We are planning the Third International Calicivirus Conference in Cancun, Mexico,? Caribbean in November 10-13, 2007. We will invite researchers, physicians, health workers,? governmental legislation persons, military personnel and students from around the world who? are interested in calicivirus research to exchange information, share their new research data,? and obtain education in various aspects of calicivirus. We also will discuss problems and seek? for solutions in the control and prevention of norovirus-associated gastroenteritis as a globally? important infectious disease. Furthermore, through lectures, presentations, discussions and? social activities, we will stimulate collaboration among scientists nationally and internationally? to speed up calicivirus research especially in diagnosis, treatment, and control and prevention.? Finally, we also will discuss issues related to the NIH/CDC biodefense program for potential? novel strategies and policies to reduce the threat of norovirus to public health. This meeting? will have a similar agenda as that of the last meeting in Dijon, French, 2004, but with a new? theme following general, multidiscliplinary topics of virology. We will have one keynote? speaker on recombination and evolution of positive stranded RNA viruses and ten state of the? art speakers on recent advancements on variable topics of human and animal calicivirus? researches. We also will have a number of other oral and poster presentations selected under? each topic from the submitted abstracts to follow the keynote and the state of the art? presentations. We will publish a proceeding of the meeting as a supplement of the Journal of? Infectious Diseases after the meeting.
