GENE EXPRESSION & SIGNALING IN THE IMMUNE SYSTEM
April 21 - 25, 2010
Abstract Deadline: January 29, 2010

Organizers:
Doreen Cantrell, University of Dundee, UK
Sankar Ghosh, Columbia University, College of P&S
Dan Littman, HHMI/Skirball Institute, NYU School of Medicine
Mark Schlissel, University of California Berkeley

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We are pleased to announce the fifth Cold Spring Harbor meeting on Gene Expression & Signaling in the Immune System, which will begin on Wednesday evening, April 21 and end at noon on Sunday, April 25, 2010. 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 cell fate 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
*Innate immunity

Confirmed Speakers:
Ioannis Aifantis, New York Cancer Institute
Frederick Alt, HHMI/Childrens Hospital
Greg Barton, University of California, Berkeley
Meinrad Busslinger,Research Inst of Molecular Pathology, Austria
Mark Davis, HHMI/Stanford University School of Medicine
Richard Flavell, Yale University School of Medicine
Sarah Gaffen, University of Pittsburgh
Laurie Glimcher, Harvard School of Public Health
Gillian Griffiths, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, UK
Rudolf Grosschedl, Max Planck Inst. of Immunology, Germany
Jules Hoffmann, Inst.de Biologie Moleculaire et Cellulaire, France
Kristin Hogquist, University of Minnesota
Michael Lieber, University of Southern California
Tak Mak, Ontario Cancer Institute, Canada
Diane Mathis, Harvard Medical School
Ruslan Medzhitov, HHMI/Yale University
Matthias Merkenschlager, MRC Clinical Sciences Centre, UK
Kenneth Murphy, Washington University School of Medicine
Cornelis Murre, University of California, San Diego
Michel Nussenzweig, HHMI/Rockefeller University
Klaus Rajewsky, Harvard Medical School
Anjana Rao, Center for Blood Research/Harvard Medical School
Alexander Rudensky, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Federica Sallusto, Inst. for Research in Biomedicine, Switzerland
David Schatz, HHMI/Yale Medical School
Pamela Schwartzberg, National Institutes of Health
Harinder Singh, HHMI/University of Chicago
Jane Skok, NYU Medical Center
Barry Sleckman, Washington University School of Medicine
Stephen Smale, UCLA School of Medicine
Alexander Tarakhovsky, The Rockefeller University
Art Weiss, HHMI/University of California San Francisco
Keji Zhao, National Heart Lung & Blood Institute

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 and Research & Diagnostic Systems, Inc.

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.