We are pleased to announce the Cold Spring Harbor Asia conference on Microbiome and Barrier Immunity 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 October 27, and will conclude after lunch on Friday October 31, 2025.
The conference will include eight oral sessions and one poster session covering the latest findings across many topics in Microbiome and Barrier Immunity. 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. Barrier surface: skin, lung, gut, BBB
2. Microbiome & tumor
3. Molecular mechanisms of host & microbe cross-talks
4. Infection
5. Neuron-immune barrier
Keynote Speakers:
Kenya Honda, Keio University / RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences
Kathy McCoy, University of Calgary
Invited Speakers:
Isabelle Arnold Wallén, University of Zurich
Gabrielle Belz, University of Queensland
Ken Cadwell, University of Pennsylvania
Nadine Cerf-Bensussan, French National Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM)
Isaac Chiu, Harvard Medical School
Xinzhong Dong, Johns Hopkins University
Sidonia Fagarasan, RIKEN Yokohama Institute
Jennifer Gommerman, University of Toronto
Gunnar C. Hansson, Unversity of Gothenburg
Nicola Harris, Monash University
Adrian Hayday, The Francis Crick Institute
Xiaoyu Hu, Tsinghua university
Ai Ing Lim, Princeton University
Laura Mackay, University of Melbourne
Lisa Mielke, The Olivia Newton-John Cancer Research Institute
Kazuyo Moro, Osaka University
Oliver Pabst, RWTH Aachen University
Simon Phipps, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute
Gwendalyn Randolph, Washington University in St. Louis
Xinyang Song, Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, CAS
Jenny Ting, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chuan Wu, National Cancer Institute
Heping Xu, Westlake University
Jie Zhou, Tianjin Medical University
We encourage abstracts to contain new and unpublished materials.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.
Fellowship:
We are eager to have as many young people as possible attend since they are likely to benefit most from this meeting. A certain number of presentations by graduate students and postdocs in this conference will be selected as fellowship (USD $100-$500) awards. For more details, please visit Stipends
We look forward to seeing you at Suzhou in October, 2024.