5th Australasian Vaccine and Immunotherapeutics Development Meeting, 7–9 May 2014

Abstract

The AVID meeting is held every 2 years bringing together immunologists, virologists, microbiologists and vaccinologists both nationally and internationally. The AVID committee acknowledge the support of the ASM as a major partner to this meeting, together with generous support from CSL, QIMR, Burnet Institute, Australasian Society for Immunology, EMBO, Immunology Group of Victoria (IgV) and trade partners Miltenyl Biotec, Millennium Science and PALL Life Sciences. The IgV coordinated their Master Class with the AVID conference allowing them to uniquely expose students to a stellar line-up of researchers spanning multiple lines of microbial pathogen investigation. These included Prof. Federica Sallusto, Dr James Murphy, Prof. Elizabeth Hartland, A/Prof. Phillip Darcy, A/Prof. Kristen Radford, Prof. Rick Pearson, Dr Irina Caminschi and Dr Marco Herold.