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

SUMMARY项目请求资助将于2004年7月24-28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。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(623到1289)，摘要投稿也几乎翻了一番(442到801)。1.拟议活动的学术价值是什么？与会者将介绍他们最新和最重要的发现，其中许多尚未发表，有助于促进该领域知识的进步。由于这已成为一种成功的传统，站台和海报形式的科学会议涵盖了包括植物、无脊椎动物和脊椎动物在内的各种生物的工作。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最令人兴奋的发现：干细胞、同源盒-20年过去了，它们如何解释发展？MicroRNAs在发育中的作用：想象盘：自上而下的发育、图案化、Evo-Devo、组织和器官发育、新兴生物体、作为发育机制的抑制、发育生物学与人类健康、转基因与成像、基因组学、蛋白质组学和生物信息学。将从提交的摘要中挑选另外24名发言者进行简短演讲，以便纳入最新结果，并为博士后研究员和研究生提供向广大听众发表讲话的机会，因为初级调查员将得到优先考虑。这项拟议的活动有哪些更广泛的影响？今年的教育研讨会将为科学家提供一个机会，让他们学习如何在生物大班中成为更有效的教师，了解学生的不同学习方式，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焕发活力。这次会议将是一个及时的场所，以满足公开论坛的需要，在这些论坛上可以公布科学事实，例如报纸和政界经常发生的关于人类克隆和干细胞研究的辩论，从而为知情的政策决策提供基础。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。在校园食堂用餐和海报周围的社交时间将提供一个论坛，将初级和高级调查人员聚集在一起，并允许他们就科学、教育和科学在当今社会中的作用交流意见。旅行奖项将提供给代表人数不足的少数族裔、学生和博士后研究员、主要是本科院校的教职员工以及拉丁美洲教职员工和学生参加会议。

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.