Infectious Diseases of the nervous system: Pathogenesis and worldwide impact

The Conference “Infectious Diseases of the nervous system: Pathogenesis and worldwide impact” will be held in Paris at the Pasteur Institute, September 10 to 13, 2008.

We have assembled a list of 36 experts coming from a dozen different countries, who have accepted our invitation to speak on a variety of pathogens causing devastating neurological diseases such as cerebral Malaria, Neurocysticercosis, Sleeping Sickness, Viral Encephalitis, Poliomyelitis, Progressive Multifocal Leuko-encephalopathy, Bacterial Meningitis, Cerebral Tuberculosis, HIV-associated Neurocognitive disorders, HTLV1-inducedTropical spastic paraparesis, Leprosy and Rabies.

To our knowledge this conference topic has not been covered recently in a broad, comprehensive way. We wish to attract also an audience of young researchers/trainees in the field from all continents and hope to foster collaborations to accelerate investigations of disease pathogenesis and the use of new technologies for development of diagnostic tools and drug discovery.

Registration is now open. Travel fellowships are available and Abstract submission has opened March 1, 2008.

Please visit the conference website ( www.pasteur.fr/worldneuroinfections2008) and join us in Paris.