Commentary
Report from the second cytomegalovirus and immunosenescence workshop
1 Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
2 Division of Infection and Immunity, University College London, London, UK
3 School of Cancer Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
4 College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
5 Mannheim Institute of Public Health, Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany
6 Department of Pathobiology and Medical and Forensic Biotechnologies, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy
7 Epidemiology and Public Health Group, Peninsula Medical School, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK
8 Dept. Experimental Pathology, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
9 Research Centre on Aging, Immunology Program, Geriatric Division, Faculty of Medicine, University of Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Canada
10 Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, UK
11 Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
12 School of Immunity and Infection, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
13 Dept Microbiology and Immunology, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR, USA
14 BSMS, University of Sussex Campus, Falmer, UK
15 NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, Nuffield Dept of Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
16 Centre for Infection, St George's, University of London, Cranmer Terrace, London, UK
17 Department of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
18 Department of Immunobiology and the Arizona Center on Aging, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
19 Department of Internal Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University of Parma, Parma, Italy
20 INSERM, Infections and Immunity, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris, Paris, France
21 Instituto Maimonides de Investigación Biomédica de Cordoba (IMIBIC), Hospital Universitario Reina Sofía, Universidad de Cordoba, Cordoba, Spain
22 Department of Natural Science and Biomedicine, School of Health Sciences, Jönköping University, Jönköping, Sweden
23 Department of Clinical Immunology and Transplantology, Medical University of Gdańsk, Gdańsk, Poland
24 Sanquin Blood Supply Foundation and Department of Experimental Immunology, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
25 Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
26 Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
27 Department of Internal Medicine II, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
Immunity & Ageing 2011, 8:10 doi:10.1186/1742-4933-8-10
Published: 28 October 2011Abstract
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.
