和免疫杀死。这些会议将整合关于细菌和真菌病原体的研究。口头会议将首先由该领域知名领导人邀请2-4人进行演讲，然后是几次较短的演讲 从提交的摘要中选择。列入两次宣传性会议，并在每次演讲后为提问分配充足的时间，将鼓励与会者之间进行广泛讨论。会议规模将足够小(300-400名科学家)，以促进这些互动，但又足够大，不仅允许现有研究人员的口头陈述，也允许年轻研究人员和具有新观点的人的口头陈述。细菌和真菌发病机制的广泛方面与宿主对病原体的反应相结合，应该会促进新的跨学科相互作用，而这些相互作用在其他关于微生物发病机制的会议上很少实现，这些会议要么集中在更狭窄的地方，要么过于多样化，以至于主题很难整合。由此产生的跨学科相互作用将产生新的实验方法，否则可能是不可能的。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The ninth international conference on Microbial Pathogenesis and Host Response will focus on interdisciplinary approaches to study infectious disease, integrating the disciplines of molecular microbiology, eukaryotic cell biology, immunology, and genomics. Microbial diseases have once again taken an important central role in health care worldwide, due to the emergence of new pathogens and the re-ascent of common pathogens. The meeting will provide an in depth focus on the approaches that are being used to elucidate the mechanisms of bacterial and fungal pathogenesis, and promote the application of these concepts to novel strategies for the control and intervention of infectious diseases. Oral and poster sessions will focus on major themes of microbial pathogenesis and the host response, including: genetic approaches to pathogenesis; regulation of commensalism/pathogenesis; biofilms, quorum sensing and disease; host cell/pathogen interactions; perspectives on inflammation; antibiotics, chemical genetics and immune killing. The sessions will integrate studies on bacterial and fungal pathogens. The oral sessions will begin with 2-4 invited talks by established leaders in the field, followed by several shorter talks chosen from submitted abstracts. The inclusion of two poster sessions as well as the allotment of ample time for questions following each talk will encourage extensive discussion between the participants. The meeting will be small enough (300 - 400 scientists) to facilitate these interactions, yet large enough to allow for oral presentations not only from established investigators, but also from younger investigators and those with novel perspectives. The integration of a wide variety of aspects of bacterial and fungal pathogenesis with the host response to pathogens should promote new interdisciplinary interactions that are seldom achieved at other meetings on microbial pathogenesis that are either more narrowly focused or so diverse that the topics are difficult to integrate. The resulting interdisciplinary interactionswill yield novel experimental approaches that might not otherwise be possible.