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International Courses and Workshops
These courses, supported and organized through HHMI's International Program, provide scientists from around the world with advanced training in their fields and an opportunity to network with others in the international scientific community. The number and types of courses vary from year to year.
Advanced Laboratory Training Course:
Viral Subversion of Immune Response
June 7–18, 2009
Faculty of Medicine, University of Rijeka
Rijeka, Croatia
Organizers:
- Astrid Krmpotic, Faculty of Medicine, University of Rijeka, Croatia
- Stipan Jonjic, Faculty of Medicine, University of Rijeka, Croatia
- Ofer Mandelboim, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
The course will provide an intensive theoretical and practical overview of viral regulation of innate and acquired immune response. In addition to covering viruses that are relevant human pathogens, the workshop will also cover the recent results obtained in animal models of viral diseases. The following topics will be included: viral evasion of NK cells and host escape mechanisms, viral interference with cytokines and chemokines, viral interference with antibody-dependent antiviral response, viral subversion of antigen presentation to CD8+ T cells, the significance of herpes viral immunoevasins during chronic/latent infection, virus-induced immunosuppression with respect to the host susceptibility to other pathogens, the role of host and viral microRNAs in the regulation of immune response, and viral interference with dendritic cells and immunogenetics of mouse NK cell receptors with respect to resistance to herpes viruses.
In addition to keynote lectures that will be given by the leaders in the field, the practical workshop will take place in laboratories at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Rijeka. The course will be conducted in English.
The course is aimed at Ph.D. and postdoctoral level students. Up to 21 applicants will be selected to attend. The candidates from European countries are particularly encouraged to apply. Accommodation and meals will be provided for all students. There is no registration fee. All candidates must cover their own roundtrip travel expenses to Zagreb Airport or Rijeka Airport in Croatia.
Course faculty:
- Ofer Mandelboim (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)
- Hartmut Hengel (Heinrich-Heine-University, Duesseldorf, Germany)
- Martin Messerle (Hannover Medical School, Germany)
- Matthias Reddehase (Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany)
- Frank Kirchhoff (University of Ulm, Germany)
- Hans-Gustaf Ljunggren (Karolinska Institute, Sweden)
- Mathias Müller (University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Austria)
- William Britt (University of Alabama, USA)
- Silvia Vidal (McGill University, Canada)
- Marc Dalod (Center for Immunology of Marseille-Luminy, France)
- Branka Horvat (INSERM, Lyon, France)
- Bojan Polic (University of Rijeka, Croatia)
- Birgit Strobl (University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Austria)
- Stipan Jonjic (University of Rijeka, Croatia)
- Wayne Yokoyama (HHMI Investigator, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, USA)
- James Di Santo (Institut Pasteur, Paris, France)
- Geoffrey Shellam (University of Western Australia, Nedlands, Australia)
Applications are no longer being accepted. Notifications regarding acceptance will be made in mid-May 2009.
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