MOLECULAR AND IMMUNOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO VACCINE DESIGN
December 1 - 4, 2005
Abstract Deadline: October 12, 2005

Organizers:
Peter Beverley, Jenner Institute for Vaccine Research, UK
Emilio Emini, Wyeth Pharmaceuticals
Susan Swain, Trudeau Institute

Current Program

We are pleased to announce the fourth Cold Spring Harbor winter biotechnology conference on Molecular and Immunolo Approaches to Vaccine Design, which will begin at 7:30 pm on Thursday, December 1 and run through lunch on Sunday, December 4, 2005. We are looking forward to a broad-based meeting, and abstracts are welcomed on all scientific topics related to the design of novel vaccines, the immune response and delivery systems.

The format of the meeting will include six oral sessions consisting of invited and short talks, limited to approximately 15 minutes, principally on unpublished work. As usual at Cold Spring Harbor Meetings, all abstracts of both poster and platform sessions will be published in an abstract book given to all the participants.

Topics & Confirmed Speakers:

• Immunological Basis of Vaccine Immunity I
Antonio Lanzavecchia, Peter Cresswell,
Ruslan Medzhitov, Hao Shen

• Immunological Basis of Vaccine Immunity II
Susan Swain, Michel Nussenzwieg, Bruce Walker,
Eric Pamer

• Advances in Malaria and TB Vaccine Research
Allan Saul, Adrian Hill, Denise Doolan

• Respiratory Infections
David Woodland, Ralph Tripp, Kanta Subbarao

• HIV-1 Immunity and Vaccines
Persephone Borrow, Barney Graham, Dennis Burton,
J-M Andrieu

• New Vaccines and Underlying Immune Concepts
Eliav Barr, Peter Beverley, Kingston Mills

Abstracts should contain only new and unpublished material and must be submitted electronically by the abstract deadline. Selection of material for oral and poster presentation will be made by the organizers and individual session chairs. Status (talk/poster) of abstracts will be posted on our web site as soon as decisions have been made by the organizers.

We are eager to have as many young people as possible attend and have applied for funds from government and industry to partially support graduate students and postdocs. Apply in writing to meetings@cshl.edu stating need for financial support - preference is given to those submitting abstracts.

We look forward to seeing you at Cold Spring Harbor in December.

This conference is supported in part by funds provided by:

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Regular packages are all inclusive and cover registration, food, housing, parking, wine-and-cheese party, lobster banquet, etc. No Housing packages include all costs except housing. Full payment is due 4 weeks prior to the meeting.