International Pathogenic Neisseria Conference

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The International Pathogenic Neisseria Conference (IPNC) occurs every two years and is a forum for the presentation of cutting-edge research on all aspects of the genus Neisseria . This includes immunology, vaccinology and physiology and metabolism of Neisseria meningitidis , Neisseria gonorrhoeae and the commensal species.

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History

In the 1970s a series of conferences were held dealing with issues of meningococcal epidemiology and vaccination. Some of these conferences were held in Milano, St. Paul de Vence, and Marseille. But the first official conference was held in San Francisco, California, 1978. The location of the conference switched between North America and Europe until 2006 when the venue was located in Cairns, Australia. [1] Please note that the meeting in South Africa was for the first time both in person and on line, and was delayed from 2020 to 2022. Subsequently the 2022 meeting in Boston was delayed to 2023.

List of Conferences

Number of Conferences [1] YearLocationChair Persons (till 2002)/

Co-Conveners (After 2004)

1st1978 San Francisco, California, USA G.F. Brooks
2nd1980 Hemavan, Sweden S. Normark and D. Danielsson
3rd1982 Montreal, Canada I.WDeVoe
4th1984 Asilomar, California, USA G.K. Schoolnik
5th1986 Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands J.T. Poolman
6th1988 Pine Mountain, Georgia, USA S.A. Morse
7th1990 Berlin, Germany M. Achtman
8th1992 Cuernavaca, Mexico C.I. Conde-Glez
9th1994 Winchester, England M.C.J. Maiden and I Feavers
10th1996 Baltimore, Maryland, USA C.E. Frasch
11th1998 Nice, France X. Nassif
12th2000 Galveston, Texas, USA F. Sparling and P. Rice
13th2002 Oslo, Norway E. Wedege
14th2004 Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA M.A. Apicella and H. Seifert
15th2006 Cairns, North Queensland, Australia J. Davies and M. Jennings
16th2008 Rotterdam, The Netherlands L. van Alphen, P. van der Lay and G. van den Dobbelsteen
17th2010 Banff, Canada Anthony Schryvers and Scott Gray-Owen
18th2012 Würzburg, Germany Matthias Frosch, Ulrich Vogel and Thomas Rudel
19th2014 Asheville, North Carolina, USA Ann Jerse, Cynthia Nau Cornelissen and Joe Dillard
20th2016 Manchester, United Kingdom Ray Borrow, Christoph Tang
21st2018 Asilomar, California, USA Peter T Beernink, Gregory Moe and Dan M Granoff
22nd2022 Cape Town, South Africa Mignon du Plessis, Anne von Gottberg, Susan Meiring
23rd2023 Boston, Massachusetts, USA Lee Wetzler, Caroline Genco, Paola Massari

The Igor Stojiljkovic Memorial Fund

In memory of Igor Stojiljkovic a scholarship fund has been initiated through the Emory University School of Medicine, to be used exclusively to provide travel funds to young investigators so that they can attend bacterial pathogenesis meetings such as the IPNC. [2]

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References

  1. 1 2 "IPNC - Neisseria.org". neisseria.org. Retrieved 2015-06-14.
  2. "The Igor Stojiljkovic Memorial Fund - Neisseria.org". neisseria.org. Retrieved 2015-06-14.