Observations
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Observations John Mason
Published online: 26 May 2007 Ó Humana Press Inc. 2007
‘Perspectives in Immunology 2006’, the first historic symposium of the newly formed Robert A. Good Immunology Society was held in June 9–12, 2006 in St. Pete Beach, Florida. The symposium, also a memorial to Bob Good, was a scientific and major feat for Noorbibi Day-Good, the symposium chair and program committee chair. The international flair of outstanding speakers from Japan, China, France, Germany, Italy, Israel, Canada, India, Egypt, Myamar, Korea and the U.S. added notably to the symposium. Bob’s peers, as well as his former students, were major participants. This first conference focused on 3 major topics, i.e., Immune Deficiency, Immune Reconstitution and Innate Immunity. An outstanding faculty of over 40 well-known scientists and scientist-physicians in their respective fields presented the sessions. The keynote lecture and the first Robert A. Good Lecture in Immunologic Reconstitution on the topic of Tolerance was given by Professor Thomas E. Starzl followed by Richard A. Lerner, the first Robert A. Good Lecturer in Immunochemistry who gave a talk on the modern way to make antibodies; and Fred Alt, the Robert A. Good Lecturer in Innate Immunity. The distinguished faculty of speakers included, Fred and Vicki Modell, co-founders of the Jeffrey Modell Foundation. Spurred by the death of their son Jeffrey, the Modells have established centers for the diagnosis of patients with immunodeficiencies in the U.S., Europe, the Middle East and most recently in China. The scientific mood was upbeat. All were excited, exchanging ideas in spite of a threatening tropical storm, which brought heavy rains. What struck me, in the first two sessions, was the structure of the program on Immune Deficiency and Immune Reconstitution. Senior scientists, covered historical developments
Presented at the First Robert A Good Society Symposium, St. Petersburg, FL 2006. J. Mason (&) Bay Pines Veterans Health, Bay Pines, FL, USA e-mail: [email protected] J. Mason Department of Pathology, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA
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highlighting historic achievements creating a meaningful perspective for the subsequent speakers. These scholars were followed by the next generation of refreshing and enthusiastic scientists, most of whom presented their unpublished and more current work highlighting present day research advances. There was a lot to digest and learn. As a pathologist, and having had previous experience in Complement work, I was particularly interested in the session entitled Innate Immunity. Although the format in this session was unlike the other two, there was a common thread in their content I was particularly struck by the paper by Carrero and Unanue. Professor Unanue presented their work on apoptosis and infection using a mouse model of infections with Listeria monocytogenes with subsequent apoptosis of T lymphocytes. They detailed some of the remarkable cellular and cytokine processes that underlie m
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