La Jolla Immunology Conference

描述(由申请者提供)：本提案请求在未来五年内为每年一度的拉霍亚免疫学会议(LJIC)提供部分支持。2013年LJIC会议将是第34届年度会议，来自圣地亚哥的基础免疫学家齐聚一堂，包括洛杉矶地区的成员(过去5年)。这场盛大的小型会议将于2008年10月8日至10日在拉霍亚的索尔克研究所举行。这是一次长期的会议，为免疫学学生、博士后研究员和初级教员提供了一个高水平的培训场所。这次会议的重点是我们当地的南加州免疫学社区，近年来吸引了400多名与会者。与会者和演讲者主要来自众多参与的当地研究机构，包括加州大学圣地亚哥分校、斯克里普斯研究所、索尔克研究所和桑福德-伯纳姆研究所，以及拉霍亚过敏和免疫学研究所，以及来自加州大学欧文分校、加州大学河滨分校、加州大学洛杉矶分校、南加州大学、加州理工学院和锡达斯-西奈医学中心的参与者。会议的重点是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方向。会议为期2.5天，邀请了16名来自教职员工级别的发言者(至少6名新调查人员)，并从会议前一个夏天提交的摘要中挑选了16名发言者。另有60-80篇摘要以海报的形式呈现。每次会议都有一位国际公认的主旨演讲人。这次会议的目标是：1)最大限度地增加年轻科学家在免疫学领域的培训经验；2)在圣地亚哥和大洛杉矶地区培养强大的社区精神，该地区拥有如此多专注于基础免疫学的优秀实验室。3)鼓励和促进不同学术机构的个人和团体之间的新合作。4)阐述更大的多重点(也许是多学科)科学倡议的潜力，利用当地环境中的大量科学研究的广度和深度。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This proposal requests partial support for the yearly La Jolla Immunology Conference (LJIC) over the next five years. The 2013 LJIC 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 will be held October 8-10, 2008 at the Salk Institute in La Jolla. This is a longstanding meeting that provides a high-level training ground for Immunology students, postdoctoral fellows and junior faculty. The meeting focuses on our local Southern California Immunology community and draws over 400 attendees in recent years. Participants and speakers are drawn primarily the numerous participating local research institutes including UCSD, The Scripps, Salk, and Sanford-Burnham Institutes, and The La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology as well as participants from UC Irvine, UC Riverside, UCLA, USC, Cal-Tech, and Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. The meeting focuses on the most exciting Immunology research that is being pursued in the area and the yearly program is designed 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. Each meeting features an internationally-recognized keynote speaker. The goals of this meeting are: 1) to maximize the training experience for younger scientists in the area of Immunology 2) to 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) to encourage and facilitate new collaborations between individuals and groups at separate academic institutions. 4) to 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.