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The second Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory/Wellcome Trust conference on Genomic Perspectives to Host Pathogen Interactions will be held at the Wellcome Trust Conference Centre on the Wellcome Trust Genome Campus in Hinxton, UK. The meeting will begin in the afternoon of Thursday September 7 (3pm), and end with a banquet on Saturday evening, with departure on Sunday morning, September 10, 2006.

The focus for this conference is on how the rapid expansion in host, pathogen and vector genome data and other large data sets is changing the way we think about host-pathogen-(vector) interactions. Topics include:

PATHOGENS
free-living / facultative /
opportunistic / epizootic /
obligate / intracellular

HOST NICHE/DEFENSE
lung / GI / urogenital /
skin / muscle / CNS
blood / lymph / other

VECTORS
genomes / biology / ecology

Keynote Address:
Ron Fouchier, Erasmus University Medical Centre, The Netherlands

Discussion Leaders:
Siv Anderson, Uppsala University, Sweden
Judith Berman, University of Minnesota, USA
David Bird, North Carolina State University, USA
Mark Blaxter, University of Edinburgh, UK
Anthony James, University of California at Irvine, USA
Paul Keim, Northern Arizona University, USA
Michael Lehane, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UK
James Musser, The Methodist Hospital, USA
Timothy Palzkill, Baylor College of Medicine, USA
David Roos, University of Pennsylvannia, USA
Deborah Smith, University of York, UK
Brendan Wren, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK

The conference will bring together the leading scientists in this growing field, and we strongly encourage researchers interested in a variety of different hosts, pathogens and vectors to attend. As is usual for Cold Spring Harbor meetings, the majority of oral presentations will be drawn from openly submitted abstracts.

All registrations and abstracts MUST be submitted by the abstract deadline, June 14, 2006. Late registration may be accepted after the abstract deadline if the meeting is not oversubscribed. In the event of over subscription, every effort will be made to ensure that all groups who wish to participate will be represented. Status (talk/poster) of abstracts will be posted on our web site as soon as decisions have been made by the organizers.

Pricing
Academic Package Single Occupancy* GBP525
Academic Package Double Occupancy* GBP450
Graduate/PhD Student Package Double Occupancy* GBP450
Corporate Package Single Occupancy* GBP660
Academic/Student No-Housing Package GBP335
Corporate No-Housing Package GBP435
Double Occupancy = 2 Separate Beds

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Regular packages are all inclusive and cover registration, food, housing, parking, wine-and-cheese party, banquet, etc. No Housing packages include all costs except housing. Full payment is due 4 weeks prior to the meeting. Where applicable, payments will be processed using the daily exchange rate.

*Housing
Both single and double occupancy accomodation is available at Hinxton on a first-come-first-served basis. Once accomodations are full, delegates will be advised to make their own housing arrangements. The conference center will provide coaches for departure to airports and Central Cambridge only.
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