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Australasian Society for Immunology 44th Annual Meeting 2014 (ASI 2014)

Novotel Wollongong Northbeach * | Wollongong, AUSTRALIA
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Title: Australasian Society for Immunology 44th Annual Meeting 2014 (ASI 2014)
Specialty: , Immunology
Dates: From Dec, 1, 2014 to Dec, 5, 2014
Location: Wollongong, AUSTRALIA
Type: Meeting
Registration Cost: From 100 to 895 USD
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Novotel Wollongong Northbeach *

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Event Overview
Welcome message:

The ASI National Conference returns to NSW in 2014 and will be held by the relaxed shores of Wollongong, at the Wollongong Novotel Northbeach. The meeting will be run in conjunction with the 10th Human Leukocyte Differentiation Antigen Workshop, the 12th Autoimmunity Workshop and the Transplant Society of Australia and New Zealand are sponsoring a workshop on T regs in human trials.

The conference is sure to be attractive to both researchers and clinicians alike. We have secured an impressive line-up of international speakers including Nobel laureate Bruce Beutler, Ron Germain (NIH, USA), Qizhi Tang (UCSF Diabetes Center), Erika Pearce (Washington University, USA), Yasmine Belkaid (NIAID, USA), Marco Colonna (Washington University, USA), Bart Lambrecht (VIB Belgium), Taka Okada (RIKEN, Japan), Gennaro De Libero (ASTAR, Singapore), Tracey Hussel (Imperial College London, UK), Andrea Cooper (Trudeau Institute, USA).

We hope you will join us in Wollongong from Monday the 1st to Friday the 5th of December, please bookmark the webpage www.asi2014.org .

Further Information on ASI 2014 will be available in October 2013. In the meantime please visit the 43rd Australasian Society for Immunology ASM Website.

Speakers/Faculty:
INTERNATIONAL SPEAKERS

Yasmine Belkaid - National Institute of Health, NIAID,USA

Bruce Beutler - UT Southwestern Medical Center, USA

Arya Biragyn - National Institutes of Health, USA

Marco Colonna - Washington University, USA

Andrea Cooper - Trudeau Institute, USA

Gennaro De Libero - Singapore Immunology Network (SIgN) Singapore

Ronald Germain - National Insitute of Allergy & Infectious Diseases, USA

Bart Lambrecht - Ghent University, Belgium

Takaharu Okada - RIKEN Center of Intergrative Medical Science Center (IMS-RCAI), Japan

Virginia Pascual - Baylor Institute for Immunology Research, USA

Erika Pearce - Washington University, USA

Qizhi Tang - UCSF Diabetes Center, USA 

LOCAL SPEAKERS

Gabrielle Belz - Walter & Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, VIC

Robert Brink - Garvan Institute of Medical Research, NSW

Lynn Corcoran - WEHI, VIC

Tony Cunningham - Westmead Millennium Institute, NSW

Andrew Currie - Murdoch University, WA

Stephen Daley - Australian National University, ACT

Barbara Fazekas - Centenary University, NSW

Paul Foster - The University of Newcastle, NSW

Katharina Gaus - University of New South Wales, NSW

Dale Godfrey - University of Melbourne, VIC

Michele Grimbaldeston - Centre of Cancer Biology, SA Pathology, SA

Margaret Hibbs - Monash University, VIC

Charles Mackay - Monash University, VIC

Ben Roediger - Centenary Institute, NSW

Sarah Russell - Peter McCallum Cancer Centre, VIC

Kate Stacey - University of Queensland, QLD

Ray Steptoe - University of Queensland, QLD

Jennifer Stow - Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland, QLD

 

    • Yasmine Belkaid

      National Institute of Health, USA

    • Gabrielle Belz

      Walter & Eliza Hall Insititute of Medical Research, VIC

 
    • Bruce Beutler
      Bruce Beutler

      UT Southwestern Medical Center, USA

      Bruce Beutler discovered an important family of receptors that allow mammals to sense infections when they occur, triggering a powerful inflammatory response. For this work he received the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine....Read More>>

    • RobertBrink
      Robert Brink

      Garvan Institute of Medical Research, NSW

      Dr Robert Brink obtained his Honours degree in Science from the University of Sydney in 1987 where he majored in Biochemistry and Genetics. He completed his PhD in 1992 under the supervision of Antony Basten and Chris Goodnow at Sydney’s......Read More>>

 
 
 
    • Stephen Daly

      Australian National University, ACT

    • Gennaro De Libero picture
      Gennaro De Libero

      Singapore Immunology Network (SIgN), Singapore

      Gennaro De Libero, M.D. Ph.D. is Professor of Immunology at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Basel, Switzerland and Principal investigator responsible of the Tuberculosis Program at SIgN, A*STAR....Read More>>

 
 
    • Katherina Gaus

      University of New South Wales, NSW

    • Ron N Germain
      Ronald Germain

      National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, USA

      I received my M.D. and Ph.D. in 1976 from Harvard University, the latter for research with B. Benacerraf, recipient of the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine....Read More>>

 
 
    • Margaret Hibbs

      Monash University, VIC

    • Bart Lambrecht
      Bart Lambrecht

      Ghent University, Belgium

      Bart N. Lambrecht obtained an MD (1993) and PhD (1999) in Medicine at Ugent and specialized in Pulmonary Medicine (2002) at Erasmus University Medical Center in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.  In 2005 he became Professor of Medicine at ErasmusMC, and in......Read More>>

 
    • Charles Mackay
      Charles Mackay

      Monash University, VIC

      Charles Mackay’s career involved understanding mechanisms of cell migration, and cytokines and chemokines for immune responses. His research has relevance to applied outcomes for immunological diseases, including new monoclonal antibody treatments for inflammation, fibrosis and cancer....Read More>>

    • Takaharu Okada

      RIKEN Center of Intergrative Medical Science Center (IMS-RCAI), Japan

 
    • Virginia Pascual
      Virginia Pascual

      Baylor Institute for Immunology Research, USA

      Virginia is a pediatric rheumatologist with ample experience in Translational Research and a focus on Human Autoimmunity and the Director of the Center for Inflammation and Genomics at BIIR....Read More>>

    • erika pearce
      Erika Pearce

      Washington University, USA

      Dr. Erika L. Pearce obtained her Ph.D. in 2005 from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia on the regulation of T cell responses during infection. She remained at the at the University of Pennsylvania for her postdoctoral fellowship and it......Read More>>

 
    • Ben Roediger

      The Centenary Institute for Cancer Medicine and Cell Biology, NSW

    • Sarah Russell

      Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, VIC

 
    • Raymond Steptoe pic
      Ray Steptoe

      The University of Queensland Diamantina Institute, QLD

      Ray Steptoe undertook undergraduate studies in Anatomy and Human Biology and postgraduate studies in Immunology at the University of Western Australia. After Postdoctoral training at the Thomas E....Read More>>

    • Jennifer Stow

      Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland, QLD

 
  • Qizhi Tang
    Qizhi Tang

    UCSF Diabetes Center, USA

    Qizhi Tang attended Peking Union Medical College in Beijing China before pursuing her graduate studies in the United States. She studied viral immunology for her PhD thesis at University of Illinois, Chicago and conducted her postdoctoral research on immune tolerance......Read More>>

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Accommodation
Accommodation:
Accommodation bookings are now open

 

The conference has secured rooms at a special conference rate at the Esplanade Hotel Fremantle - by Rydges for the nights of the 24th, 25th and 26th of October 2013. If you would like to stay out of the secured accommodation dates then please contact Bree Knights - bk@asnevents.net.au to check for availability.

 

To make your booking, complete the details on the registration form. You will need to select your accommodation in the registration process and provide one night's deposit in advance to secure your booking.  The price is in AUD including Government Taxes and GST.

 

When booking accommodation through your registration there are two icons that appear:

 

- If there is a green tick with the date you are wanting it means that there is availability.

 

- If there is an envelope near the date this means the date is currently not available. By clicking the envelope you can email ASN Events and ask for this date to be reserved for you.

The conference has secured rooms at a special conference rate at the Novotel Wollongong Northbeach for the nights of the 30th November (limited), 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th of December 2014. If you would like to stay out of the secured accommodation dates then please contact Bree Dewberry - bd@asnevents.net.au to check for availability.

To make your booking, complete the details on the registration form. You will need to select your accommodation in the registration process and provide FULL PREPAYMENT in advance to secure your booking.  The price is in AUD including Government Taxes and GST.

When booking accommodation through your registration there are two icons that appear:

- If there is a green tick with the date you are wanting it means that there is availability.

- If there is an envelope near the date this means the date is currently not available. By clicking the envelope you can email ASN Events and ask for this date to be reserved for you.

Novotel Wollongong Northbeach  
2-14 Cliff Road
North Wollongong, NSW 

 Room Type  Price per  night 
 Residential View Queen Room  $196.00
 Superior Queen Ocean View Room      $217.00
 Deluxe Ocean View Blacony Room  $227.00

* All rooms can come with the bedding configuration of 1 Queen Bed or 2 Double Beds, please make your selection when making the booking in your registration. 
*
 Buffet Breakfast is charged at $22 per person and can be purchased on arrival. 

Quest Wollongong
59-61 Kembla Street, Wollongong
Ph +61 2 4221 1500

 Room Type  Price per  night 
 One Bedroom Apartment (1 Queen Bed)    $182.00 
 Two Bedroom Apartment (2 King Beds or 1 King Bed + 2 Single beds  or 4 Single Beds)   $283.00

ALTERNATE ACCOMMODATION OPTIONS

Please see below a list of other hotels/motels and appartments around Wollongong which may have availability if you are not wishing to stay at the Novotel. 
Bookings for these will need to be made direct with the property. 

Wollongong Serviced Apartments
54 Kembla Street, Wollongong
Ph +61 2 4254 4254 

Normandie Motel & Function Centre
30 Bourke Street, Wollongong
Ph +61 2 4229 4833 

Adina Apartment Hotel
19 Market Street, Wollongong
Ph +61 2 4250 5000

Belmore All Suite Hotel
39 Smith Street, Wollongong
Ph 1800 028 512

 

ACCOMMODATION RESERVATION INFORMATION


Accommodation Payments

When making your booking you will be asked to pay either 1 nights deposit or the full stay. Without a payment your booking is not secure. You will be asked to make a payment through your dashboard using either credit card, Cheque or Bank Transfer. 

 

Sharing Rooms 

 

Sharing rooms does not result in any increase in tariff and is an effective means of reducing the cost of attending the meeting. Please indicate on your registration form the room style you require and, if known, the names of other delegates with whom you wish to share. Only one person should book the room online.

Extended Bookings

If staying for more than one conference, you should book all your accommodation on the first conference you register for, so you will not have to change rooms as each conference begins.

Arrival and Departure Times 

Rooms are not guaranteed available until 2pm on each day though can be made available earlier in the day at the discretion of the hotel itself. NOTE:  Delegates are required to check out of their rooms by 10.00am on the morning of their departure. 

Cancellation Policy 

Accommodation deposits are fully refundable until 30 days before the conference, after which no refunds will be made.

Less than 30 days prior to the arrival date of the conference, any cancelled accommodation will incur a cancellation fee equal to 100% of the total planned stay, as per your original booking.

Scientific Content Up to Date
Submission Info
Abstract Submission Deadline - Friday 5th September, 2014

SUBMITTING YOUR ABSTRACT

1. The first step in uploading your abstract is to record your personal details on your own ‘dashboard’. If you have already completed it for your registration or another ASN Event, you will not have to repeat this, just login to your ‘dashboard’  as a returning delegate. 

2. To upload your abstract, click ‘submit new’ under the Abstract section of your event profile. The system will then take you through the steps to complete your abstract. Once you are happy with your abstract and would like to submit it for consideration in the program, click ‘Finalise submission and return to dashboard’. 

3. YES - YOU CAN MAKE CHANGES AFTER YOU HAVE SUBMITTED!! You can use your email and password to access your abstract submission at any time and make any changes you wish until the abstract submission deadline. The edit option will no longer appear once scoring has commenced.

4. The presenting author must be the person submitting the abstract and they must do this from their own ‘dashboard’.

5. You can cut and paste your abstract in several simple steps. The benefits of this system are many but include:

- Allowing you to preview your abstract and make modifications to your satisfaction.
- Ensuring you know your lodgement is completed as you will receive an immediate email confirmation.
- Ensuring accurate indexing of all authors in the abstract book.
- Ensuring consistent presentation of all abstracts in the proceedings (overarching formatting is imposed).

BEFORE YOU START

1. Are you using one of the following browsers
- INTERNET EXPLORER (ver 5.5 or newer)
- NETSCAPE (ver 7.4 or newer) or
- MOZILLA (ver 1.3 or newer)
- CHROME
- SAFARI

If not the screen will tell you if it detects you are using the wrong software and you would be advised to change to a computer with one of them installed.

2. Have you got your abstract open and running on your own computer? You need to be able to cut and paste it onto the web. (Note that keypad short cuts do not work with Mozilla, you need to use the menu, edit, paste command to paste in text to your submission).

3. Is your abstract text less than 300 words – it will not allow you to paste larger submissions. The word count does NOT include your title, authoring or cited references.

4. Have you got a table in your abstract? If you have, it may copy and paste straight into the submission. This is likely if you have used the Times New Roman font and it is not physically large (try and keep it less than 12 cm wide on an A4 sheet). Otherwise you should save a copy of your table as an image file on your own computer first and upload that. (It should be a .tif .gif .png or .jpg file)

WHEN YOU'VE FINISHED THE SUBMISSION

You will receive a confirmation email with your Abstract Submission Reference Number. You can view or edit your abstract by returning to your dashboard.
If you do not receive this confirmation email, please contact ASN Events.

ACCEPTANCE NOTIFICATION

Notification of programming decisions will come from the secretariat shortly after the expiry of deadlines and the working program will be posted to the web site. It abstract result will also appear on your own ‘dashboard’. The notification will include specific presentation instructions but in the interim, those preparing posters should note the maximum size allowed is 100cm wide by 120cm high. Velcro will be available to fix the poster to the boards. Computer data projection is the preferred presentation method for orals.

WEB PUBLISHING

A couple of weeks before the meeting, the final program will be published to this web page along with hyperlinks to the abstracts.

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