Meeting organizers
Peter Palese, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
Adolfo García-Sastre, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
Lakshmi Goyal, Editor, Cell Host & Microbe
Julie Stacey, Senior Editor, Immunity
Influenza meeting summary
Given the recent influenza pandemic, the last 12 months have seen a flurry of activity in the area of flu research. New insights are being gained about the biology of the virus, the host immune response, and the ability of the virus to overcome species barriers and host-immune defenses. The broader goal of influenza research is to extrapolate these basic insights for better control of disease, and to develop better vaccines and anti-viral therapeutics. This meeting aims to foster interactions among a broad group of scientists studying the influenza virus from multiple perspectives including: the virus itself, the host response to viral infection, the clinical manifestations of pandemic and seasonal influenza, as well as those scientists actively working to develop better vaccines and therapeutics in an industrial setting.
This meeting aims to bring basic scientists, clinicians, epidemiologists and applied biotechnology and pharmaceutical researchers together to build a translational bridge between basic influenza research and the development of drugs, vaccines and diagnostics for the flu.
Confirmed Speakers
Rafi Ahmed, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA
Adolfo Garcia-Sastre, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY
Ronald Germain, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH, Bethesda, MD
Frederick G Hayden, The Wellcome Trust, London and University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
Akiko Iwasaki, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT
Yoshihiro Kawaoka, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA and The University of Tokyo, Japan
Hans-Dieter Klenk, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany
Marc Lipsitch, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA
Jonathan McCullers, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN
Peter Palese, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY
Megan Shaw, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY
Kanta Subbarao, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH, Bethesda, MD
Terrence Tumpey, Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, Atlanta, GA
David Woodland, Trudeau Institute, Saranac Lake, NY
Makoto Yamashita, Biological Research Laboratories IV, Daiichi Sankyo Co. Ltd., Tokyo, Japan
Call for abstracts
Please submit abstracts for presentation at the symposium by July 31, 2010.
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