2015 Immunity to Veterinary Pathogens: Informing Vaccine
Development (A3) Meeting
By Renukaradhya Gourapura (Aradhya), The Ohio State University
A four day long unique meeting to learn comprehensively on progress in the field of veterinary
immunology to pathogens and the current advancement in veterinary vaccine development will
be held on January 20–25, 2015, Keystone Resort, Colorado, USA.
This conference will provide information on the value of studying immune responses to
infectious disease in animals, aimed to develop control measures against diseases and
advance knowledge in vaccine development which is applicable to improve animal health and
biomedical research interests to improve human health. The broad topics of the meeting
sessions includes: (i) The Role of γ/δ T Cells in Innate and Acquired Immunity; (ii) Two
workshops on - High-Throughput Antigen Identification for Vaccine Formulations and
Assessment of Adaptive Immune Responses in Analyzing Vaccine Performance. Other major
areas of presentations includes: Innate Responses to Infection; Mucosal Immune Responses to
Infection; Immune Responses to Swine and Avian Influenza; Analysis of Immune Responses to
Vector-Borne Pathogens; Immunodeficiency Virus Infections in Veterinary Species; Immune
Responses to Mycobacterium Infection; and Veterinary Vaccines for the 21st Century.
In this meeting renowned veterinary immunologists are invited from all around the world, and
they will be delivering talks on their respective areas of expertise. USA: Linda J. Saif, Wendy C.
Brown, Mark Jutila, Randy E. Sacco, Janice C. Telfer, William T. Golde, David Pascual, Jayne
Raper, Robert H. Mealey, Simon M. Barratt-Boyes, Sue VandeWoude, Paul M. Coussens, Ray
Waters. UK: John Hammond, David Hume, Maria Montoya, Ivan Morrison, H. Martin
Vordermeier, Tim Connelley, Jayne C. Hope. Kenya: Vish Nene. Switzerland: Artur
Summerfield. Italy: Massimo Amador. Austria: Armin Saalmüller. Belgium: Kristien Van Reeth.
Mexico: Jesus Hernandez.
In addition to the above listed invited speakers several other distinguished professors,
scientists, faculty, postdocs, and graduate and DVM students from both academic universities
and industries will be participating and presenting their research results in the meeting. There
will also be poster sessions and selected abstract oral presentations in the meeting. The
American Association of Veterinary Immunologists (AAVI) will be actively involved in this
international meeting, and it strongly encourages all the veterinary immunoglists in the US and
postdoc and graduate students to participate in the meeting.