The Gordon Research Seminar on Antimicrobial Peptides is a unique forum for graduate students, post-docs, and other scientists with comparable levels of experience and education to present and exchange new data and cutting edge ideas. The meeting will focus on the most recent discovery on antimicrobial peptide (AMP) research, covering a wide range of topics, including structure and function analysis, expression and regulation, antimicrobial actions and mechanisms, microbial resistance strategies, health and disease-related immunomodulatory functions, and development of AMPs as therapeutics. A special focus will be given to new and emerging roles of AMPs in health and diseases.