Conference: FASEB Conference on Ciliate Molecular Biology being held in Tucson, Arizona on July 21-26, 2007.

该奖项为第十三届国际纤毛虫分子生物学会议提供了部分支持，该会议将于2007年7月21-26日在亚利桑那州图森举行。这次会议将汇集来自不同国家的120-150名科学家，他们使用纤毛原生动物作为模型系统，研究各种重要的生物学问题，如自剪接RNA、端粒酶和组蛋白乙酰转移酶对染色质的重塑。大会将包括九个平台会议、三个研讨会和两个海报会议。平台会议的主题代表了当前纤毛虫研究的活跃领域，包括基因组结构和组织、发育基因组重排、基因表达和染色质修饰、RNA代谢、基因组稳定性和动力学、进化和种群生物学、形态发生和发育、细胞骨架和细胞运动学、细胞质细胞生物学。大约一半的演讲者将从提交的摘要中选出。介绍和讨论不太完整的项目。研讨会将围绕基因组学和后基因组学、教室中的纤毛虫和新工具展开。NSF的资金将用于支持学生和博士后的出席。

This award provides partial support for the Thirteenth International Meeting on Ciliate Molecular Biology, which will be held as a FASEB Summer Research Conference in Tucson Arizona from July 21-26, 2007. The meeting will bring together 120-150 scientists from various countries who use ciliated protozoa as model systems to study diverse and important biological problems such as self-splicing RNA, telomerase, and chromatin remodeling by histone acetyltransferases. The conference will include nine platform sessions, three workshops and two poster sessions. Topics of the platform sessions represent active areas of current ciliate research including Genome Structure and Organization, Developmental Genome Rearrangements, Gene Expression and Chromatin Modification, RNA Metabolism, Genome Stability and Dynamics, Evolution and Population Biology, Morphogenesis and Development, Cytoskeleton and Cell Motility, Cytoplasmic Cell Biology. Roughly half the speakers will be chosen from submitted abstracts. to present and discuss projects that are less complete. The workshops will be on Genomics and Postgenomics, Ciliates in the Classroom, and New Tools. NSF funds will be used to support attendance by students and postdocs.