Ninth International Congress on Toxoplasmosis

第九届国际弓形虫病大会将于6月/7月举行 2007年在蒙大拿州奇科温泉。这是一个国际研究会议 致力于研究原生动物病原体弓形虫会议已经召开 在过去的20年里，每两年一次，在欧洲和美国之间切换。的 2007年会议将由西尔维娅莫雷诺博士，迈克尔白色和鲍里斯 斯特里彭弓形虫是艾滋病机会性感染的重要原因 患者这种寄生虫也经常引起先天性感染，据估计， 在美国，每一千个孕妇中就有一个患有弓形虫病。T.弓形虫 也被认为是一种潜在的生物恐怖主义威胁（附录B），因为它能够引起 水传播疾病最后，T。刚地虫已经成为一种易于遗传的模型 生物研究的生物学和发病机制的几个重要的人类和 兽医寄生虫，包括疟原虫（疟疾），巴氏疟原虫，泰勒虫， 隐孢子虫属（附录B病原体）、环孢子虫属、新孢子虫属、艾美耳球虫属和等孢子虫属。 这次会议很重要，因为它聚集了所有致力于T。弓形虫 并允许在正式和非正式会议上交流新的想法和方法， 水平参与者来自世界各地（欧洲，美国，南美，澳大利亚， 日本）和会议汇集了分子生物学家，临床医生，工业 研究人员和公共卫生官员。会议的目的是传播新的 在该领域的进展，突出T.以弓形虫为模型系统，培养 合作和外地范围的举措，并引进新的或更年轻的调查员， 该领域的领导者。这次会议营造了一种合作的环境， 在T.刚地，这是不经常看到在外地作为高节奏， 具有竞争力，并促进了对这种病原体的研究的快速和持续进展 和相关的寄生虫。

The Ninth International Congress on Toxoplasmosis will be held in June/July 2007 in Chico Hot Springs, Montana. This is an international research conference dedicated to the protozoan pathogen Toxoplasma gondii. The meeting has been held biannually for the last 20 years and switches between Europe and the United States. The 2007 conference will be organized by Drs. Silvia Moreno, Michael White and Boris Striepen. Toxoplasma gondii is an important cause of opportunistic infection in AIDS patients. This parasite also frequently causes congenital infection and it is estimated that one out of a thousand pregnancies in the U.S. is complicated by toxoplasmosis. T. gondii is also considered a potential bioterrorism threat (appendix B) due to its ability to cause waterborne outbreaks. Lastly, T. gondii has emerged as a genetically tractable model organism to study the biology and pathogenesis of several important human and veterinary parasites including Plasmodium (malaria), Babesia, Theileria, Cryptosporidium (appendix B pathogen), Cyclospora, Neospora, Eimeria, and Isospora. This meeting is important in that it gathers all of the laboratories working on T. gondii and allows for the exchange of new ideas and approaches both on a formal and informal level. Participants come from allover the world (Europe, US, South America, Australia, Japan) and the meeting brings together molecular biologists, clinicians, industry researchers and public health officials. The goals of the meeting are to disseminate new advances in the field, highlight the importance of T. gondii as a model system, foster collaboration and field-wide initiatives, and to introduce new or younger investigators to the leaders in the field. This meeting has fostered an environment of cooperation and collaboration in work on T. gondii that is not often seen in fields as high paced and competitive and has facilitated rapid and sustained progress in research on this pathogen and related parasites.