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The ‘NOFFI’ meeting in Iceland
Fish & Shellfish Immunology (1996) 6, 241
The ‘NOFFI’ meeting in Iceland From 24 to 27 May 1995, the Nordic Society for Fish Immunology (NOFFI) arranged the Nordic Symposium on Fish Immunology meeting in Reykjavik, Iceland. At this meeting, fish immunologists from mainly the Nordic and some other European countries were gathered to present and discuss their recent data on the immune system in fish. This issue of Fish & Shellfish Immunology contains a number of the plenary papers presented at the Iceland meeting and thus indicates the ‘state of the art’ of fish immunology. Both the evolutionary and the fish disease/vaccine aspects of fish immunology were focused on and it was clear to everyone present that this rather new discipline has achieved impressive results during the last few years. Now, when the sequences and organisation of fish TCR-genes in addition to the MHC and Ig genes are underway, the field seems to be more and more competitive to work going on in mammalian immunology. Obviously, the studies on fish immunology are also highly valuable to those interested in comparative aspects of the immune system in which the various fish models play an important and necessary part. Hopefully, the next meeting, which is scheduled to take place in Denmark in 1997, will include even more conclusive data on fish immune genes, cellular functions and fish interleukins. The organising committee in Reykjavik put in a lot of work to make this an interesting meeting for everyone who works in the field. There is no doubt that they succeeded. The content of the meeting and the excellent location provided a stimulating atmosphere enjoyable for all those attending. On behalf of the NOFFI TROND O. JORGENSEN
241 1050–4648/96/040241+01 $18.00
? 1996 Academic Press Limited
The ‘NOFFI’ meeting in Iceland From 24 to 27 May 1995, the Nordic Society for Fish Immunology (NOFFI) arranged the Nordic Symposium on Fish Immunology meeting in Reykjavik, Iceland. At this meeting, fish immunologists from mainly the Nordic and some other European countries were gathered to present and discuss their recent data on the immune system in fish. This issue of Fish & Shellfish Immunology contains a number of the plenary papers presented at the Iceland meeting and thus indicates the ‘state of the art’ of fish immunology. Both the evolutionary and the fish disease/vaccine aspects of fish immunology were focused on and it was clear to everyone present that this rather new discipline has achieved impressive results during the last few years. Now, when the sequences and organisation of fish TCR-genes in addition to the MHC and Ig genes are underway, the field seems to be more and more competitive to work going on in mammalian immunology. Obviously, the studies on fish immunology are also highly valuable to those interested in comparative aspects of the immune system in which the various fish models play an important and necessary part. Hopefully, the next meeting, which is scheduled to take place in Denmark in 1997, will include even more conclusive data on fish immune genes, cellular functions and fish interleukins. The organising committee in Reykjavik put in a lot of work to make this an interesting meeting for everyone who works in the field. There is no doubt that they succeeded. The content of the meeting and the excellent location provided a stimulating atmosphere enjoyable for all those attending. On behalf of the NOFFI TROND O. JORGENSEN
241 1050–4648/96/040241+01 $18.00
? 1996 Academic Press Limited