Wild immunology: converging on the real world.
Recently, the Centre for Immunity, Infection and Evolution sponsored a one-day symposium entitled "Wild Immunology." The CIIE is a new Wellcome Trust-funded initiative with the remit to connect evolutionary biology and ecology with research in immunology and infectious diseases in order to gain an interdisciplinary perspective on challenges to global health. The central question of the symposium was, "Why should we try to understand infection and immunity in wild systems?" Specifically, how does the immune response operate in the wild and how do multiple coinfections and commensalism affect immune responses and host health in these wild systems? The symposium brought together a broad program of speakers, ranging from laboratory immunologists to infectious disease ecologists, working on wild birds, unmanaged animals, wild and laboratory rodents, and on questions ranging from the dynamics of coinfection to how commensal bacteria affect the development of the immune system. The meeting on wild immunology, organized by Amy Pedersen, Simon Babayan, and Rick Maizels, was held at the University of Edinburgh on 30 June 2011.
Centre for Immunity, Infection and Evolution, Institute of Immunology and Infection Research, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Ashworth Laboratories, Kings Buildings, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
Simon A
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Babayan
Judith E
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Allen
Jan E
JE
Bradley
Markus B
MB
Geuking
Andrea L
AL
Graham
Richard K
RK
Grencis
Jim
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Kaufman
Kathy D
KD
McCoy
Steve
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Paterson
Kenneth G C
KG
Smith
Peter J
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Turnbaugh
Mark E
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Viney
Rick M
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Maizels
Amy B
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Pedersen
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