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Tuberculosis afflicts millions of people each year, yet most individuals are thought to clear infection without manifesting disease. Understanding why only a fraction of infected individuals are susceptible to disease represents a critical gap in research and medicine. The Mycobacterium tuberculosis lifecycle involves entry, survival, proliferation and exit, spanning timelines of minutes to months or even years. At each step, host attempts to thwart and eliminate infection can be overcome by bacterial countermeasures.

This meeting will bring together researchers who study the tuberculosis host-pathogen interface, from the scale of molecules, to individual cells, to the cellular aggregates or granulomas that are the hallmark structures of tuberculosis. The program will also cover research on nontuberculous mycobacteria, as well as other pathogens with similar “lifestyle” aspects to M. tuberculosis and studies of host processes in other contexts, with the goal of achieving a more complete understanding of tuberculosis disease processes. New tools and methodologies that enable new discoveries in interrogating the tuberculosis host-pathogen interface will be highlighted. We aim for this “holistic” approach to enhance understanding of basic infection biology to inform new strategies for global elimination of this age-old pathogen.