Vector Targeting Strategies for Therapeutic Gene Delivery

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory , Cold Spring Harbor, New York
March 11 - 14, 1999

Invited Speakers:

J. Martin Brown, Stanford University
George Georgiou, University of Texas
Nicholas Lemoine, Imperial Cancer Research Fund, UK
Ralph Weichselbaum, University of Chicago Hospitals
Kenneth Rock, University of Massachusetts Medical Center
Palo Monaci, IRBM, Italy
Renata Pasqualini, La Jolla Cancer Research Center
Willem Stemmer, Maxygen, Inc., Santa Clara
Victor Krasnykh, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Robert Hawkins, University of Manchester, UK
Frederick Hall, University of Southern California
Stephen Russell, The Mayo Clinic
Daniel Meruelo, New York University Medical Center
Esther Chang, Georgetown University
Ernst Wagner, Boehringer Ingelheim, Vienna, Austria
Jon Wolff, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Phil Felgner, Gene Therapy Inc., San Diego
Catherine Grillot-Courvalin, Institut Pasteur, France
Peter O'Hare, Marie Curie Research Institute, UK

Program:
You are cordially invited to submit abstracts for the second Cold Spring Harbor Winter Biotechnology Conference on vector targeting which is to be held at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory from the evening of Thursday March 11th till after lunch on Sunday March 14th, 1999. This conference will provide a forum for the presentation of the most recent advances in target definition technology and the rational design of targeted vectors for gene therapy. This unique forum is designed to stimulate future research studies in this important area and to promote interactions amongst researchers in diverse basic scientific areas relevant to this field.  Six oral presentation sessions and one poster session are planned. In addition to the invited speakers, the majority of speakers will be selected on the basis of the abstracts submitted. We strongly encourage submission of abstracts by junior researchers in the field.

Topics include:

Physiology-based targeting          
Microorganism display systems         
Transcriptional targeting                                     
Immune regulation for gene delivery  
Phage peptide display                    
Phage panning                                  
Env shuffling                                   
Targeted adenovirus                                                      
Targeted retrovirus                                                    
Targeted Sinbid virus                           
Targeted liposomes                                                      
Targeted DNA                                  
Targeted bacteria                          
HSV VP22 targeting

Registration :
Please note that attendance is limited to 175 participants.

We encourage you to register online.

Deadline for Abstracts: Deadline now past

Email for Requests and Registration: meetings@cshl.org