Society for Developmental Biology 63rd Annual Meeting; Alberta, Canada; July 2004

项目概要：本项目将于2004年7月24日至28日在加拿大阿尔伯塔省卡尔加里大学举行的第63届发育生物学学会年会获得部分资助。在过去的65年里，该学会组织了发育生物学的主要会议，但在第二次世界大战期间缺席了两次。会议规模在过去五年中翻了一番（从623次增加到1289次），摘要提交量也几乎翻了一番（从442次增加到801次）。1. 所提议的活动的智力价值是什么？与会者将展示他们最新和最重要的发现，其中许多尚未发表，为该领域的知识进步做出贡献。由于它已经成为一个成功的传统，在平台和海报形式的科学会议包括不同的生物，包括植物，无脊椎动物和脊椎动物的工作。大多数受邀的演讲者已经接受了邀请，向我们讲述他们在以下领域的一些最激动人心的发现：干细胞，Homeoboxes——二十年来，它们如何解释发展？microrna在发育中的作用，影像盘：自上而下的发育，模式，进化-进化，组织和器官发育，新兴生物，作为发育机制的抑制，发育生物学和人类健康，转基因和成像，基因组学，蛋白质组学和生物信息学。另外将从提交的摘要中选择24位演讲者进行简短的演讲，允许包含最新的结果，并为博士后和研究生提供一个向大量听众发表演讲的机会，因为初级研究者将优先考虑。建议的活动有何更广泛的影响？今年的教育研讨会将为科学家们提供一个机会，让他们学习如何成为更有效的大型生物课堂教师，了解学生学习的不同方式，并促进主动学习。这次会议肯定会使许多科学家的教学方式活跃起来。这次会议将是一个及时的场所，以满足公众论坛的需要，在这个论坛上可以宣传科学事实，例如在报纸上和政界发生的关于人类克隆和干细胞研究主题的往往缺乏信息的辩论中；从而为明智的政策决定提供基础。他们预计将有大约800人出席，其中大多数人将在每天的专门海报会议上展示他们的新数据。在校园食堂一起用餐和围绕海报的社交时间将提供一个论坛，将初级和高级研究人员聚集在一起，并允许他们就科学，教育和科学在当今社会中的作用交换意见。旅游奖将提供给代表性不足的少数民族、学生和博士后、主要本科院校的教师以及拉丁美洲的教师和学生参加会议。

PROJECT SUMMARYFunds are requested for partial support of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Developmental Biology, to be held July 24 - 28, 2004 at the University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The Society has organized the major meeting in developmental biology for the past 65 years, missing two during World War II. The meeting size has doubled in the past five years (623 to 1289) and abstract submission has almost doubled as well (442 to 801). 1. What is the intellectual merit of the proposed activity?Participants will be presenting their latest and most important discoveries, many yet to be published, contributing to advancement of knowledge in the field. As it has become a successful tradition, the scientific sessions in platform and poster formats encompass work on diverse organisms including plants, invertebrates and vertebrates. Most of the invited speakers have already accepted the invitation to tell us about some of their most exciting findings in the following areas: Stem cells, Homeoboxes - Twenty years on, how do they explain development? Role of microRNAs in development, The imaginal disc:Development from top to bottom, Patterning, Evo-Devo, Tissue and organ development, Emerging organisms, Inhibition as a mechanism of development, Developmental biology and human health, Transgenics and imaging, Genomics, proteomics and bioinformatics. An additional 24 speakers will be chosen from submitted abstracts for short talks, allowing the inclusion of the latest results and providing an opportunity for postdoctoral fellows and graduate students to address a large audience, as priority will be given to junior investigators.2. What are the broader impacts of the proposed activity?This year, the Education Symposium will offer an opportunity for scientists to learn how to be more effective teachers of large biology classes, to understand the different ways students learn and to promote active learning. This session will certainly vitalize the way many scientists teach. The meeting will be a timely venue to fulfill the need for public forums in which scientific facts can be aired, such as in the often ill-informed -debate- that occurs in newspapers and in political circles concerning the subject of human cloning and stem cell research; thereby providing the basis for well-informed policy decisions.They expect an attendance of about 800 people, and most of them will present their new data in the dedicated poster sessions each day. The meals taken together in the campus cafeteria and the social hours around the posters will provide a forum to bring together junior and senior investigators, and to allow them to exchange ideas on science, education and the role of science in todays society. Travel awards will be available to bring underrepresented minorities, students and postdoctoral fellows, faculty at primarily undergraduate institutions, as well as Latin American faculty and students to attend the meeting.