2015 Antimicrobial Peptides Gordon Research Conference & Gordon Research Seminar

 描述(申请人提供)：第十届戈登抗菌肽研究会议(GRC)将于2015年5月在意大利巴尔加召开。这一非常成功的GRC系列自1997年启动以来，一直是推动关于先天免疫的新的跨学科思考的工具。它每隔一年举行一次，被公认为MOS在科学领域的首要和唯一重要会议，该会议于2011年获得诺贝尔医学和生理学奖。会议在美国和欧洲之间轮换地点，以方便活跃在这一研究领域的大型国际科学家社区的出席。抗菌肽是一种基因编码的抗生素，广泛存在于生命的各个领域，越来越多的证据表明，这些肽在各种生物环境中的先天免疫中发挥着重要作用。会议将聚焦于这一不断扩大的多学科研究领域。该计划分为9个阶段的口头陈述和正在进行的海报展示；所有参与者都将被敦促展示其中的一种形式。口头演讲将包括两位国际知名演讲者(Richard A.Flavell教授和Lalita Ramakrishnan教授)的主旨演讲。开幕式将包括青年调查员奖获得者的口头介绍。简短的演讲将从关键海报中挑选出来，关注包括高级、初级和学生级别的科学家。会议讨论的主题包括：生物活性和功能的机制；AMPS对宿主微生物组的影响；AMP在先天性免疫中的不同功能；AMP功能障碍、生物失调和疾病；AMPS的作用。与会者之间有充足的时间进行有组织的讨论和非正式互动。该组织的理念是鼓励多样化的参与，并积极接纳初级科学家、少数民族和身体有缺陷的个人，不存在性别歧视。这次会议的一个创新方面是为研究生和博士后提供了一个会议前论坛，在一个舒适的同行环境中交流新的数据和想法。与过去的GRC系列会议一样，2015年的会议承诺提供一个独特的论坛，就调节免疫功能的基础分子进行深入的科学交流，并提供一个讨论将其用于有价值的新型药物的舞台。

 DESCRIPTION (provided by the applicant): The 10th Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Antimicrobial Peptides will convene in Barga, Italy in May 2015. This highly successful series of GRCs has been a vehicle for driving new interdisciplinary thinking on innate immunity since its initiation in 1997. It is held every other year and is recognized as the premier and single mos important meeting in a scientific field that was recognized in 2011 by a shared Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology. The meeting alternates sites between the US and Europe to facilitate attendance by the large international community of scientists active in this research field. Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are gene-encoded antibiotics found across all domains of life, and accumulating evidence points to a fundamental role for these peptides in innate immunity in a variety of biological settings. The conference will focus on this ever-expanding multidisciplinary field of study. The program is divided into 9 sessions of oral presentations and ongoing poster sessions; all participants will be urged to present one or the other of these formats. The oral presentations will include two keynote addresses by internationally renowned speakers (Professors Richard A. Flavell and Lalita Ramakrishnan). The opening session will include an oral presentation by the recipient of the Young Investigator Award. Short talks will be selected from key posters, with attention to include senior, junior and student level scientists. The themes addressed in the sessions include: Mechanisms of Biological Activities and Function; The Impact of AMPS on Host Microbiome; Diverse AMP Functions in Innate Immunity; AMP Dysfunction, Dysbiosis and Disease; Putting AMPS to Work. Ample time for organized discussion and informal interaction amongst participants has been included. The organizational philosophy is to encourage diverse participation and to positively include junior scientists, minorities, and individuals with physical limitations and be without gender discrimination. An innovative aspect of this meeting is the pre-conference forum for graduate students and post-docs to exchange new data and ideas in a comfortable setting of peers. As with past meetings in this GRC series, the 2015 conference promises to provide a unique forum for deep scientific exchange on fundamental molecules that mediate immune functions and provide an arena for the discussion of harnessing them into valuable novel pharmaceuticals.