Conference - Trace Element Metabolism: From Model Organisms to Humans, to be held at Snowmass, Colorado June 15 - 20, 2008

FASEB关于“微量元素代谢：从模式生物到人类”的夏季研究会议将于2008年6月15日至20日在科罗拉多州Snowmass举行。微量元素是必需的营养物质，因此对医学、农业以及农业与人类健康之间的相互关系至关重要。本次会议将重点讨论在理解微量元素代谢的基础和应用方面最令人兴奋和最重要的突破。在这次会议上，重点将放在微量元素铁（Fe）、铜（Cu）、锌（Zn）、硒（Se）和硼(B)上，因为它们构成了一组在生物学中起关键作用的微量元素。新发现的微量元素作为催化剂、传感器、调节分子和结构辅助因子发挥关键作用的生物过程的数量急剧增加，证明了这一研究领域正以极快的速度扩大。具体目标是：(1)组织和支持一次关于微量元素代谢研究领域最新科学进展的会议；(2)促进科学家和学员之间的互动，分享与正常生长有关的微量元素代谢领域的新发现；发展和营养，加强培训和新的合作，这将推动该领域向前发展，(3)直接让新独立的科学家和受训者，包括研究生和博士后、妇女、少数民族和残疾人参加会议。会议更广泛的影响包括通过口头和海报展示提供获得前沿科学的机会，允许学员和知名研究人员之间的互动机会，并鼓励和支持在这一重要研究领域取得长期和重大进展。

The FASEB Summer Research Conference on "Trace Element Metabolism: From Model Organisms to Humans" will be held at Snowmass, Colorado June 15-20, 2008. Trace elements are essential nutrients and, as such, are of vital importance in medicine, agriculture and the inter-relationship between agriculture and human health. This conference will focus on topics covering the most exciting and important breakthroughs in understanding both basic and applied aspects of trace element metabolism. In this meeting, the focus will be on the trace elements iron (Fe), copper (Cu), zinc (Zn), selenium (Se) and boron (B), as they constitute a group of trace elements that serve critical roles in biology. As is evidenced by the dramatic increase in the number of newly discovered biological processes in which trace elements play pivotal roles as catalysts, sensors, regulatory molecules and structural co-factors, this field of investigation is expanding at an extremely rapid pace. The specific objectives are to (1) organize and support a meeting on the latest scientific advances in the research area of trace element metabolism (2) promote interactions between scientists and trainees to share new discoveries in the field of trace element metabolism as it relates to normal growth, development and nutrition and to enhance training and new collaborations that will move the field forward and (3) to directly involve newly independent scientists and trainees including graduate students and postdoctoral fellows, women, minorities and the disabled in the conference. The broader impacts of the conference include providing access to cutting edge science via oral and poster presentations, to allow opportunities for interactions between trainees and established investigators and to encourage and support long-term and significant advances in this important area of research.