International C. Elegans Meetings: to be held June 29 - July 3, 2003, Los Angeles, CA; and, in 2005

[0236887]这项奖助金是用来支持大约18名学生和博士后研究员参加2003年国际秀丽隐杆线虫会议的旅费和注册费。这是唯一一次专门研究秀丽隐杆线虫的国际会议。该领域的工作人员认为，这是他们在召开秀丽隐杆线虫会议的年份里参加的最重要的会议。一个专门讨论秀丽隐杆线虫研究的会议可以实现许多在混合研讨会上不可能实现的目标：听众可以获得更多的知识，可以进行更复杂的讨论，并且可以追求对生物体生物学的综合方法。会议将于2003年6月29日至7月3日在加州大学洛杉矶分校举行，预计将吸引约1800人参加。本次会议为所有研究秀丽隐杆线虫的研究人员提供了一个论坛，以展示和讨论与秀丽隐杆线虫生物学相关的广泛主题的结果，包括：程序性细胞死亡，功能基因组学，衰老，RNAi和生殖系生物学。会议还将吸引并告知目前不使用秀丽隐杆线虫作为主要模型的研究人员。该会议将促进和展示包括女性和少数民族在内的年轻科学家（研究生，博士后研究员和助理教授）的研究。在2001年的最后一次会议上，99%的演讲是由年轻的研究人员做的。最后，会议将提供一个交流方法、突变体和DNA克隆的论坛。会议将为此目标专门安排“研讨会”。2005年第二次会议的经费也在计划之中。

0236887KimThis grant is to help support travel and registration costs for about 18 students and post-doctoral fellows to attend the 2003 International C. elegans Meeting. This is the only international meeting exclusively devoted to research on C. elegans. Workers in the field regard this as the most important meeting they attend in the years in which a C. elegans meeting is held. A meeting devoted exclusively to C. elegans research can achieve many aims impossible at mixed symposia: far greater knowledge can be assumed in the audience, much more sophisticated discussion is possible, and an integrated approach to the biology of the organism can be pursued. The meeting will be at UCLA from June 29 to July 3, 2003 and will attract about 1800 participants in total. This meeting provides a forum for all researchers studying C. elegans to present and discuss results on a broad range of topics related to C. elegans biology, including: programmed cell death, functional genomics, aging, RNAi, and germ line biology. The meeting will also attract and inform researchers who are currently not using C. elegans as their primary model. The meeting will promote and showcase the research of younger scientists (graduate students, postdoctoral researchers and assistant professors) including women and minorities. At the last meeting in 2001, 99% of presentations were given by young researchers. Finally, the meeting will provide a forum for the exchange of methods, mutants and DNA clones. The meeting will have special "workshops" set aside for this goal. Funding for a second meeting in 2005 is also planned.