31st Annual Symposium on Nonhuman Primate Models for AIDS

说明（由申请人提供）：本资助申请旨在获得部分资金，用于计划、组织、宣传和举办第31届非人类灵长类动物艾滋病模型年度研讨会。本次研讨会是一个重要的科学论坛，旨在促进新的研究成果、思想和方向的传播和交流，并鼓励利用非人灵长类动物（NHPs）从事艾滋病毒/艾滋病研究的研究人员加强合作。该会议是世界上唯一的此类会议，召集了一个国际科学家小组，他们的研究重点是研究NHP模型中的自然和实验性免疫缺陷病毒感染，以及开发疫苗和替代感染预防策略以及新的治疗方案。耶基斯国家灵长类动物研究中心将于2013年11月3日至6日在亚特兰大巴克黑德JW万豪酒店举办2013年研讨会。Drs。Rama Amara和Stuart Zola将担任科学联合主席，科学计划委员会和组织委员会的成员将为他们提供支持。研讨会计划包括四个为期半天的科学会议，包括“潜伏期和储存库”，“自然宿主/新模型”，“发病机制/早期事件”和“疫苗/免疫学”，以及两个为期四分之一天的科学会议，“病毒宿主相互作用”和“治疗/杀微生物剂”。今年，我们将为该计划提供创新的补充，以利用我们广泛的当地科学专业知识。我们将举办三场连续60分钟的“专家见面会”分组会议（“猕猴的树突状细胞分析”、“非人类灵长类基因组学”和“猕猴与人类的免疫原性比较”），并在每次科学会议结束时由会议主席进行“结论和要点”总结。研讨会还将为当地科学教师提供教育外展培训。研讨会将以分组会议开始。接下来是欢迎招待会和主讲人演讲。接下来的两天半将举办科学会议以及海报招待会和宴会。由16名成员组成的科学计划委员会将审查摘要，并为每次科学会议分配口头和海报报告。委员会还将向博士后和研究生中最有价值的摘要颁发奖学金。除了任何R13拨款支持外，注册费和企业赞助将帮助支付研讨会的费用和资金。我们相信，从这次研讨会获得的知识将阐明艾滋病毒和SIV如何引起疾病，并将使我们更接近开发有效的艾滋病疫苗以及控制/治愈艾滋病毒感染的新疗法。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This grant application is to obtain funds to partially support planning, organizing, publicizing and hosting the 31st Annual Symposium on Nonhuman Primate Models for AIDS. This symposium is a critical scientific forum that facilitates the dissemination and exchange of new research findings, ideas and directions, and encourages increased collaboration among investigators engaged in HIV/AIDS research using nonhuman primates (NHPs). The meeting, the only one of its kind in the world, convenes an international group of scientists whose research focuses on the study of natural and experimental immunodeficiency virus infections in NHP models as well as on the development of vaccines and alternate infection-prevention strategies and novel therapeutic options. The Yerkes National Primate Research Center will host the 2013 Symposium November 3-6, 2013, at the JW Marriot Atlanta Buckhead Hotel. Drs. Rama Amara and Stuart Zola will serve as Scientific Co-Chairs, and members of the Scientific Program Committee and the Organizing Committee will support them. The symposium program will comprise four half-day scientific sessions including "Latency and Reservoirs," "Natural hosts/New models," "Pathogenesis/Early events" and "Vaccines/Immunology," and two quarter-day scientific sessions, "Virus host interactions" and "Therapy/Microbicides." This year, we are offering innovative additions to the program to leverage our extensive local scientific expertise. We will host three consecutive 60-minute "Meet the Expert" breakout sessions ("Dendritic cell analyses in macaques," "Nonhuman primate genomics" and "Comparing immunogenicity in macaques and humans"), and we will implement "Conclusions and Takeaways" summaries by the session chairs at the conclusion of each scientific session. The symposium will also offer an educational outreach training session for local science teachers. The Symposium will begin with the breakout sessions. Following these will be the welcome reception and keynote speaker presentation. The next two and a half days will feature the scientific sessions as well as a poster reception and banquet. The 16-member Scientific Program Committee will review abstracts and assign oral and poster presentations for each of the scientific sessions. The committee will also award fellowships to the most meritorious abstracts from postdoctoral fellows and graduate students. In addition to any R13 grant support, registration fees and corporate sponsorship will help defray costs and fund the symposium. We are confident the knowledge gained from this symposium will shed light on how HIV and SIV cause disease and will bring us steps closer to developing an effective AIDS vaccine as well as novel therapies to control/cure HIV infection.