Facility for Analyses of Evolutionary Immunology

我们对自然群体中的选择如何塑造（有利和不利）免疫力，以及这一过程如何有助于生物体（包括人类）的适应性的理解是基本的。为了研究这些过程，我们的集体经验强烈建议，越来越需要地理融合必要和互补的分子和生物医学技术。因此，我们要求提供资金，在一个新的研究领域-进化免疫生态学-建立一个合作研究实验室，其中所有重要方面，从机械到进化水平，都可以在一个研究中心进行研究。

Our understanding of how selection in natural populations shape (favour and disfavour) immunity, and how this process contribute to organismal (including human) fitness, is rudimentary. In order to study such processes our collective experience strongly suggests and increasing need for geographic amalgamation of necessary and complementary molecular and biomedical techniques. We therefore request funding to establish a collaborative research laboratory in a novel research field - Evolutionary Immuno-Ecology- in which all vital aspects, from a mechanistic to an evolutionary level, can be studied at one research centre.