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

0236887Kim这笔赠款用于资助约18名学生和博士后参加2003年国际线虫会议的旅费和注册费。这是唯一一次专门研究线虫的国际会议。该领域的工作人员认为，这是他们在线虫会议举行的年份中参加的最重要的会议。专门研究线虫的会议可以实现许多混合研讨会不可能实现的目标：观众可以假设有更多的知识，可能进行更复杂的讨论，可以寻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，总共将吸引约1800人参加。本次会议为所有研究线虫的研究人员提供了一个论坛，以展示和讨论与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。会议还将吸引和告知目前没有使用线虫作为主要模型的研究人员。会议将促进和展示年轻科学家(研究生、博士后研究人员和助理教授)的研究，包括妇女和少数民族。在2001年的上一次会议上，99%的演讲是由年轻的研究人员做的。最后，会议将为交流方法、突变体和DNA克隆提供一个论坛。会议将为实现这一目标专门设立“研讨会”。还计划为2005年第二次会议提供资金。

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.