HARNESSING IMMUNITY
TO PREVENT AND TREAT DISEASE
November 16 - 19, 2011
Abstract Deadline: September 2, 2011

Organizers:
Bali Pulendran, Emory University
Robert Seder, Vaccine Research Center/NIH
Susan Swain, University of Massachusetts

Past Program

We are pleased to announce the Cold Spring Harbor winter biotechnology conference on Harnessing Immunity to Prevent and Treat Disease , which will begin at 7:30 pm on Wednesday, November 16 and run through lunch on Saturday, November 19, 2011. 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include six oral sessions consisting of invited and short talks, limited to approximately 15 minutes, principally on unpublished work.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:
TLR mediated control of adaptive immunity
Decision making in memory cell differentiation
Innate programming of adaptive immunity
Organ specific immunity
Microbiome immune interactions
Human Immunology

Keynote Speaker
Craig Thompson, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Invited Speakers:
Yasmine Belkaid, National Institute of Allergy and Infections Diseases
Mark Davis, HHMI, Stanford University School of Medicine
Andrew Gerwitz, Emory University School of Medicine
Laura Haynes, Trudeau Institute
Adrian Hill, Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics
Lora Hooper, UT Southwestern Medical Center
Susan Kaech, Yale University
Antonio Lanzavecchia, Institute for Research in Biomedicine
Dan Littman, NYU School of Medicine and HHMI
David Masopust, University of Minnesota
Erika Pearce, Trudeau Institute
Barry Rouse, University of Tennessee
Rafick Sekaly, Hospital Saint-Luc Montreal, Canada
Shannon Turley, Dana Farber Cancer Institute

Abstracts should contain only new and unpublished material and must be submitted electronically by the abstract deadline.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 November.

This conference may be supported in part by funds provided by:
National Institutes of Health

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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.