Cold Spring Harbor Asia Conference on Infection & Immunity

Conference Information

Location: Suzhou Dushu Lake Conference Center, Suzhou, China

Dates: September 8 - 12, 2011

Abstract Deadline: July 20, 2011

Organizers:

• Shizuo Akira, Osaka University, Japan
• Xuetao Cao, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, China
• Genhong Cheng, University of California Los Angeles, USA
• Luke O'Neill, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

Conference Overview

We are pleased to announce the Cold Spring Harbor Asia conference on Infection & Immunity, which will be held at the Suzhou Dushu Lake Conference Center in Suzhou, China. The conference will commence at 7:00pm on the evening of Thursday September 8, 2011, and conclude after lunch on Monday September 12, 2011.

This conference maintains the essence of the renowned Cold Spring Harbor NY meetings series, now in its 76th year. It will feature eight oral sessions and one poster session, covering the latest findings across various topics in infection and immunity research. Talks will be selected from openly submitted abstracts based on scientific merit and relevance.

Major Topics

• Pattern recognition and innate immunity
• Innate immune signaling
• Stem cell and immune development
• Transcriptional control of immune response
• Immune response to viral infections
• Immune response to bacterial infections
• Vaccines against infections

Keynote Speaker and Presentation Title

• David Baltimore (California Institute of Technology, USA): Control of NF-kB-activated Transcription

Confirmed Invited Speakers and their Presentation Titles

• Rafi Ahmed (Emory University School of Medicine, USA): Immunological Memory
• Shizuo Akira (Osaka University, JAPAN): Regnase-1, a zinc finger domain containing nuclease involved in IL-6mRNA degradation
• Antonio Bertoletti (Singapore Institute for Clinical Sciences, SINGAPORE): Strategies to Restore Defective Virus-specific Immunity in chronic HBV infection
• Michael Bevan (Howard Hughes Medical Inst., U. Washington, USA): Controlling CD8 Responses in the Presence and Absence of Inflammation
• Jeremy Boss (Emory University, USA): Transcription and epigenetic regulation of programmed death-1 during viral infection and T cell activation
• Andrew Bowie (Trinity College Dublin, IRELAND): The ‘how’ and ‘why’ of intracellular DNA sensing by the innate immune system
• Xuetao Cao (Chinese Academy of Medcial Sciences, CHINA): Cross-regulation of innate immune response
• Zhijian (James) Chen (UTSW Medical Center/HHMI, USA): MAVS – A Marvelous Mitochondrial Anti-Viral Signaling Protein
• Genhong Cheng (University of California Los Angeles, USA): Crosstalk between innate immune response to viral infection and host metabolism
• Takashi Fujita (Kyoto University, JAPAN): Non-self RNA Sensing Mechanism of RIG-I Helicase and Activation of Antiviral Immune Responses
• Laurie Glimcher (Harvard School of Public Health, USA): Viral replication and its detection by RIG-I-Like Receptors: Formation of RIG-I granules and signal transduction through mitochondrion
• Veit Hornung (Universitätsklinikum Bonn, USA): Intracellular DNA sensing
• Shigeo Koyasu (Keio University School of Medicine, JAPAN): Natural helper cell and the type-2 innate immune responses
• Atsushi Kumanogoh (Osaka University, WPI Immunology Frontier Research Center, JAPAN): Regulation of Immune Cell Responses by Semaphorins and Their Receptors
• Claude Leclerc (Institute Pasteur, FRANCE): New paradigms for the development of efficient vaccines for adults and neonates
• Foo Y Liew (University of Glasgow, UK): The role of novel cytokines in Infection and Immunity
• Yong-Jun Liu (University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center, USA): Identification of nucleic acid sensors in dendritic cells
• Andrew McMichael (John Radcliffe Hospital, UK): Virus escape from early immune responses in acute HIV infection
• Jeffrey Miller (University of California, Los Angeles, USA): Diversity-Generating Retroelements
• Luke O'Neill (Trinity College Dublin, IRELAND): Sensing and restoring homeostasis in Innate Immunity
• Daniel Portnoy (University of California, Berkeley, USA): Forward genetics to identify microbial components that activate host cytosolic surveillance pathways
• Ichiro Taniuchi (RIKEN, Research Center for Allergy and Immunology, JAPAN): TRANSCRIPTIONAL AND EPIGENETIC CONTROL OF CD4/CD8 LINEAGE CHOICE
• Jenny Ting (University of North Carolina, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, USA): NLRs in ancient and modern diseases
• Yumei Wen (Fudan University, Shanghai Medical College, CHINA): Therapeutic vaccines – Bridging basic immunology with clinical medicine
• Owen Witte (HHMI / University of California at Los Angeles, USA): Imaging Cancer and the Immune Response with Positron Emission Tomography
• Sho Yamasaki (Medical Institute of Bioregulation, Kyushu University, JAPAN): Regulation of immune responses through C-type lectin Mincle

Contact Information

Cold Spring Harbor Asia Conferences

Mike Ji

Suzhou Dushu Lake Conference Center

No.299 Qiyue Road

SIP/ Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, China

Phone: +86 512 6272 9029

Fax: +86 512 6272 9028

E-mail: mikeji@csh-asia.org