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The fourth Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory/Wellcome Trust conference on Infections Disease Genomics and Global Health 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 Sunday September 12 (3pm), and end with a banquet on Tuesday evening, with departure on Wednesday morning, September 15, 2010.

The aim of the meeting is to explore how the recent progress in host, pathogen and vector genome data and other large data sets is changing the way we think about infectious diseases with an emphasis on global health issues.

Topics will include:
Genomics of neglected disease agents
Genotype-phenotype association
Population genetics and genomics
Epidemiology
Evolutionary Genomics

Discussion Leaders
Tim Anderson, Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research, USA
Cesar Arias, University of Texas Medical School, USA
Nora Besansky, University of Notre Dame, USA
David Conway, MRC Unit, The Gambia
Aparup Das, National Institute of Malaria Research, India
Nick Day, Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research, Thailand
Rob Heyderman, Malawi-Liverpool/Wellcome Trust, Malawi
Paul Keim, Northern Arizona University, USA
Laura Kramer, SUNY Albany, Wadsworth Center, USA
Dominic Kwiatkowski, Oxford University, Sanger Institute, UK
Kevin Marsh, KEMRI Wellcome Collaborative Research Program, Africa
Cameron Simmons, Hospital for Tropical Diseases, Vietnam
Joseph Vinetz, University of California, San Diego, 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 11, 2010. 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.

There are a limited number of monetary travel awards available to eligible graduate students and post docs who have registered and submitted abstracts for the Infectious Disease Genomics & Global Health meeting. Consideration will be given to those that apply by sending an email request to Val Pakaluk at pakaluk@cshl.edu

Pricing
Academic Package Single Occupancy* GBP570
Academic Package Double Occupancy* GBP490
Graduate/PhD Student Package Double Occupancy* GBP440
Corporate Package Single Occupancy* GBP725
Academic/Student No-Housing Package GBP370
Corporate No-Housing Package GBP480
Double Occupancy = Shared Accommodations

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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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