2008 RustBelt RNA meeting being held October 17-18, 2008 in Mt. Sterling, OH

2008 RustBelt RNA 会议将于 2008 年 10 月 17 日至 18 日在俄亥俄州斯特林山举行

• 批准号: 0902166
• 负责人: Girish Shukla
• 金额: $ 0.72万
• 依托单位: Cleveland State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-10-15 至 2009-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0902166&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: 2008; RustBelt; RNA; meeting; being

The 2008 Rustbelt RNA Meeting (RRM) will be held October 17-18, 2008, in the Lodge at Deer Creek State Park & Resort in Mt. Sterling, OH. The RRM is the major Midwest regional meeting of RNA researchers. The 2007 RRM was attended by 170 participants including principal investigators (PIs), postdoctoral fellows, graduate, and undergraduate students from both research intensive and primarily undergraduate institutions in Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, and Pennsylvania, as well as farther away (Delaware and New Jersey). Based on attendance in previous years, approximately 170 participants are expected in 2008. The RRM was created in 1999 to address the need of RNA researchers in the Midwest for a regional meeting that includes not only faculty but also postdoctoral fellows and students (trainees). Originally, the venue was chosen to be easily accessible to researchers in an area bounded by Cleveland, Columbus, and Pittsburgh. Due to the success and popularity of the RRM, this area has been broadened to include Indiana, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and adjoining states.The intellectual objective of the RRM is to provide an inexpensive, high caliber, interdisciplinary meeting for RNA researchers in the Midwest. The field of RNA structure, function, and processing is growing at a rapid pace and RNA has been shown to be intimately involved in many important biological phenomena such as carcinogenesis and development, in addition to its obvious prominent role in transcription and translation. At the same time, the methods used to study RNA are becoming more and more diverse ranging from synthetic and physical chemistry over biochemistry, genetics, and biophysical approaches all the way to computational methods. Consequently, research groups need a forum where they can hear and discuss new results and techniques in all areas of RNA research that can result in furthering an individual lab?s aims. The size and organization of the meeting has proven to be an excellent environment for active discussions between research groups, including those between PIs and between PIs and trainees, as well as between trainees themselves. Such interactions are more difficult at larger national meetings.An important feature of the RRM is its role in the intellectual and professional development of trainee and junior faculty. The RRM encourages participation by graduate and undergraduate students from institutions ranging from large research -intensive universities to small, primarily undergraduate colleges. With its strong emphasis on trainee participation, the RRM is especially helpful in strengthening the speaking and presentation skills of trainees,who account for the vast majority ( ~ 90%) of both poster and oral presentations. In addition, the RRM is an excellent forum for junior PIs to showcase their emerging research programs.

2008年锈带RNA会议（RRM）将于2008年10月17日至18日在俄亥俄州斯特林山的鹿溪州立公园度假村举行。RRM是中西部地区RNA研究人员的主要会议。2007年的RRM有170名参与者参加，其中包括来自俄亥俄州、密歇根州、印第安纳州、伊利诺伊州、肯塔基州和宾夕法尼亚州以及更远的特拉华州和新泽西州的研究密集型和主要本科院校的首席研究员（pi）、博士后、研究生和本科生。根据往年的出席人数，2008年预计约有170名与会者。RRM成立于1999年，目的是满足中西部地区RNA研究人员召开区域性会议的需求，该会议不仅包括教职员工，还包括博士后研究员和学生（实习生）。最初，选择地点是为了便于研究人员在克利夫兰、哥伦布和匹兹堡附近的地区进行研究。由于RRM的成功和普及，该地区已扩大到包括印第安纳州、密歇根州、宾夕法尼亚州和邻近的州。RRM的智力目标是为中西部的RNA研究人员提供一个廉价、高水平、跨学科的会议。RNA的结构、功能和加工领域正在快速发展，RNA除了在转录和翻译中发挥明显的突出作用外，还被证明与许多重要的生物现象密切相关，如致癌和发展。与此同时，用于研究RNA的方法也变得越来越多样化，从合成化学和物理化学到生物化学、遗传学和生物物理方法，一直到计算方法。因此，研究小组需要一个论坛，在那里他们可以听到和讨论RNA研究各个领域的新结果和新技术，从而促进个人实验室的发展。年代的目标。会议的规模和组织已被证明是研究小组之间积极讨论的良好环境，包括pi之间，pi与学员之间以及学员之间。这样的互动在大型全国性会议上更为困难。RRM的一个重要特点是它在培训生和初级教师的智力和专业发展中所起的作用。RRM鼓励从大型研究型大学到小型本科学院的研究生和本科生参与。RRM非常强调学员的参与，特别有助于加强学员的演讲和陈述技巧，他们占绝大多数（~ 90%）的海报和口头陈述。此外，RRM是初级pi展示其新兴研究项目的绝佳论坛。