32nd Annual Symposium on NHP Models for AIDS

描述(由申请者提供)：本次会议拨款申请(R13)申请资金，以支付计划、组织、宣传和主办第32届艾滋病非人类灵长类模型年度研讨会的部分费用。研讨会将由俄勒冈州国家灵长类研究中心(ONPRC)、俄勒冈州健康与科学大学(OHSU)主办，将于2014年11月11日至14日在俄勒冈州波特兰市的Nines举行。这次会议已经成为介绍和交流利用动物模型进行艾滋病研究的最新进展的主要论坛。预计将有来自世界各地的约250名科学家参加这次会议。将介绍灵长类发病机制、免疫学、病毒学、疫苗、治疗学、基因组学和治疗方法的最新发现。将连续举行四次半天和两次四分之一天的科学会议，每次专门讨论不同的学科。每届会议将有一名特邀主席和一名联合主席，前者将在会议前半部分作30分钟的发言，后者将主持会议并提出问题。一个由代表广泛机构的16名成员组成的科学计划委员会将审查摘要，并为每一次科学会议分配口头或海报演示。选择标准将包括专题与会议主题的相关性以及摘要所载信息的原创性和质量。那些进行正式演讲的人将被要求以手稿的形式提交他们的演讲，并在《医学灵长类杂志》上发表。此外，还将为五个平台会议中不能容纳的有功发言举办海报会议。大会将包括开幕当天的欢迎招待会、第二天的海报会议招待会和研讨会第三天的宴会。为推进会议的教育使命，将举行一次外联会议，主要针对高中科学教师和一般社区成员。这次活动将由Cascade AIDS项目和OHSU科学教育机会办公室协助主办，OHSU科学教育机会办公室致力于促进公众对生物医学研究过程的影响和应用的理解。我们相信，从这次会议中获得的知识将阐明艾滋病毒和SIV是如何引起疾病的，以及如何开发预防感染的疫苗和控制并最终治愈艾滋病毒感染的疗法。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This conference grant (R13) application request funds to partially cover the cost of planning, organizing, publicizing and hosting the 32nd Annual Symposium on Nonhuman Primate Models for AIDS. The Symposium will be hosted by the Oregon National Primate Research Center (ONPRC), Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU), and will be held November 11-14, 2014, at The Nines in Portland, OR. This meeting has become the premier forum for the presentation and exchange of the most recent advances in AIDS research utilizing animal models. It is anticipated that approximately 250 scientists from around the world will attend this meeting. The latest findings in primate pathogenesis, immunology, virology, vaccines, therapeutics, genomics, and curative approaches will be presented. Four consecutive half-day and two quarter-day scientific sessions will be held, each devoted to a different discipline. Each session will have an invited Chair, who will give a 30- minute presentation to open the first half of the session, and a co-Chair, who will moderate the session and entertain questions. A Scientific Program Committee consisting of sixteen members representing a broad spectrum of institutions will review abstracts and assign oral or poster presentation for each of the scientific sessions. Criteria for selection will include relevance of he topic to the theme of the meeting and the originality and quality of the information contained in the abstract. Those individuals giving formal presentations will be asked to submit their presentations in manuscript form for publication in the Journal of Medical Primatology. In addition, there will also be poster sessions for those meritorious presentations that cannot be accommodated in one of the five platform sessions. The conference will include an opening day welcome reception, a second day poster session reception and a banquet on the third day of the symposium. To further the educational mission of the meeting, an Outreach Session, primarily aimed at high school science teachers and general community members, will be held. This event will be hosted with the assistance of the Cascade AIDS Project, and the OHSU Office of Science Education Opportunities, which is dedicated to promoting public understanding of the implications and applications of the process of biomedical research. We are confident that the knowledge gained from this meeting will shed light on how HIV and SIV cause disease and how to develop vaccines to prevent infection and therapies to control and eventually cure HIV infection.