GENE EXPRESSION & SIGNALING IN THE IMMUNE SYSTEM
April 22 - 26, 2008
Abstract Deadline: January 30, 2008

Organizers:
Doreen Cantrell, University of Dundee, UK
Richard Flavell, HHMI/Yale University School of Medicine
Mark Schlissel, University of California Berkeley
Stephen Smale, UCLA School of Medicine

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We are pleased to announce the fourth Cold Spring Harbor meeting on Gene Expression & Signaling in the Immune System, which will begin on Tuesday evening, April 22 and end at noon on Saturday, April 26, 2008. We are looking forward to a broad-based meeting, and abstracts are welcomed on all scientific topics related to immune system gene expression and signaling. In addition to a strong focus on lymphocyte development and adaptive immunity, this year's meeting will also emphasize the molecular regulation of innate immune responses.

Topics:
Stem Cells and Early Developmental Decisions
Regulation of Immune Cell Development
Chromatin Structure and Epigenetic Regulation
Antigen Receptor Gene Assembly and Modification
Signal Transduction in Immune Cells
Regulation of Lymphocyte Function I
Regulation of Lymphocyte Function II
Innate Immunity

Invited Speakers:
David Baltimore, California Institute of Technology
Yehudit Bergman, The Hebrew Univ. Medical School, Israel
Meinrad Busslinger, University of Vienna, Austria
Mark Davis, Stanford University School of Medicine/HHMI
Michael Dustin, NYU School of Medicine
Katia Georgopoulos, Massachusetts General Hospital
Sankar Ghosh, Yale University Medical School
Laurie Glimcher, Harvard School of Public Health
Rudolf Grosschedl, Max-Planck-Institute, Freiburg, Germany
Cynthia Guidos, Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute
Alexander Hoffmann, University of California, San Diego
Dimitris Kioussis, National Institute for Medical Research, UK
Michael Krangel, Duke University Medical Center
Dan Littman, Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine/HHMI
Tak Mak, University of Toronto
Ruslan Medzhitov, Yale University/HHMI
Cornelis Murre, University of California, San Diego
Michael Neuberger, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, UK
Michel Nussenzweig, Rockefeller University/HHMI
Stephen Nutt, The Walter & Eliza Hall Institute, Australia
Marjorie Oettinger, Massachusetts General Hospital
Klaus Rajewsky, Harvard Medical School
Anjana Rao, Harvard Medical School
David Raulet, University of California, Berkeley
Steven Reiner, University of Pennsylvania
Michael Reth, University of Freiburg, Germany
Tannishtha Reya, Duke University Medical Center
Alexander Rudensky, University of Washington/HHMI
Sarah Russell, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Australia
David Schatz, Yale Medical School/HHMI
Ranjan Sen, NIA/NIH
Harinder Singh, University of Chicago/HHMI
Jane Skok, NYU Medical Center
Brigitta Stockinger, MRC Nat'l Institute for Med. Research, UK
Tadatsugu Taniguchi, University of Tokyo, Japan
Alexander Tarakhovsky, The Rockerfeller University
Irving Weissman, Stanford University School of Medicine
Christopher Wilson, University of Washington
Keji Zhao, NHLBI, NIH

The format of the meeting will include eight oral sessions and two poster sessions. Each oral session will include invited speakers and speakers selected from submitted abstracts. For this reason, abstracts from accomplished junior and senior investigators are warmly invited. The abstracts should focus on new and unpublished data. The organizers will select abstracts for oral or poster presentations. The status (talk/poster) of abstracts will be posted on our web site (below) as soon as decisions have been made. We have applied for funds from government and industry to partially support graduate students and postdocs.

We hope to see you at Cold Spring Harbor in April.

This conference is supported in part by funds provided by:
National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health

We have funds to provide partial scholarships for individuals who are US citizens/permanent residents from minority groups under-represented in the life sciences. Please provide justification in writing to meetings@cshl.edu and state your financial needs. Preference will be given to those applying who submit abstracts to the meeting.

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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.