The first Australian Respiratory Virology Meeting

Venue:

Inspire Centre, Building 25
University of Canberra, Canberra

Date:

4-5^th December 2015

Organisers:

Reena Ghildyal, Kirsten Spann, Patrick Reading

About:

Despite a significant international reputation in respiratory virology, Australia does not have a scientific meeting dedicated to this important group of viruses.

In order to support Australian interdisciplinary research that spans laboratory basic research, development and clinical translation, it is imperative that scientists and clinicians working in the area are able to share their research and ideas in a collegial setting away from their primary workplace. The proposed biannual meeting aims to provide such a venue for scientists and clinicians working in the field of respiratory virology.

The meeting is also envisaged to be a showcase of work by early career researchers with a view to career progression. Learning from similar meetings in the USA and Europe, PhD students in their final years will be specially encouraged to present their work and provided with discounted registration and accommodation (dependent on funding).

International Speakers

Prof Peter Openshaw, Imperial College, London, UK

Peter Openshaw is Professor of Experimental Medicine at Imperial College London. He was appointed as an NIHR Senior Investigator in 2013 and became President of the British Society for Immunology in 2014, the first clinician to lead the organisation. Peter received the Chanock Award in 2012 for lifetime contribution to RSV research and invitation to deliver the Croonian lecture at the Royal College of Physicians in February 2013 on influenza pandemics. He was among the first 100 elected Fellows of the Academy of Medical Sciences (1999); he has been a member of the Faculty of 1000 in virology since 2002. Peter has published >125 papers with >9500 citations and an H index of 52.

Prof Ralph Tripp, University of Georgia, Athens, USA

Ralph Tripp is the University of Georgia, Georgia Research Alliance eminent scholar; a position he was recruited to in order to direct vaccine and anti-viral studies in the Animal Health Research Center. Ralph studied at the Emory University School of Medicine, then joined Nobel Laureate Peter Doherty's laboratory at St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital where he studied mechanisms of immune memory against respiratory viruses. Ralph later joined the centres for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta in the former Respiratory and Enteric Viruses Branch where he was section chief. He has studied influenza and respiratory virology for >15 years, and disease intervention strategies since 1989. Ralph has published >150 papers with >12500 citations and has an H index of 50.

Registration