Report from the second cytomegalovirus and immunosenescence workshop

Mark Wills (1) , Arne Akbar (2) , Mark Beswick (3) , Jos Bosch (4, 5) , Calogero Caruso (6) , Giuseppina Colonna-Romano (6) , Ambarish Dutta (7) , Claudio Franceschi (8) , Tamas Fulop (9) , Effrossyni Gkrania-Klotsas (10) , Joerg Goronzy (11) , Stephen Griffiths (2) , Sian Henson (2) , Dietmar Herndler-Brandstetter (12) , Ann Hill (13) , Florian Kern (14) , Paul Klenerman (15) , Derek Macallan (16) , Richard Macaulay (2) , Andrea Maier (17) , Gavin Mason (1) , David Melzer (7) , Matthew Morgan (12) , Paul Moss (3) , Janko Nikolich-Zugich (18) , Annette Pachnio (3) , Natalie Riddell (2) , Ryan Roberts (1) , Paolo Sansoni (19) , Delphine Sauce (20) , John Sinclair (1) , Rafael Solana (21) , Jan Strindhall (22) , Piotr Trzonkowski (23) , Rene van Lier (24) , Rosanna Vescovini (19) , George Wang (25) , Rudi Westendorp (26) , Graham Pawelec (27)

1 Department of Medicine
2 Division of Infection and Immunity
3 School of Cancer Sciences
4 College of Life and Environmental Sciences
5 Social and Preventive Medicine
6 Department of Pathobiology and Medical and Forensic Biotechnologies
7 Epidemiology and Public Health Group
8 Dept. Experimental Pathology
9 Research Centre on Aging
10 Addenbrooke's Hospital
11 Stanford School of Medicine [Stanford]
12 School of Immunity and Infection
13 Dept Microbiology and Immunology
14 BSMS
15 Nuffield Dept of Clinical Medicine
16 Centre for Infection
17 Department of Gerontology and Geriatrics
18 Department of Immunobiology and the Arizona Center on Aging
19 Department of Internal Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
20 Immunité et Infection
21 IMIBIC - Instituto Maimonides de Investigación Biomédica de Cordoba
22 Department of Natural Science and Biomedicine
23 Department of Clinical Immunology and Transplantology
24 Department of Experimental Immunology
25 Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology
26 Department of Public Health and Primary Care
27 Department of Internal Medicine II

The Second International Workshop on CMV & Immunosenescence was held in Cambridge, UK, 2-4th December, 2010. The presentations covered four separate sessions: cytomegalovirus and T cell phenotypes; T cell memory frequency, inflation and immunosenescence; cytomegalovirus in aging, mortality and disease states; and the immunobiology of cytomegalovirus-specific T cells and effects of the virus on vaccination. This commentary summarizes the major findings of these presentations and references subsequently published work from the presenter laboratory where appropriate and draws together major themes that were subsequently discussed along with new areas of interest that were highlighted by this discussion.

Domains: Immunology

Mark Wills, Arne Akbar, Mark Beswick, Jos Bosch, Calogero Caruso, et al.. Report from the second cytomegalovirus and immunosenescence workshop. Immunity and Ageing, 2011, 8 (1), pp.10. ⟨inserm-00643765⟩