ICEPT-2 The Past & Present of Tuberculosis: a multidisciplinary overview on the origin and evolution of TB [antikvár]

PREFACEICEPT-2The Past Present of Tuberculosis: a multidisciplinary overview on the origin and evolution of TBThe recent progresses in the lnowledge of the evolutionary biology of tuberculosis necessitate a new synthesis on this topic. Several questions should be addressed, among them: w/hat is the oldest evidence of this infection on human and animal remains? When did specific mutation(s) of the modern strains arise? What was the relative importance of the different pathogenic species of the Mycobacterium genus among past populations? Did the pre-contact American TB differ from the Old Word Infection? How can we explore the dynamics of the hostpathogen co-evolution In the case of tubercular Infection? Can we reconstruct a consensual phylogeny of the Mycobacterium genus? What do we know about the evolution of susceptibility/resistance pattern among human populations? How paleopathology and paleomicroblology can contribute In the research of the TB evolution? What are the main strategies to brake or to moderate the re-emergence of TB? How can the molecular phylogenetlcs contribute in these fights?Fifteen years after the first International "ICEPT" meeting on the evolution of tuberculosis (1997, Szeged, Hungary), a new international conference ("ICEPT-2") will be held In Szeged and will tackle these Issues in order to elaborate a new multidisciplinary synthesis on the evolutionary pattern of this human infection. It will facilitate a better understanding of its past, present as well as Its possible future. In choosing the exact date of the 2012 TB Evolution Meeting, we have decided to join the Albert Szent-Gyorgyi's Nobel Prize Award Anniversary Conference Series (22"''-25"' March 2012) and the 2012 World TB day (24* March 2012) - the 130"' anniversary of Robert Koch's discovery.Conference series on the occasion of the ys"" Anniversary of Albert Szent-Györgyi's Nobel Prize AwardThe University of Szeged, Hungary, is organizing an International conference series on the occasion of the ys"" Anniversary of Albert Szent-Gyorgyi's Nobel Prize Award which he received In 1937 for isolating vitamin C and for his research on the Krebs cycle. The event is scheduled to start on 22"'' March, 2012 and ends on 25"' March 2012.