Annual Woods Hole Immunoparasitology (WHIP) Meeting

说明： 这项资金申请是为了支持2012年伍兹霍尔免疫寄生虫学会议(WHIP)的费用，该会议汇集了来自世界各地的免疫寄生虫学领域的主要研究人员、学生和博士后研究员。这一领域的学者年度聚会是由爱德华·皮尔斯博士(特鲁多研究所)和菲利普·斯科特博士(宾夕法尼亚大学)于1997年设立的，目的是为科学家在这一重要领域交流思想提供一个共同的聚会场所。会议平均每年有125到150人参加。虽然还有其他会议，该领域的高级主要调查人员介绍了他们的数据，但这次会议的重点是提供一个 研究生和博士后研究员向彼此和知名研究人员介绍他们的工作的论坛。我们还旨在提供机会，突出该领域的新初级教员。之所以选择这个地点，是因为海洋生物实验室(MBL)和寄生虫学领域有很强的联系。这种关系始于20多年前设立的一年一度的夏季课程--寄生生物学，以及秋季在MBL举行的一年一度的分子寄生虫学会议。免疫寄生虫学涵盖广泛的疾病和宿主种类，在鞭子会议上讨论的疾病包括由原虫(例如利什曼病、锥虫病、弓形虫病、疟疾)和蠕虫(例如血吸虫病、鞭虫病、丝虫病)引起的疾病。这次会议将使科学家们齐聚一堂，以促进对寄生虫产生的免疫反应之间的共性和差异的更好理解。这次会议的两个重要方面将是促进除宿主外对寄生虫的关注，以及将致力于实验模型的科学家和致力于人类疾病的科学家聚集在一起。 公共卫生相关性： 伍兹霍尔免疫寄生虫学会议汇集了研究世界上许多被忽视的热带病和美国地方性寄生虫病的科学家。将在本次会议上进行的科学信息和思想交流将推动这些疾病新疗法的开发。

DESCRIPTION: This application for funding is to support expenses for the 2012 Woods Hole Immunoparasitology Meeting (WHIP), which brings together principal investigators, students and postdoctoral fellows from around the world who are in the field of immunoparasitology. The annual gathering of scholars in this field was established in 1997 by Drs. Edward Pearce (Trudeau Institute) and Phillip Scott (University of Pennsylvania) with the intent to provide a collegial meeting place for scientists to exchange ideas in this important field. The meeting averages 125 to 150 participants every year. While there are other meetings where senior principal investigators in this field present their data, the focus of this meeting is to provide a forum where graduate students and postdoctoral fellows present their work to each other and established investigators. We also aim to provide the opportunity to highlight new junior faculty in the field. The location was chosen because of the strong association of the Marine Biology Laboratory (MBL) and the field of parasitology. This relationship began more than 20 years ago with the establishment of the annual summer course, Biology of Parasitism, and with the annual Molecular Parasitology meeting held in the fall at the MBL. Immunoparasitology covers a broad range of diseases and host species, and at the WHIP meeting diseases discussed include those caused by protozoa (e.g. leishmaniasis, trypanosomiasis, toxoplasmosis, malaria) and helminths (e.g. schisotosomiasis, trichuris, filariasis). This meeting will bring scientists togethr to promote a better understanding of the commonalities and differences between the immune responses generated by parasites. Two important aspects of this meeting will be to promote a focus on the parasite in addition to the host, and to bring together scientists working in experimental models and those working on human disease. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The Woods Hole Immunoparasitology meeting brings together scientists who study many of the neglected tropical diseases of the world, and the parasitic diseases endemic in the United States. The exchange of scientific information and ideas that will occur at this meeting will advance the development of new treatments for these diseases.