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The Fourth International Rushmore Conference on Enteric Diseases: Methods for Protection from Infection will be held December 3-4 in Chicago, IL at the Marriott Hotel on the Miracle Mile, immediately preceding the Annual Conference of Research Workers in Animal Diseases (CRWAD) meeting.<P> The conference is being organized by the multistate Agricultural Experiment Station Committee: NC-1041: Enteric Diseases of Swine and Cattle: Prevention, Control and Food Safety. It is intended to draw researchers from the Biomedical and Veterinary Medical communities to discuss challenges and opportunities of mutual interest.<P> The purpose for the meeting is to provide continuing education for researchers of animal and human disease and food safety; to stimulate the generation of novel ideas for resolution of enteric and food-borne diseases problems; and to foster cross-disciplinary collaborations for efficiently facilitating research of a high quality<P> . The conference theme was specifically selected to draw participants towards concrete solutions to existing enteric disease issues including the development of novel vaccine technologies and other approaches to disease prevention or treatment. Invited conference speakers have been drawn from both the biomedical and the veterinary medical research communities and are all internationally recognized scientists. Opportunities will be available for conference participants to make oral or poster presentations as well. The grant requested funding to cover speaker expenses only.
Non-Technical Summary: <BR>Enteric, or diarrheal diseases remain a major health problem for domestic food-producing animals, as well as for Human Beings world-wide. Some such diseases arise from animal to animal, or person to person contact. Others result from contaminated food or water, or by inter-species contact such as by human contact with cattle. Disease outcomes range from transient illness to life threatening conditions with long-term health consequences among survivors. Methods for treatment and/or prevention are limited, and in most cases, effective vaccines are not available. Some of these diseases cross species barriers while others do not. In all cases the disease syndromes are similar as are the methods by which the pathogen attacks the host. For that reason, there is great value in communication between scientists studying individual enteric pathogens, and between veterinary researchers and biomedical researches. The purpose of the International Rushmore Conferences is to bring investigators from a variety of interests and backgrounds together to discuss common challenges in an effort of identifying common solutions. The goals of this conference include improved communication between researchers from different backgrounds, stimulating the development of inter-institutional collaborations, and creating a greater appreciation among biomedical researchers of the availability of valuable large-animal biomedical models for infectious disease research. <P> Approach: <BR> Conference Announcements: Outreach to attendees of previous Rushmore Conferences Organization Websites: Conference of Research Workers in Animal Diseases American Society for Microbiology Personal Contact: E-mail contact of investigators who have recently published in areas to be addressed by the conference Additional funding (for non-speaker meeting support): Relevant industry contacts Meeting Outline: Session 1: Challenges in addressing Enteric Pathogens Pathogen-specific challenges will be addressed in seven invited 30-minute addresses Session 2: General Strategies for Disease Prevention Various approaches and tools, for disease prevention will be addressed. This session will include three 40-minute presentations by invited speakers and five 20-minute presentations selected from among submitters of abstracts Session 3: Overview presentation and Poster session. The overview presentation (45 minutes) will be the conference's keynote address. Poster presentations will be by a single PowerPoint slide described in a 5-minute oral format at either of several simultaneous stations. Session 4: Pathogen-Specific Disease Prevention Strategies. Two invited speakers respectively, will address development of a bacterial and a viral vaccine. Five other 20-minute presentations to be given will be selected from among submitters of abstracts. A final 40-minute panel discussion will engage program directors from granting agencies (representatives from NIH, USDA, Canadian Institutes of Health Research have been invited).