We are pleased to announce the Cold Spring Harbor Asia conference on Mycobacterial Pathogenesis and Host Response which will be held in Suzhou, China, located approximately 60 miles west of Shanghai. The conference will begin at 7:00pm on the evening of Monday March 17, and will conclude after lunch on Friday March 21, 2025.

The conference will include eight oral sessions and one poster session covering the latest findings across many topics in Mycobacterial Pathogenesis and Host Response. Many talks will be selected from the openly submitted abstracts on the basis of scientific merit and relevance. Social events throughout the conference provide ample opportunity for informal interactions.

Major Topics:

1. Mycobacterial virulence

2. Innate and Acquired Immunity to mycobacterial infection, their protective role  and how mycobacteria evade and even exploit them

3. Key aspects of the pathogenesis of other bacteria that can inform thinking and  research in mycobacterial pathogenesis 

Keynote Speakers:

TBA

Invited Speakers:

Amy Barczak, Ragon Institute of Mass General, MIT, and Harvard

Marcel Behr, McGill University

Igor Brodsky, University of Pennsylvania

Patricia Champion, University of Notre Dame

Carl Feng, The University of Sydney

Baoxue Ge, Tongji University 

Michael Glickman,  Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK)

Zhengguo He, Wuhan University

Laurent Kremer, Université de Montpellier

Surakameth Mahasirimongkol, Ministry of Public Health

Michele Miller, Stellenbosch University

Branch Moody, Harvard Medical School

Jennifer Philips, Washington University in St. Louis

Lalita Ramakrishnan, University of Cambridge

Francisco Roca, Instituto Murciano de Investigación Biosanitaria

Amit Singh, Indian Institute of Science

Amit singhal, A*STAR

Andries Steyn, University of Alabama at Birmingham

Shumin Tan, Tufts University 

David Tobin, Duke University 

Kevin Urdahl, Seattle Children's Research Institute

Sho Yamasaki, Osaka University

Bo Yan, Fudan University 

Lu Zhang, ShanghaiTech University

And more...

We encourage abstracts to contain new and unpublished materials. The abstracts must be submitted electronically by the abstract deadline. Selection of material for oral and poster presentation will be made by the organizers. Status (fellow's talk/poster) of abstracts will be posted on our web site as soon as decisions have been made by the organizers. 

Fellowship: 
We are eager to have as many young people as possible attend since they are likely to benefit most from this meeting. A certain number of presentations by graduate students and postdocs in this conference will be selected as fellowship (USD $100-$500) awards. For more details, please visit  Stipends

We look forward to seeing you at Suzhou in March, 2025.