Symposium - Adaptations for Salt and Water Balance in Vertebrates, Nagoya Japan, May 31 - June 5, 2011

研讨会 - 脊椎动物盐水平衡的适应，日本名古屋，2011 年 5 月 31 日至 6 月 5 日

• 批准号: 1137275
• 负责人: Thomas Pannabecker
• 金额: $ 1.5万
• 依托单位: University of Arizona
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-05-15 至 2012-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1137275&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Symposium; Adaptations; Salt; Water; Balance

These funds support participation of graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, and younginvestigators at the International Conference on Comparative Physiology and Biochemistry(ICCPB 2011), to be held in Nagoya, Japan. Participants will build world-wide connections andgain cross-cultural exposure to institutions interested in global environmental effects on animals.Advances in understanding how animals adapt to environmental changes will support goals ofsafeguarding biodiversity at all levels. Funds will support individuals who have demonstratedexceptional aptitude and potential for advancing the field of epithelial fluid and solute dynamicsand its regulation. A select group of individuals will present talks in a symposium focusing onconcepts essential to understanding the role of epithelia in water and solute balance thisbalance has an overarching role in maintaining all life's basic functions. Epithelia are found in allorgans, and exist as sheets of cells, assembled together by precisely arranged junctional proteinsthat lie between cells. Notably, the dynamics of water and solute flows through cells of theepithelial sheet are highly integrated with flows through junctions of the epithelial sheet, in aregulated, but poorly understood fashion. The symposium speakers will stress the importance ofhow and why cell-to-cell contact and plasticity of these systems are fundamental to appropriatetissue water and solute dynamics for all vertebrates. Other individuals supported by this grantwill have the opportunity to present their research findings, face-to-face in poster sessions, withscientists from nearly every continent who work in widely diverse biological fields. A major goalwill be to identify and select women and individuals of underrepresented ethnic minoritybackground as recipients of these travel funds. Funding for student and trainee initiatives atICCPB 2011 will play a key role in attracting and retaining the brightest and best-trainedcomparative physiologists.

这些资金支持研究生、博士后研究员和年轻研究人员参加将于日本名古屋举行的国际比较生理学和生物化学会议（ICCPB 2011）。参与者将建立世界范围的联系，并获得对全球环境对动物影响感兴趣的机构的跨文化接触。了解动物如何适应环境变化的进展将支持在各个层面保护生物多样性的目标。资金将支持那些在推进上皮液和溶质动力学及其调节领域表现出非凡能力和潜力的个人。选定的一组人将在研讨会上发表演讲，重点关注理解上皮细胞在水和溶质平衡中的作用所必需的概念，这种平衡在维持所有生命的基本功能方面发挥着首要作用。上皮存在于所有器官中，以细胞片形式存在，由细胞之间精确排列的连接蛋白组装在一起。值得注意的是，流过上皮层细胞的水和溶质的动力学与流过上皮层连接处的流高度整合，以一种受调节但知之甚少的方式。研讨会发言人将强调这些系统的细胞间接触和可塑性如何以及为何对于所有脊椎动物适当的组织水和溶质动力学至关重要。受这笔赠款支持的其他个人将有机会在海报会议上与来自几乎各大洲、在广泛不同的生物领域工作的科学家面对面展示他们的研究成果。主要目标是确定并选择女性和少数族裔背景的个人作为这些旅行资金的接受者。 2011 年 ICCPB 为学生和实习生计划提供的资金将在吸引和留住最聪明、训练有素的比较生理学家方面发挥关键作用。