6th International Feline Retrovirus Research Symposium

描述（由申请人提供）：国际猫逆转录病毒研究研讨会（IFRRS）是一个两年一次的研讨会，在过去的10年里以现在的名称在欧洲和美国举行。本会议拨款申请要求资金部分支持计划、组织、宣传和主办第六届国际猫逆转录病毒研究研讨会的费用。研讨会将于2002年12月2日至5日在佛罗里达州阿米莉亚岛的丽思卡尔顿酒店举行，由佛罗里达大学与北卡罗莱纳州立大学和美国国立卫生研究院联合主办。举办本次研讨会的额外费用将由与会者支付的注册费以及商业（制药和生物技术公司）、学术和私人机构的捐款支付。本次研讨会的主要目的是作为一个科学论坛，传播和交流国际科学界的新研究成果、思想和方向，这些科学界的研究重点是研究实验性猫逆转录病毒感染作为人类艾滋病和白血病的模型。今年研讨会的中心主题将是促进猫的实验性逆转录病毒感染作为人类艾滋病和白血病的小动物模型的进展，题目将是“艾滋病和癌症的FIV/FeLV/猫模型的未来方向”。为此，本次研讨会的科学计划将与往年相比有很大的不同，往年只集中在FlV和FeLV研究方面的优秀演讲者。第六届IFRRS的主讲人在各自的HIV/SIV和HTLV研究领域都有卓越的表现，以促进来自猫科研究界以外的思想和信息的交流。通过接触最先进的HIV， SlV和HTLV演讲者，我们希望更新和确定FIV和FeLV研究的新方向。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The International Feline Retrovirus Research Symposium (IFRRS) is a bi-annual symposium that has been held in Europe and the USA for the last 10 years under the current name. This conference grant application requests funds to partially support the cost of planning, organizing, publicizing, and hosting the 6th International Feline Retrovirus Research Symposium. The symposium will be held at the Ritz-Carlton Resort in Amelia Island, Florida on December 2-5,2002 and will be centrally hosted by the University of Florida in partnership with North Carolina State University and NIH. Additional costs for running this symposium will be covered by registration fees paid by conferees and by contributions made by commercial (pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies), academic, and private institutions. The main objective of this symposium is to serve as a scientific forum to disseminate and exchange new research findings, ideas, and directions by an international scientific community whose research focuses are on the study of experimental feline retrovirus infection as models for human AIDS and leukemia. The central theme of this year's symposium will be to promote the advancement of experimental retrovirus infection of cats as small animal models for human AIDS and leukemia and the title will be "Future Directions for FIV/FeLV/Cat Models of AIDS and Cancer". To this end, the scientific program of this symposium will differ greatly from previous years that focused on speakers with excellence in FlV and FeLV research alone. The keynote speakers of 6th IFRRS have been selected for excellence in their respective fields in HIV/SIV and HTLV research in order to facilitate the interchange of ideas and information from outside the feline research community. By exposure to state-of-the-art speakers in HIV, SlV, and HTLV, we hope to update and identify new directions in FIV and FeLV research.