FASEB SRC Biology of the Immune System

描述（由申请人提供）：本提案要求部分支持2010年美国实验生物学学会联合会（FASEB）“免疫系统生物学”夏季会议，该会议在过去22年中每隔一个夏天举行一次。会议的目的是汇集来自学术界和制药行业的教授，博士后和博士前水平的基础免疫学家，介绍和讨论基础免疫学的前沿研究。会议将集中讨论在先天免疫和适应性免疫中起关键作用的器官、细胞和分子的重要新发现。对于那些知道下一代疗法将来自于本次会议上展示的基础科学发现的精明的临床研究人员来说，这次会议也应该具有吸引力。经过时间考验的形式将包括该领域国际领导人的口头报告和其他与会者的海报介绍。会议的一个主要优点是，与会者呆在一个僻静的度假胜地，并在会议期间共享食物。这种完全沉浸式的氛围非常有利于各个层次的与会者进行深入讨论和合作。本次会议将作为2010年广泛关注基础免疫学的决定性小型会议。2010年FASEB关于“免疫系统生物学”的夏季会议与公众健康息息相关，因为它将成为顶尖科学家就免疫反应的基本方面进行思想交流的论坛。这些想法将推动开发更有效的疫苗和治疗过敏、自身免疫和移植排斥的方法。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This proposal requests partial support for the 2010 Federation of American Societies of Experimental Biology (FASEB) Summer Conference on the "Biology of the Immune System", which has been held every other summer for the past 22 years. The purpose of the meeting is to bring together basic immunologists from academia and the pharmaceutical industry at the professorial, post-doctoral and pre-doctoral levels to present and discuss cutting-edge research in basic immunology. The meeting will focus on important new discoveries concerning the organs, cells, and molecules that play key roles in innate and adaptive immunity. The conference should also be attractive to savvy clinical researchers who know that the next generation of therapies will come from the kind of basic science discoveries presented at this conference. The time-tested format will consist of oral presentations by international leaders in the field and poster presentations by other attendees. A major strength of the meeting is that the participants stay in a secluded resort and share meals for the length of the conference. This total immersion atmosphere is very conducive to in depth discussions and collaboration- building for attendees at all levels. This conference will serve as the definitive small meeting with a broad focus on basic immunology in 2010. The 2010 FASEB Summer Conference on the "Biology of the Immune System" is relevant to the public health because it will serve as a forum for the exchange of ideas among leading scientists about basic aspects of the immune response. These ideas are the engines that will drive the development of more effective vaccines and treatments for allergy, autoimmunity, and transplant rejection.