Dear all, We are pleased to invite you to the postponed Centre for Immunity, Infection and Evolution (CIIE) one-day symposium on 'Wild Immunology' in Edinburgh on Thursday, June 30th. We have a great list of diverse speakers and it should be an exciting day.
The aim of the symposium is to bring together researchers from diverse disciplines to address a central question in infectious disease biology and immunology: Why should we try to understand infection and immunity in wild systems? Specifically, how does the immune response operate in the wild and how does multiple co-infection and commensalism impact the immune response and host health in natural systems? We have a broad programme of speakers, ranging from laboratory immunologists to infectious disease ecologists, working on wild birds, wild and laboratory rodents, or wild sheep, and studying questions that range from the dynamics of co-infection, to how commensal organisms affect parasites and immune development. Our goal is to bring speakers of various expertise together to try and find meaningful ways to bring immunological tools to the study of wild populations. Speakers: • Judi Allen (University of Edinburgh) • Jan Bradley (University of Nottingham) • Mark Viney (University of Bristol) • Jim Kauffman (Cambridge University) • Andrea Graham (Princeton University) • Steve Paterson (University of Liverpool) • Ken Smith (Cambridge University) • Richard Grencis (University of Manchester) • Kathy McCoy (Bern University) • Peter Turnbaugh (Harvard University): If you'd like to attend, you need to register using the online registration form on the website http://ciie.bio.ed.ac.uk/. There’s a registration fee of £10. Lunch will be provided for all registered attendees. You can contact the organisers by e-mailing [email protected] We look forward to welcoming you on 30th June. Cheers, Amy Pedersen & Simon Babayan ------------------------------------------------------------ Amy B. Pedersen, Advanced Fellow Centre for Immunity, Infection and Evolution Institutes of Infection, Immunology Research and Evolutionary Biology University of Edinburgh Kings Buildings Ashworth Labs, West Mains Road Edinburgh EH9 3JT, UK [email protected] +44(0) 131 650 8674 Ashworth 2 - 4.07 http://www.biology.ed.ac.uk/research/groups/apedersen/
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