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The
next Annual Meeting of the American Society for Investigative Pathology will
be held April 1-5, 2006, in conjunction with
Experimental Biology 2006.
The venue is the
Moscone Convention Center, located at the core of downtown San Francisco in
a vibrant district of hotels, theaters, restaurants, museums, galleries, and
parks. The ASIP Program Committee has scheduled an exciting series of
events, including symposia, workshops, special sessions, and, as has become
a tradition, two full-day, focused “mini-conferences.” In 2006, the ASIP
Annual Meeting will be fully integrated with that of the
North American Vascular Biology Organization,
and the two societies have been working together closely to devise a program
that will appeal to the interests of all members.
We
are pleased that Dr. Joan Brugge of Harvard Medical School will mark the
first day of the meeting with a Keynote Address on Saturday evening. Our
2006 mini-conferences will focus on redox-mediated diseases and on
high-density lipoproteins, inflammation, and atherosclerosis. Both events
will integrate invited talks by leaders in the field with presentations
selected from submitted abstracts. Nationally and internationally
recognized investigators also will be speaking at our symposia, award
lectures, and workshops. Topics for symposia and award lectures include
epithelial to mesenchymal transition, stem cells and neuro-oncology,
regulation and dysregulation of innate immunity, development and function of
mast cells, and pathologists’ insights for systems biology. Workshops will
focus on the biology of liver growth and regeneration and provide an
introduction to bioinformatics for experimental biologists. Additional
sessions on animal diseases that provide insight into human pathology and on
the role of alveolar macrophages in interstitial lung disease have been
developed in conjunction with two of our guest societies, the
American College of Veterinary Pathologists
and the Pulmonary Pathology Society.
We also will be joined by the International
Society for Biological and Environmental Repositories and the
Association for Pathology
Informatics, both of which have recently become divisions of ASIP, as
well as the American Society for Matrix
Biology and the International
Society for Analytical and Molecular Morphology.
Our
program at EB2006 also will continue our tradition of reaching out to
trainees and young investigators through career development workshops,
sessions that showcase research by our trainee members, targeted merit and
travel awards, and a full-day course on essential concepts in pathobiology.
Of course, abstract-driven minisymposia and poster sessions are critical to
making our program as strong and timely as possible. We encourage you to
submit your abstracts to ASIP topic categories, which cover a broad range of
research areas related to investigative pathology. We look forward to
receiving your abstracts and to having you contribute to the success of what
promises to be an outstanding meeting in beautiful San Francisco. |
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