Immunity and Infection symposium 2011

16/11/2011

Busy busy day, but we are looking forward to tomorrow!! We hope you are too!

01/11/2011

Jolanda Smit werkt sinds 2003 aan haar eigen onderzoekslijn naar het dengue-virus (knokkelkoorts). “Bij de eerste infectie heb je grote kans op knokkelkoorts, vergelijkbaar met een ernstige griepinfectie. Daarna ben je beschermd tegen herinfectie door hetzelfde virus. Maar raak je geïnfecteerd met e...

31/10/2011

Nice link on the homepage :)

21/10/2011

Program second day 18 november http://www.iisymposium.com/18%20november.html

20/10/2011

Program first day 17 november http://www.iisymposium.com/test.html

11/10/2011

Check the new PV of this symposium! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATd37bOYFww

Throughout human history, people have strived to cure the diseases of their time. The last decades have seen remarkable successes. Nevertheless, there are st...

04/10/2011

New Speaker anounced: Kai Matuschewski http://www.iisymposium.com/SpeakerMatuschewski.html

Malaria continues to be the most important vector-borne infectious disease. It is caused by unicellular eukaryotes of the genus Plasmodium that have the unique capacity to invade and replicate within erythrocytes, terminally differentiated cells. Malaria pathology is caused exclusively by Plasmodium...

30/09/2011

Due to some problems with our website, this wasn't published earlier. Hope it is still some help to the students finishing their posters :)

Gratuitous advice on how to prepare posters for scientific meetings, research conferences, and similar gatherings of nerds who want to share their stuff on really big pieces of paper. With apologies, this page is really long and long-winded, but will give you the basics on how to make your poster a...

26/09/2011

Tip: when exporting a graph from Prism to a .jpg format, you can select the dpi yourself!

23/09/2011

Just shot the material for the promotion video :)

22/09/2011

We hope everyone uses the upcoming weekend to finish their scientific posters :)

20/09/2011

Victor Nizet (USCD) will give a talk about the exciting world of Innate Immune Resistance Mechanisms of Invasive Human Streptococcal Pathogens http://www.iisymposium.com/SpeakerNizet.html

Group A Streptococcus (GAS) and Group B Streptococcus (GBS) are important Gram-positive bacterial pathogens, each associated with a variety of mucosal and invasive human infections. GAS and GBS systemic disease reflects diverse abilities of these pathogens to resist clearance by the multifaceted def...