Manipulating the Immune System with Natural and Synthetic Antibodies

The Gordon Research Seminar on Antibody Biology and Engineering is a unique forum for graduate students, post-docs, and other scientists with comparable levels of experience and education to present and exchange new data and cutting edge ideas.

The focus of the 2018 "Antibody Biology and Engineering" GRS is on biological processes that promote or limit antibody responses against tumors, foreign pathogens, and self-antigens, and how this knowledge is utilized to engineer next-generation antibodies to treat human diseases. The seminar will combine many aspects of antibody research with a particular focus on understanding and manipulating immune responses using natural and synthetic antibodies. Topics will span basic antibody biology, structure, function and diversity, through engineering approaches and clinical applications of antibodies as therapeutics. By intersecting industrial and academic investigators, this GRS will provide a platform to initiate fruitful collaborations aiming to design the next generation of antibody therapeutics to treat inflammatory and neurological diseases, infection, and cancer.