Science Researcher Update: Spotlight on Meetings, Conferences, and Events

 

Conference - Keystone, CO, United States

 

This FASEB Science Research Conference (SRC) focuses on exciting and groundbreaking research on viral, bacterial, fungal, prion, and protozoal pathogens. Importantly, regardless of their taxonomic differences, microbes confront similar barriers from the host innate and acquired immune systems. The conference sessions are organized by pathogenesis themes and each includes scientists from a variety of disciplines. As such, this is the only long-standing specialized international conference that regularly attracts virologists, bacteriologists, mycologists, parasitologists, immunologists and translational scientists. By convening together leading scientists with expertise in all areas of infectious disease, this conference optimizes information transfer, catalyzes provocative discussions, and fosters long-term cross disciplinary collaborations. This year, the program will include sessions on polymicrobial interactions, immune recognition, microbial adaptation to the host, chemical signaling and therapeutics, microbial manipulation of host cells, and drug resistance and tolerance. Talks will include new, state-of-the-art approaches to understanding microbial pathogenesis, including high throughput whole genome sequencing and approaches to genome analysis, advances in gene disruption and gene suppression technologies, and the capacity to observe infection of live hosts at high resolution. Finally, the relatively small size of the meeting, coupled with the diversity of fields, makes this an ideal meeting for young scientists to meet established investigators to begin to develop networks of support that will foster their career development.

 

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