Suzhou, China
April 8-12, 2019
Abstract deadline: January 25, 2019
Organized by:
Elizabeth Hartland, Monash University, Australia
Kenya Honda, Keio University, Japan
Nina Salama, Fred Hutchison Cancer Research Center, USA
Feng Shao, National Institute of Biological Sciences, China
Jörg Vogel, Helmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection Research, Würzburg, Germany
We are pleased to announce the Cold Spring Harbor Asia conference on the Cold Spring Harbor Asia conference on Bacterial Infection & Host Defense which will be held in Suzhou, China, located approximately 60 miles west of Shanghai. The conference will begin at 7:00pm on the evening of Monday April 8, and will conclude after lunch on Friday April 12, 2019.
The conference will include eight oral sessions and one poster session covering the latest findings across many topics in bacterial infection. Many talks will be selected from the openly submitted abstracts on the basis of scientific merit and relevance. Social events throughout the conference provide ample opportunity for informal interactions.
Major Topics:
1. Bacterial intracellular trafficking
2. Gene expression & virulence traits in pathogenic microbes
3. Host response to bacterial infection
4. Gastrointestinal colonization
5. The microbiome in health & disease
6. Bacterial toxins & pathogenesis
7. New approaches to investigating the host-pathogen interface
8. Cancer-associated microbes
9. Antibiotic resistance & novel anti-infectives
Keynote Speakers (Speaker, Affiliation, COUNTRY/Region）:
Michael Gilmore, Harvard Medical School, USA
Scott Hultgren, Washington University School of Medicine, USA
Invited Speakers (Speaker, Affiliation, COUNTRY/Region）:
Neal Alto, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, USA
Gilad Bachrach, The Hebrew University-Hadassah School of Dental Medicine, ISRAEL
Clare Bryant, The University of Cambridge, UK
Dirk Bumann, University of Basel, SWITZERLAND
Franziska Faber, University of Wuerzburg, GERMANY
Youjun Feng, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, China
Yiping Han, Columbia University, USA
Elizabeth Hartland, University of Melbourne, AUSTRALIA
Birgitta Henriques-Normark, Karolinska Institutet, SWEDEN
Thomas Henry, Inserm, France
Jay Hinton, University of Liverpool, UK
Kenya Honda, Keio University / RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, JAPAN
Linda Kenney, University of Illinois, USA
Paul Kubes, University of Calgary, CANADA
Tomoko Kubori, Gifu University, JAPAN
Egil Lien, UMass Medical School, USA
Dena Lyras, Monash University, AUSTRALIA
Samuel Miller, University of Washington, USA
Indira Mysorekar, Washington University School of Medicine, USA
Anne O'Garra, The Francis Crick Institute, UK
Craig Roy, Yale University School of Medicine, USA
Nina Salama, Fred Hutchison Cancer Research Center, USA
Feng Shao, National Institute of Biological Sciences, CHINA
Nassos Typas, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, GERMANY
Jörg Vogel, Helmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection Research, GERMANY
Jianzhong Zhang, National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, CHINA
We encourage abstracts to contain new and unpublished materials. The abstracts must be submitted electronically by the abstract deadline. Selection of material for oral and poster presentation will be made by the organizers. Status (fellow's talk/poster) of abstracts will be posted on our web site as soon as decisions have been made by the organizers.