2011 Tropical Infectious Diseases Gordon Research Conference

描述（由申请人提供）：本提案要求部分支持将于2010年3月13日至18日在德克萨斯州加尔维斯顿举行的戈登研究会议系列会议“热带传染病：从实验室到实地”。会议的广泛和长期目标是增加我们对宿主-病原体-媒介相互作用的了解，以期为控制热带传染病（TIDs）提供新的见解。这次会议的具体目标是召集33名代表被忽视的热带病研究关键领域的发言者，共150名与会者，在一个相对孤立、轻松的环境中举行为期五天的会议。该计划将以两个主题演讲开始，讨论目前全球对传染病研究的需求。会议将集中讨论最近取得重大进展的疾病和具有最高医学重要性的疾病。会议将涵盖虫媒病毒病、霍乱、丝虫病、利什曼病、疟疾、立克次体病和锥虫病。每次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，并结合现场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，讨论未来TID研究的优先事项，强调如何探索寄生虫生物学用于疾病控制和疫苗开发的挑战。两个下午的海报会议将允许所有参与者对这些主题作出贡献。这一应用的意义在于，戈登tid研究会议提供了一个论坛，汇集了国际研究界关于局部疾病的多学科成员。其目的是促进从基础问题到应用问题的讨论，并在建立一个对tid感兴趣的科学家社区的同时，在不同的专业和知识领域之间产生“交叉施肥”。这一应用与健康的关系在于，讨论将界定基础科学中的重要问题，因为这些问题与控制最重要的热带病的新战略的发展有关。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This proposal requests partial support for a meeting on "Tropical Infectious Diseases: from bench to field" as part of the Gordon Research Conference series to be held in Galveston, Texas, March 13-18, 2010. The broad and long-term goal of the conference is to increase our understanding of 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 33 speakers representing critical areas of neglected tropical disease research with a total of 150 participants for a five-day conference in a relatively isolated, relaxed setting. The program will open with two keynote presentations addressing present global needs for infectious disease research. The conference will focus on the diseases for which most significant recent progress is being made and on those of the highest medical importance. The sessions will cover arboviral diseases, cholera, filariases, leishmaniasis, malaria, rickettsioses and trypanosomiasis. Each session 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 addressing the priorities for future TID research, emphasizing how parasite biology can be explored for disease control and the challenges of vaccine development. Two afternoon poster sessions will permit all participants to contribute to these topics. The significance of this application is that the Gordon Research Conference on TIDs provides a forum that brings together multidisciplinary members of the international research community on topical diseases. The intent is to promote discussions from basic to applied questions and to generate 'cross-fertilization' among different specialties and fields of knowledge while establishing a community of scientists interested in TIDs. The health relatedness of this application is that the discussions will define the important questions on basic science as they relate to the development of new strategies to control the most important tropical diseases. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Approximately 1 billion people - one sixth of the world's population - suffer from one or more tropical infectious diseases. This Tropical Infectious Diseases (TIDs) Gordon Research Conference will bring together scientists working on the most prevalent TIDs and cover topics ranging from laboratory research to field-based applications. The health relatedness of this application is that the gathering of top scientists working in different but related fields will stimulate the generation of new ideas and foster cross-discipline collaboration with the aim of accelerating progress toward the control and elimination of TIDs.