2015 Tropical Infectious Diseases Gordon Research Conference & Seminar

 描述（由申请人提供）：本申请要求NIH为“热带传染病：挑战、机遇和成功”会议提供部分支持，该会议是戈登研究研讨会（GRS）和戈登研究会议（GRC）系列的一部分，将分别于2015年3月7日至8日和3月8日至13日在德克萨斯州加尔维斯顿举行。会议的广泛和长期目标是增加我们对疾病流行病学和宿主-病原体-媒介相互作用的理解，目的是为控制热带传染病（TID）提供新的见解。这次会议的具体目标是召集38名代表热带病研究关键领域的发言者，共有150名与会者，在一个相对孤立、轻松的环境中举行为期七天的会议。GRS计划将针对博士/博士后学员，并以主题演讲开始，并为参与者提供两个科学会议，一个手稿写作技能建设会议以及海报会议。GRC计划将遵循两个主题演讲，解决目前全球对传染病研究的需求。会议将重点讨论具有高度医学重要性的疾病以及一组称为被忽视的热带疾病（NTD）的高疾病负担的贫困促进疾病。会议将讨论主要挑战、新机遇和最近在控制某些工业感染性疾病方面取得的成功。会议将涵盖虫媒病毒、细菌和寄生虫病以及宿主-载体-病原体相互作用。还将举行关于以下问题的专题会议：艾滋病疫苗的状况、疟疾控制中的药物和杀虫剂抗药性管理以及消除某些主要非传染性疾病（淋巴丝虫病、血吸虫病、沙眼和盘尾丝虫病）的运动的状况。会议将考虑病原体基因组学，细胞生物学和免疫学领域的最新基本发现，并结合基于实地的流行病学研究和干预试验的最新发现。会议将以两个主题演讲结束，这些演讲提供了TID控制的持续负担和挑战以及TID研究和培训机会的杰出例子。下午的海报会议将允许所有与会者对这些主题作出贡献。这一应用的意义在于，戈登热带传染病研究研讨会和会议提供了一个论坛，汇集了热带疾病国际研究界的初级和高级多学科成员。其目的是促进从基础到应用问题的讨论，并在不同专业和知识领域之间产生“交叉施肥"，同时建立一个对TID感兴趣的科学家群体。这一应用与健康的关系是，讨论将确定基础科学和流行病学中的重要问题，因为这些问题与制定新战略有关，以控制影响世界六分之一以上人口的最重要的热带疾病。在控制和消除TIDS方面取得进展。

 DESCRIPTION (provided by the applicant): This application requests partial support from the NIH for a meeting on "Tropical Infectious Diseases: Challenges, Opportunities and Successes" as part of the Gordon Research Seminar (GRS) and Gordon Research Conference (GRC) series to be held in Galveston, Texas, March 7-8 and March 8-13, 2015, respectively. The broad and long-term goal of the conference is to increase our understanding of disease epidemiology and host-pathogen-vector interactions with the aim of developing new insights for controlling Tropical Infectious Diseases (TIDs). The specific aims of this meeting are to convene 38 speakers representing critical areas of tropical disease research with a total of 150 participants for a seven-day conference in a relatively isolated, relaxed setting. The GRS program will target doctoral/postdoctoral trainees and open with a keynote presentation and have two scientific sessions for participant presentations, a manuscript writing skill building session as well as a poster session. The GRC program will follow with two keynote presentations addressing present global needs for infectious disease research. The conference will focus on diseases of high medical importance as well as a group of poverty promoting diseases termed Neglected Tropical Disease (NTDs) with high disease burden. The sessions will discuss the major challenges, new opportunities and the recent successes achieved for control of some of the TIDs. The sessions will cover arboviral, bacterial and parasitic diseases as well as host-vector-pathogen interactions. There will also be thematic sessions on the status of vaccines for TIDs, drug and insecticide resistance management for malaria control and the status of disease elimination campaigns against some of the major NTDs (lymphatic filariasis, schistosomiasis, trachoma and onchocerciasis). The sessions will consider recent basic discoveries in the areas of pathogen genomics, cell biology and immunology in the context of the most current findings from field based epidemiologic studies and intervention trials. The conference will close with two keynote presentations that provide outstanding examples of continuing burden and challenges for TID control and opportunities for TID research and training. Afternoon poster sessions will permit all participants to contribute to these topics. The significance of this application is thatthe Gordon Research Seminar and Conference on TIDs provides a forum that brings together junior and senior multidisciplinary members of the international research community on tropical diseases. The intent is to promote discussions from basic to applied questions and to generate 'cross-fertilization\rquote among different specialties and fields of knowledge while establishing a growing community of scientists interested in TIDs. The health relatedness of this application is that the discussions will define the important questions in basic science and epidemiology as they relate to the development of new strategies to control the most important tropical diseases affecting over one sixth of the world's population. ing progress toward the control and elimination of TIDs.