Infectious diseases of the nervous system: Pathogenesis and worldwide impact is an international conference that will take place in Paris,10-13^th September, 2008.

The conference aims to gather a group of experts in a number of infectious diseases that attack our nervous system. The two keynote lectures on the opening day will be [The brain, Africa’s finest and most vulnerable product’ given by Professor Malcolm Molyneux of the Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme in Blantyre, Malawi and ‘Community-based care for infectious diseases in rural areas of developing world’ given by Professor Paul Farmer, who is a Professor of Medical Anthropology at the Harvard Medical School and Director of Partners in Health Clinics in Haiti and Rwanda.

The scientific programme includes the following lectures: ’Trypanosoma Brucei triggers its own multi-step entry into the brain’, by Krister Kristensson at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden; ’Importance of microvesiculation in the immunopathology of cerebral malaria’, by Professor Georges Grau of the Institute for Biomedical Research at University of Sydney, Australia; and ’Signaling mechanisms for survival of leprosy bacteria in the peripheral nervous system’, by Anura Rambukkana at Rockefeller University in New York, USA; among others.

More information about the conference, including the complete scientific programme can be found on the conference website.