Conference: FASEB Ciliate Molecular Biology Conference, to be held in Saxtons River, Vermont, Summer 2003

会议：FASEB 纤毛虫分子生物学会议，将于 2003 年夏季在佛蒙特州萨克斯顿河举行

• 批准号: 0300788
• 负责人: Lawrence Klobutcher
• 金额: $ 0.87万
• 依托单位: Federation of Amer Societies For Exper Biology
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-07-01 至 2004-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0300788&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Conference; FASEB; Ciliate; Molecular; Biology

The "Tenth International Meeting on Ciliate Molecular Biology" will be held as a FASEB Summer Research Conference at the Vermont Academy in Saxton's River, Vermont, July 19-24, 2003. The meeting will bring together an international group of 160-170 researchers who employ molecular approaches for investigating diverse biological problems using ciliated protozoa as their model system. Historically, work on ciliated protozoa has provided a number of remarkable insights into important and universal biological processes, including the discoveries of self-splicing RNA, telomeres and telomerase, and chromatin remodeling by histone acetyltransferases. The continued development of molecular tools for these organisms has made them favorable models for studying numerous biological processes shared with a wide variety of eukaryotic organisms. This meeting seeks to foster the efficient exchange of unpublished research results and technical advances. Ten platform sessions and two poster sessions will be held at the conference. The topics of the platform sessions represent active areas of ciliate research, and include "Chromatin Structure and Function", "Genome Organization and Reorganization", "DNA Rearrangement: Epigenetics and Chromatin", "DNA Replication, Repair, and Telomeres", "Genetics, Genomics, & Molecular Technology", "Cytoskeleton andCell Motility", "Protein Trafficking and Regulated Secretion", "Morphogenesis and Development", "Environmental Sensing & Behavior", and "Evolution and Population Biology." There will also be two workshops held in conjunction with the conference. The first will focus on "Ciliates in the Classroom". Ciliated protozoa have long been used as teaching tools because of their complex biology, large size, and simple culture requirements. Many conferees have developed teaching modules (primarily for undergraduate courses) that utilize ciliates. The workshop will provide a forum for exchanging such teaching tools, discussing programs that work, and stimulating the development of new approaches to effective undergraduate education. "Functional Genomics and Bioinformatics", will be the focus of the second workshop. A similar event at the 2001 FASEB conference on ciliate molecular biology was instrumental in the planning of ciliate genome sequencing efforts. The session and workshop at the 2003 meeting are intended to further develop the ciliate genome sequencing efforts, as well as to plan for bioinformatic and post-genomic resources for ciliates. Past work on ciliates has contributed greatly to many areas of biology, and the further development of genomic-based resources will assure that these organisms remain useful and popular models for investigating fundamentalbiological problems.

“第十届国际纤毛虫分子生物学会议”将于2003年7月19日至24日在佛蒙特州萨克斯顿河的佛蒙特学院举行，作为FASEB夏季研究会议。会议将汇集一个由160-170名研究人员组成的国际小组，他们采用分子方法，以纤毛原生动物为模型系统研究各种生物学问题。 从历史上看，纤毛虫原生动物的工作提供了一些显着的见解重要和普遍的生物过程，包括自我剪接RNA的发现，端粒和端粒酶，染色质重塑组蛋白乙酰转移酶。这些生物分子工具的持续发展使它们成为研究与各种真核生物共享的许多生物过程的有利模型。 本次会议旨在促进未发表的研究成果和技术进步的有效交流。大会将举办十场平台会和两场海报会。平台会议的主题代表了纤毛虫研究的活跃领域，包括“染色质结构和功能”，“基因组组织和重组”，“DNA重排：表观遗传学和染色质”，“DNA复制，修复和端粒”，“遗传学，基因组学，&分子技术”，“细胞骨架和细胞运动”，“蛋白质运输和调节分泌”，“形态发生和发育”，“环境感应&行为”和“进化与种群生物学”。“会议期间还将举行两个工作坊。第一个主题是“教室里的纤毛虫”。纤毛虫由于其生物学特性复杂、体积大、培养要求简单，长期以来一直被用作教学工具。许多与会者已经开发了利用纤毛虫的教学模块（主要用于本科课程）。该研讨会将提供一个论坛，交流这些教学工具，讨论工作方案，并刺激有效的本科教育的新方法的发展。 “功能基因组学和生物信息学”将是第二次研讨会的重点。2001年FASEB关于纤毛虫分子生物学的会议上的一个类似事件有助于纤毛虫基因组测序工作的规划。2003年会议的会议和讲习班旨在进一步发展纤毛虫基因组测序工作，以及规划纤毛虫生物信息学和后基因组资源。过去对纤毛虫的研究为生物学的许多领域做出了巨大贡献，基于基因组的资源的进一步发展将确保这些生物体仍然是研究基础生物学问题的有用和流行的模型。