Mark Wills, Arne Akbar, Mark Beswick, Jos A Bosch, Calogero Caruso, Giuseppina Colonna-Romano, Ambarish Dutta, Claudio Franceschi, Tamas Fulop, Effrossyni Gkrania-Klotsas, Joerg Goronzy, Stephen J Griffiths, Sian M Henson, Dietmar Herndler-Brandstetter, Ann Hill, Florian Kern, Paul Klenerman, Derek Macallan, Richard Macaulay, Andrea B Maier, Gavin Mason, David Melzer, Matthew Morgan, Paul Moss, Janko Nikolich-Zugich, Annette Pachnio, Natalie Riddell, Ryan Roberts, Paolo Sansoni, Delphine Sauce, John Sinclair, Rafael Solana, Jan Strindhall, Piotr Trzonkowski, Rene van Lier, Rosanna Vescovini, George Wang, Rudi Westendorp, Graham Pawelec

The Second International Workshop on CMV & Immunosenescence was held in Cambridge, UK, 2-4th December, 2010. The presentations covered four separate sessions: cytomegalovirus and T cell phenotypes; T cell memory frequency, inflation and immunosenescence; cytomegalovirus in aging, mortality and disease states; and the immunobiology of cytomegalovirus-specific T cells and effects of the virus on vaccination. This commentary summarizes the major findings of these presentations and references subsequently published work from the presenter laboratory where appropriate and draws together major themes that were subsequently discussed along with new areas of interest that were highlighted by this discussion.