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The third 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 Wednesday September 3 (3pm), and end with a banquet on Friday evening, with departure on Saturday morning, September 6, 2008.

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:
Jeremy Farrar, University of Oxford, Vietnam

Discussion Leaders: `
Peter Brophy, Aberystwyth University, Wales
David Conway, MRC Laboratories, The Gambia
Martin Embley, Newcastle University, UK
Stacy Finkbeiner, Washington University in St. Louis, USA
Daniel Frank, University of Colorado at Bolder, USA
Elodie Ghedin, University of Pittsburgh, USA
John Gilleard, University of Glasgow, UK
Catherine Hill, Purdue University, USA
Robert Hirt, Institute for Cell & Molecular Biosciences, UK
Edward Holmes, PennState University, USA
Daniel Masiga, International Centre of Insect Physiology & Ecology, Nariobi, Kenya
William Petri, University of Virginia, USA
Gerd Pluschke, Swiss Tropical Institute, Switzerland
Maggie So, University of Arizona, USA
O. Colin Stine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, USA

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 25, 2008. 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* GBP545
Academic Package Double Occupancy* GBP470
Graduate/PhD Student Package Double Occupancy* GBP420
Corporate Package Single Occupancy* GBP690
Academic/Student No-Housing Package GBP350
Corporate No-Housing Package GBP455
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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