La Jolla Immunology Conference

描述（由申请人提供）： 该提案要求在未来五年内为一年一度的拉霍亚免疫学会议提供部分支持。2008年会议将代表第34届年会，汇集了来自圣地亚哥的基础免疫学家，并包括洛杉矶地区的成员（在过去5年）。这个极好的小型会议定于2008年10月21日至23日在拉霍亚的索尔克研究所举行。这是一个长期的会议，为免疫学学生，博士后研究员和初级教师提供了一个高水平的培训基地。会议强调当地团体，每年吸引200-300名与会者。与会者和发言者主要来自圣地亚哥地区，最近还包括来自大洛杉矶地区的团体。每年邀请两名主旨发言人宣布会议开幕，为讨论定下基调，然后结束会议，帮助提供对会议进程的看法。会议内容侧重于该领域正在进行的最令人兴奋的免疫学研究，年度计划旨在展示当前的新兴趋势并突出未来的发展方向。会议为期2.5天，邀请了16名来自教师队伍的演讲者（至少6名新调查员）和16名从会议前夏季提交的摘要中选出的演讲者。另外还有60-80份摘要以海报形式展示。本次会议的目的是1）最大限度地提高免疫学领域年轻科学家的培训经验2）在圣地亚哥和大洛杉矶地区培养强大的社区精神，该地区拥有许多专注于基础免疫学的优秀实验室。3)鼓励在不同学术机构的小组内的个人之间进行新的合作。4)详细阐述开展更大规模的多重点（或许是多学科）科学举措的潜力，这些举措将利用当地环境中科学研究的广度和深度。拉霍亚免疫学会议是一个长期运行的动态小型免疫学会议，为年轻和经验丰富的免疫学家提供高水平的培训，以整合基础免疫学的细胞和分子基础。这次会议为交流当前的研究提供了一个重要的本地论坛，重点是了解适应性免疫的调节。这个高度参与的论坛促进了强烈的地方社区意识，并非常有效地在免疫学领域开展了富有成效的合作。本次会议的内容和重点推动了改善疫苗设计、自身免疫治疗、肿瘤治疗和移植排斥管理的努力，因此可以认为与NIAID的公共卫生举措高度相关。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This proposal requests partial support for the yearly La Jolla Immunology Conference over the next five years. The 2008 meeting will represent the 34th annual conference that brings together fundamental Immunologists from the San Diego and has included members of the Los Angeles region (over the past 5 years). This superb small meeting is set for October 21-23, 2008 and will be held at the Salk Institute in La Jolla. This is a long-standing meeting that provides a high-level training ground for Immunology students, post-doctoral fellows and junior faculty. The meeting emphasizes local groups and draws 200-300 attendees each year. Participants and speakers are drawn primarily from the San Diego area with recent inclusion of groups from the greater Los Angeles area. There are two keynote speakers who are invited each year to open the meeting and set the tone for discussion and then close the meeting to help to provide perspective on the proceedings. The meeting content focuses on the most exciting Immunology research that is being pursued in the area and the yearly program is constructed to showcase current emerging trends and highlight future directions. The meeting runs for 2.5 days with 16 speakers invited from the rank of faculty (at least 6 new investigators) and 16 speakers selected from abstracts submitted in the summer prior to the meeting. A further 60-80 abstracts are presented as posters. The purpose of this meeting is to 1) maximize the training experience for younger scientists in the area of Immunology 2) foster a strong community spirit in the San Diego and greater Los Angeles area that contains so many outstanding laboratories focused on Basic Immunology. 3) encourage new collaborations across individuals within groups at separate academic institutions. 4) elaborate the potential for larger multi-focal (and perhaps multi-disciplinary) scientific initiatives that utilize the substantial breadth and depth of scientific research in the local environment. The La Jolla Immunology Conference is a long-running dynamic small Immunology meeting that provides high-level training for young and experienced Immunologists to integrate the cellular and molecular underpinnings of basic immunology. This meeting provides a critical local forum for the exchange current research with substantial emphasis on understanding the regulation of adaptive immunity. This highly attended forum promotes a strong sense of local community and very effectively nucleates productive collaborative efforts in Immunology. The content and focus of this meeting drive efforts to improve vaccine design, treatments of autoimmunity, tumor therapies and the management of transplant rejection and hence can be considered highly relevant to the public health initiatives of the NIAID.