Third Biennial International Eosinophil Symposium 2003

描述（由申请人提供）：第三届两年一次的国际嗜酸性粒细胞研讨会定于2003年6月25日至29日在斯诺马斯会议中心，斯诺马斯村度假村在白杨，CO的部分财政支持是要求研讨会正在国际嗜酸性粒细胞协会的主持下举行。会议将举办35位特邀演讲者，24场额外的口头演讲（10分钟+ 5场雨讨论）和大约50张海报，这些海报将从初级科学家（研究生，博士后研究员，初级教师）提交的摘要中选出。预计将有200多名与会者有机会提交摘要，以供挑选，用于口头或海报介绍。组织和计划委员会及其国际科学咨询委员会的成员正在准备一个基础，转化和临床研究的尖端计划。会议提供了一个很好的机会，就这个生物医学重要，多样和快速发展领域的最新进展进行演讲和分组会议。会议由嗜酸性粒细胞研究和相关领域的领导人从哮喘，过敏，胃肠道，血液学，肿瘤，纤维化和热带/寄生虫病的角度邀请会谈。重点将放在嗜酸性粒细胞的细胞，分子和免疫生物学的基本方面，以及与嗜酸性粒细胞在正常生理，炎症和疾病发病机制中的功能相关的临床问题。机会包括对嗜酸性粒细胞生物学的药物发现和嗜酸性粒细胞相关疾病的治疗应用分组会议。会议形式为全体会议以及特别是年轻科学家（研究生、博士后研究员）提交的摘要的口头和海报介绍提供了一个高度互动的研讨会式论坛。研讨会的主题如下：（1）嗜酸性粒细胞的发育、成熟、募集和迁移、引发和活化以及死亡，（2）嗜酸性粒细胞在哮喘、变态反应、热带疾病、组织重塑和纤维化、EMS、HES、嗜酸性粒细胞白血病和癌症生物学中的正常与病理生理作用，（3）嗜酸性粒细胞相关疾病和综合征的临床评价/治疗中的当前问题，（4）嗜酸性粒细胞研究中未回答的问题和未来的方向。研讨会将实现以下目标：（1）提供一个场所，将基础和临床科学家聚集在一起，在不同的组织水平和动物模型中研究嗜酸性粒细胞生物学，以促进对它们在正常与病理生理条件下的作用的理解，（2）将基础和临床研究人员聚集在一起，以促进临床治疗的发展，基于对嗜酸性粒细胞免疫生物学和炎症功能的理解，对嗜酸性粒细胞相关疾病进行诊断测试和其他治疗，（3）通过包括来自提交的摘要的许多简短演讲，为参与者提供关于嗜酸性粒细胞基础和临床研究的最新信息，（4）为所有与会者提供与演讲者和海报展示者进行深入讨论和交流想法的机会，以促进基础学科和临床学科之间的相互交流和建立合作，以及（5）为在变态反应学、免疫学、热带疾病、血液学、和癌症研究方面的功能嗜酸性粒细胞在正常生理健康和病理生理疾病。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Partial financial support is requested for the 3rd Biennial International Eosinophil Symposium scheduled for June 25-29, 2003 at the Snowmass Conference Center, Snowmass Village Resort at Aspen, CO. The Symposium is being held under the auspices of the International Eosinophil Society. The meeting will host 35 invited featured speakers, and 24 additional oral talks (10 min + 5 rain discussion) and approximately 50 posters which will be selected from submitted abstracts of junior scientists (graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, junior faculty). More than 200 participants are anticipated who will have the opportunity to submit abstracts for selection for oral or poster presentations. A cutting edge program of basic, translational, and clinical research is being prepared by members of the Organizing and Program Committees and its International Scientific Advisory Board. The conference provides an outstanding opportunity for presentations and breakout sessions on the most recent advances in this biomedically important, diverse and rapidly advancing field. The meeting consists of invited talks by leaders in eosinophil research and allied fields from the perspectives of asthma, allergy, gastrointestinal, hematologic, neoplastic, fibrotic, and tropical/parasitic diseases. The focus will be on basic aspects of eosinophil cellular, molecular and immunobiology, and clinical issues relevant to the functions of eosinophils in both normal physiology, inflammation and disease pathogenesis. Opportunities are included for breakout sessions on applications of eosinophil biology to drug discovery and therapeutics for eosinophil-associated diseases. The meeting format provides a highly interactive, workshop-like forum for both the plenary talks, and the oral and poster presentations of submitted abstracts, especially by younger scientists (graduate students, postdoctoral fellows). The symposium covers the following major themes: (1) Eosinophil development, maturation, recruitment and migration, priming and activation, and death, (2) Normal versus pathophysiologic roles of eosinophils in asthma, allergy, tropical diseases, tissue remodeling and fibrosis, EMS, HES, eosinophil leukemia and cancer biology, (3) Current issues in the clinical evaluation/treatment of eosinophil-associated diseases and syndromes, (4) Unanswered questions and future directions in eosinophil research. The symposium will accomplish the following goals: (1) Provide a venue for bringing together basic and clinical scientists addressing eosinophil biology at different organizational levels and in animal models to foster understanding of their roles in normal versus pathophysiologic conditions, (2) Bring together basic and clinical investigators to foster the development of clinical therapeutics, diagnostic tests and other treatments of eosinophil-associated diseases based on understanding eosinophil immunobiology and inflammatory functions, (3) Provide participants with the latest information on eosinophil basic and clinical research by including many short talks from submitted abstracts, (4) Provide all participants with opportunities for in-depth discussions and exchange of ideas with speakers and poster presenters for cross-fertilization and establishment of collaborations between basic and clinical disciplines, and (5) Provide an interactive forum for effective scientific exchange amongst senior and promising junior scientists and minorities working in the fields of allergy, immunology, tropical diseases, hematology, and cancer research in terms of the functions of eosinophils in normal physiology in health and pathophysiology in disease.