Society for Developmental Biology 64th Annual Meeting, July 27 - August 1, 2005, San Francisco, CA

项目概要资金要求部分支持将于2005年7月27日至8月1日在加利福尼亚州弗朗西斯科凯悦酒店举行的发育生物学学会第64届年会。该学会在过去的66年里组织了发育生物学的主要会议，在第二次世界大战期间只缺席了两次。会议规模在过去十年中翻了两番多（从1993年的不到300人增加到2003年的不到1,300人），摘要提交也同样出色（从不到200人增加到近800人）。1.拟议活动的智力价值是什么？与会者将展示他们的最新数据，其中许多尚未发表，有助于该领域知识的进步。由于它已成为一个成功的传统，平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体的工作。在初步计划中列出的所有受邀演讲者都接受了邀请，告诉我们他们在以下领域的一些最令人兴奋的发现：发育生物学的基本问题，发育和遗传中的细胞，生长和形式，个体发生和发育，染色质和发育，卵极性，信号：从个体调节器到网络，干细胞，空间和时间的变化，后生动物进化，RNA和发育，脊椎动物器官发生。将从提交的摘要中选出大约30名额外的演讲者进行简短的演讲，以便纳入最新成果，并为博士后研究员和研究生提供向广大听众发表演讲的机会，因为优先考虑初级研究人员。教育研讨会解决发展生物学的概念，教授之路：找工作，写一个炸药补助金和开发生物2010年，光学技术和组学技术研讨会完成该计划。 2.拟议活动的广泛影响是什么？除了传播该领域的新科学发现外，与会者将有充分的机会在教育研讨会上讨论，并可能就发育生物学中最基本和最重要的概念达成共识。这应该作为我们这些谁想要有效地教这门学科，但不确定什么需要在标准学期课程期间教，而不会迷失在新信息的爆炸，或选择性地选择与我们自己的研究主题的指导方针。主办方预计将有超过1,000人参加，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。这些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，使他们能够就科学、教育和科学在当今社会中的作用交换意见。旅行奖将提供给代表性不足的少数民族，学生，博士后研究员，主要是本科院校的教师，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 64th Annual Meeting of the Society for Developmental Biology, to be held July 27 - August 1, 2005 at Hyatt Regency, San Francisco, CA. The Society has organized the major meeting in developmental biology for the past 66 years, missing only two during World War II. The meeting size has more than quadrupled in the past ten years (from less than 300 in 1993 to just under 1,300 in 2003) and abstract submissions have done just as well (from less than 200 to almost 800). 1. What is the intellectual merit of the proposed activity? Participants will be presenting their latest data, 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. All the invited speakers listed in the preliminary program have accepted the invitation to tell us about some of their most exciting findings in the following areas: Fundamental problems in developmental biology, Cell in development and heredity, On growth and form, Ontogeny and phylogeny, Chromatin and development, Egg polarity, Signaling: From individual regulators to networks, Stem cells, Gradients in space and time, Metazoan evolution, RNA and development, Vertebrate organogenesis. About 30 additional 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. Educational workshops addressing Concepts in Developmental Biology, The road to the professoriate: Getting a job and writing a dynamite grant and Dev Bio 2010, and workshops on Optics technology and Omics technology complete the program. 2. What are the broader impacts of the proposed activity? Besides dissemination of new scientific findings in the field, meeting participants will have ample opportunity to discuss during the education workshops, and maybe come to a consensus, about what the basic and most important concepts in developmental biology are. This should serve as a guideline for those of us who want to teach the subject effectively but are undecided as to what needs to be taught within the standard semester course period without getting lost in the explosion of new information, or selectively choosing topics related to our own research. The organizers expect an attendance of over 1,000 people, and most of them will present their new data in the dedicated poster sessions each day. These 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 today's society. Travel awards will be available to bring underrepresented minorities, students, postdoctoral fellows, faculty at primarily undergraduate institutions, and Latin American faculty and students to attend the meeting.