Annual Symposium of the Colorado Alphaherpesvirus Latency Society

摘要 科罗拉多州甲型疱疹病毒潜伏时间协会(CALS)成立于2011年，旨在提供一个开放交流的场所 来自领先的临床和研究科学家的未发表的数据，目标是消除老年人引起的疾病 通过甲型疱疹病毒的重新激活。为期两天的CALS会议形式包括30个简短的演讲，每个演讲后面都有 延长讨论时间。增加CALS影响的一项重大创新是由一个世界- 不参与病毒学的神经科学家，他的演讲提供了独特的观点，经常开创新的领域 学习。由21名成员组成的CALS计划委员会(所有无偿的、高生产率的和有地位的研究人员) 参与挑选全体演讲者和海报演示文稿，并在所有重大决策中指导协会。CALS 是501(C)(3)免税教育组织。年度研讨会不收取注册费，并已 部分资金来自企业赞助商的慈善捐款和R13会议支持奖 美国国立卫生研究院。申请的资金将保持会议的高水平，其中包括学生/博士后研究员 通过与该领域的领导者进行深入、一对一的讨论以及书面评论进行指导和教育 和一个公开论坛，在这个论坛上，学术界、工业界和政府职位的个人都在谈论职业生涯 问题。CALS专题讨论会的新内容是专门讨论赠款撰写的机械学和哲学(F31、F32和 R01申请)，由已建立的志愿者团队为学生/博士后研究员/早期调查人员提供 具有丰富的NIH研究部门经验的调查人员。CALS也意识到在科学界代表不足的少数族裔 并建立了两个新的合作伙伴，通过早期识别和 师徒关系。过去的CALS研讨会取得了公认的成功，使这次会议成为高度集中的主要场所 世界专家讨论解决潜伏期重新激活引起的老年人疾病的各个方面的关键问题 甲型疱疹病毒，以及对未来研究人员的有效和富有成效的培训。

Abstract The Colorado Alphaherpesvirus Latency Society (CALS) was established in 2011 to provide a venue for open exchange of unpublished data from leading clinical and research scientists, with the goal of eliminating disease in the elderly caused by alphaherpesvirus reactivation. The 2-day CALS meeting format features 30 concise presentations, each followed by extended discussions. A significant innovation that increases the impact of CALS is a plenary presentation by a world- class neuroscientist not involved in virology, whose talk provides unique perspectives that often initiate new areas of study. The 21-member CALS planning committee (all non-paid, highly productive and established researchers) participates in selection of plenary speakers and poster presentations, and guides the Society in all major decisions. CALS is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt educational organization. The annual symposium does not charge a registration fee and has been financed in part through charitable contributions from corporate sponsors and an R13 conference support award from the NIH. The requested funds will maintain the high caliber of the meeting, which includes student/postdoctoral fellow mentorship and education through in-depth, one-on-one discussions with leaders in the field along with written critiques of their project, and an open forum wherein individuals in academia, industry and government positions address career questions. New to CALS symposia is a session dedicated to mechanics and philosophy of grant writing (F31, F32 and R01 applications) for students/postdoctoral fellows/early-stage investigators by a volunteer team of established investigators with extensive NIH study section experience. CALS is also aware of underrepresented minorities in science and has established two new collaborations to draw this important group into the field through early identification and mentorship. The recognized success of past CALS symposia has made this meeting the premier venue for highly focused discussions of key issues by world experts addressing all aspects of disease in the elderly caused by reactivation of latent alphaherpesviruses, along with the efficient, productive training of future investigators.