32nd Annual Symposium on NHP Models for AIDS

描述（由申请人提供）：本次会议补助金（R13）申请要求资金部分支付规划，组织，宣传和主办第32届非人类灵长类动物艾滋病模型年度研讨会的费用。研讨会将由俄勒冈州国家灵长类动物研究中心（ONPRC），俄勒冈州健康与科学大学（OHSU）主办，并将于11月11日至14日，2014年，在九在波特兰，或.这次会议已成为利用动物模型介绍和交流艾滋病研究最新进展的主要论坛。预计来自世界各地的约250名科学家将出席这次会议。将介绍灵长类动物发病机理、免疫学、病毒学、疫苗、治疗学、基因组学和治疗方法的最新发现。将连续举行四次为期半天和两次为期四分之一天的科学会议，每次会议都致力于不同的学科。每次会议将有一名特邀主席，他将在会议前半部分作30分钟的发言，并有一名联合主席主持会议并回答问题。一个由代表广泛机构的16名成员组成的科学计划委员会将审查摘要，并为每个科学会议分配口头或海报演示。选择标准将包括主题与会议主题的相关性以及摘要中所载信息的原创性和质量。那些发表正式演讲的人将被要求以手稿的形式提交他们的演讲，以便在医学灵长类杂志上发表。此外，还将举办海报展示会，以展示无法在五个平台会议之一上进行的有价值的介绍。会议将包括开幕日的欢迎招待会、第二天的海报会议招待会和第三天的宴会。为了进一步推动会议的教育使命，将举行一次外联会议，主要针对高中科学教师和一般社区成员。该活动将在级联艾滋病项目和OHSU科学教育机会办公室的协助下举办，该办公室致力于促进公众对生物医学研究过程的影响和应用的理解。我们相信，从这次会议中获得的知识将有助于了解艾滋病毒和SIV如何引起疾病，以及如何开发预防感染的疫苗和控制并最终治愈艾滋病毒感染的疗法。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This conference grant (R13) application request funds to partially cover the cost of planning, organizing, publicizing and hosting the 32nd Annual Symposium on Nonhuman Primate Models for AIDS. The Symposium will be hosted by the Oregon National Primate Research Center (ONPRC), Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU), and will be held November 11-14, 2014, at The Nines in Portland, OR. This meeting has become the premier forum for the presentation and exchange of the most recent advances in AIDS research utilizing animal models. It is anticipated that approximately 250 scientists from around the world will attend this meeting. The latest findings in primate pathogenesis, immunology, virology, vaccines, therapeutics, genomics, and curative approaches will be presented. Four consecutive half-day and two quarter-day scientific sessions will be held, each devoted to a different discipline. Each session will have an invited Chair, who will give a 30- minute presentation to open the first half of the session, and a co-Chair, who will moderate the session and entertain questions. A Scientific Program Committee consisting of sixteen members representing a broad spectrum of institutions will review abstracts and assign oral or poster presentation for each of the scientific sessions. Criteria for selection will include relevance of he topic to the theme of the meeting and the originality and quality of the information contained in the abstract. Those individuals giving formal presentations will be asked to submit their presentations in manuscript form for publication in the Journal of Medical Primatology. In addition, there will also be poster sessions for those meritorious presentations that cannot be accommodated in one of the five platform sessions. The conference will include an opening day welcome reception, a second day poster session reception and a banquet on the third day of the symposium. To further the educational mission of the meeting, an Outreach Session, primarily aimed at high school science teachers and general community members, will be held. This event will be hosted with the assistance of the Cascade AIDS Project, and the OHSU Office of Science Education Opportunities, which is dedicated to promoting public understanding of the implications and applications of the process of biomedical research. We are confident that the knowledge gained from this meeting will shed light on how HIV and SIV cause disease and how to develop vaccines to prevent infection and therapies to control and eventually cure HIV infection.