细菌感染和宿主防御冷泉港亚洲会议

We are pleased to announce the Cold Spring Harbor Asia conference on Bacterial Infection and Host Defense, which will be held at the Suzhou Dushu Lake Conference Center in Suzhou, China, located approximately 60 miles west of Shanghai. The conference will begin at 7:00pm on the evening of Monday November 18, and will conclude after the lunch on Friday November 22, 2013.

The conference will include eight oral sessions and one poster session. 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 effectors and host defense signaling
2. Genetic regulation of bacterial virulence
3. Trafficking of intracellular bacterial pathogens
4. Structural biology of bacteria-host interaction
5. Pore forming toxins and large exotoxins
6. Autophagy in host defense against infection
7. Inflammasome in host defense against infection
8. Emerging concepts in virulence mechanism and cytosolic innate immunity

Keynote Speakers:
Thomas F. Meyer, Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Germany
Abstract title: TBA