8th Conference: Drug Abuse, Immunomodulation and AIDS

描述：(申请人摘要) 药物滥用、免疫调节和艾滋病系列第八次会议将于 2001年3月22日至25日在埃默里大学会议中心举行，将 题为《传染病和神经艾滋病中的神经免疫连接》。这个 会议的愿景将是突出下列基本机制： 各种药物改变神经免疫回路，从而调节免疫。 系统对传染病的反应。药物滥用在人类社会中的作用 HIV-1感染向艾滋病的进展与中枢神经系统的渗透 神经系统导致神经艾滋病和痴呆症将被突出。目标 会议的内容包括介绍这一领域的最新数据 以及对其影响的热烈讨论；对下一代的培训 一代研究人员和临床医生致力于解决这些问题；以及 出版一本关于关键演示文稿的书，以取得 会议对不能出席的人开放。实现目标的方法 将完成包括六个受邀和提交的论文研讨会以及 每一次之后都有一个讨论小组、一次海报会议和非正式讨论 在两次会议之间。为了获得最好的演示文稿，一组 大约。已经征集了40名个人的最佳推荐信 以及最新的已发布和未发布的数据。然后，一个计划委员会将 对提交的材料进行评估，并决定最终方案。海报展示会 将以约。10名年轻的调查人员将得到以下资助 这笔赠款将用于出席会议。与这10人一起，学生和居民 参加佐治亚州神经科学联盟的成员学校将被邀请 出席会议并介绍他们的成果。财团成员 包括佐治亚州的4所医学院(埃默里、莫尔豪斯、默瑟和奥古斯塔) 以及主要的公立大学(佐治亚州立大学、佐治亚州和佐治亚理工学院)。 进一步的地方参与将通过联系疾病控制与预防中心，埃默里 CFAR(NIDA)和耶克斯灵长类中心，这两家公司的总部都设在 在会议中心几百码的范围内。

DESCRIPTION: (Applicant's Abstract) The 8th Conference in the series Drug Abuse, Immunomodulation and AIDS will be held March 22-25, 2001 in the Emory University Conference Center and will be entitled Neuroimmune Connections in Infectious Disease and NeuroAIDS. The vision of the conference will be to highlight the basic mechanisms by which various drugs alter neuroimmune circuits causing modulation of the immune system's response to infectious disease. The role of drug abuse in the progression of HIV-1 infection to AIDS and the infiltration of the central nervous system leading to neuroAIDS and dementia will be highlighted. The goals of the meeting include the presentation of the most current data in this area and vigorous discussion of its implications; the training of the next generation of researchers and clinicians to work on the problems; and the publication of a book of the key presentations to make the results of the meeting available to those unable to attend. The methods by which the goals will be accomplished include six symposia of invited and submitted papers plus a discussion panel after each, a poster session, and informal discussions between sessions. To obtain the best papers for presentation, a group of approx. 40 individuals has been solicited for their recommendations on the best and most recent data, published and unpublished. A program committee will then evaluate the submissions and decide on the final program. The poster session will feature the work of approx. 10 young investigators who will be funded by this grant to attend the meeting. Along with these 10, students and residents attending member schools in the Georgia Neuroscience Consortium will be invited to attend the meeting and present their results. Members of the Consortium include the 4 Georgia Medical Schools (Emory, Morehouse, Mercer and Augusta) and the major public colleges (Georgia State, Georgia and Georgia Tech). Further local participation will be obtained via contacts at the CDC, the Emory CFAR (NIDA) and the Yerkes Primate Center, all of which are headquartered within a few hundred yards of the Conference Center.