This meeting will be held jointly with the Fungal Pathogenesis conference, to foster interdisciplinary insights and collaborations towards understanding fungal strategies to breach protective barriers, and mechanisms that protect against fungal infection.
This Keystone Symposia conference is designed to explore new cross-disciplinary paradigms in barrier immunity through integration of emerging topics in understanding of host-microbe interactions and environmental factors with sensory networks of the epithelia, nervous and immune systems. This conference will showcase how a multidisciplinary and global approach to barrier immunity will guide development of new therapeutic strategies for the treatment of multiple infectious and inflammatory diseases including asthma, allergy, inflammatory bowel diseases and cancer.