2008 FASEB Summer Conference Biology of the Immune System

描述(由申请人提供)： 这项提议要求部分支持2008年美国实验生物学学会联合会(FASE B)关于“免疫系统生物学”的夏季会议，该会议在过去20年里每隔一个夏天举行一次。会议的目的是汇聚来自学术界和制药行业的教授、博士后和博士后水平的基础免疫学家，介绍和讨论基础免疫学的前沿研究。会议将集中讨论有关器官、细胞和分子的新发现，这些器官、细胞和分子在先天免疫和获得性免疫中发挥关键作用。这次会议也应该吸引精明的临床研究人员，他们知道下一代疗法将来自于在这次会议上提出的那种基础科学发现。这种久经考验的形式将包括该领域国际领导人的口头陈述和其他与会者的海报陈述。会议的一个主要优点是，与会者留在一个隐蔽的度假胜地，在整个会议期间分享食物。这种完全沉浸的氛围非常有利于各级与会者深入讨论和建立合作。这次会议将是2008年以基础免疫学为广泛焦点的决定性的小型会议。2008年FASE B关于“免疫系统生物学”的夏季会议与公众健康相关，因为它将成为领先科学家就免疫反应的基本方面交换意见的论坛。这些想法将推动开发更有效的过敏、自身免疫和移植排斥反应疫苗和治疗方法。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This proposal requests partial support for the 2008 Federation of American Societies of Experimental Biology (FASEB) Summer Conference on the "Biology of the Immune System", which has been held every other summer for the past 20 years. The purpose of the meeting is to bring together basic immunologists from academia and the pharmaceutical industry at the professorial, post-doctoral and pre-doctoral levels to present and discuss cutting-edge research in basic immunology. The meeting will focus on new discoveries concerning the organs, cells, and molecules that play key roles in innate and adaptive immunity. The conference should also be attractive to savvy clinical researchers who know that the next generation of therapies will come from the kind of basic science discoveries presented at this conference. The time-tested format will consist of oral presentations by international leaders in the field and poster presentations by other attendees. A major strength of the meeting is that the participants stay in a secluded resort and share meals for the length of the conference. This total immersion atmosphere is very conducive to in depth discussions and collaboration-building for attendees at all levels. This conference will serve as the definitive small meeting with a broad focus on basic immunology in 2008. The 2008 FASEB Summer Conference on the "Biology of the Immune System" is relevant to the public health because it will serve as a forum for the exchange of ideas among leading scientists about basic aspects of the immune response. These ideas are the engines that will drive the development of more effective vaccines and treatments for allergy, autoimmunity, and transplant rejection.