SCDB Meeting:Innovations in Development University of California SC August 08-11, 2012

科学会议在由国家科学基金会和其他国家和国际来源资助的科学家之间交流新思想和成果方面发挥着至关重要的作用。由于科学研究的成功越来越多地建立在最近的技术进步和发现的基础上，这种交流有助于加速重要的研究，增加研究资金的回报。这项提案将资助一个全国性的发育生物学家会议，2012年圣克鲁斯发育生物学会议，今年的主题是发育生物学创新。这个两年一度的会议是发育生物学领域的两个主要会议之一。2012年会议由鲍勃·戈尔茨坦、阿曼德·克拉克和约翰·塔姆昆组织，将于8月8日至11日在加州大学圣克鲁斯校区举行。将有大约160名与会者，包括28名特邀演讲者和一名诺贝尔奖获得者和另外两名科学家在该领域的最新进展的主题演讲。每个演讲者将介绍他/她的实验室最近的研究成果，并将举行关于职业发展问题的讲习班。会议的更广泛影响将包括研究生和博士后研究员的教育和培训，他们将成为未来的教育家，学术科学家和行业科学家。组织者选择受邀演讲者的主要依据是他们对该领域的贡献，因此他们有可能为推动该领域发展的交流做出重大贡献，其次是平衡职业阶段、地理、性别、年龄、种族和实验方法，以帮助确保广泛接触各种新颖的贡献以及年轻科学家职业发展的宝贵榜样。会议结束时，将通过在科学期刊上发表广泛传播会议成果。

Scientific conferences serve a vital role in the exchange of new ideas and results among scientists funded by the NSF and by other national and international sources. Because the success of scientific research builds increasingly on very recent technical advances and findings, such exchanges serve to accelerate important research, increasing the return on research funding. This proposal will fund a national conference for developmental biologists, the 2012 Santa Cruz Developmental Biology Meeting, centered this year on the theme of Innovations in Developmental Biology. This biennial conference is one of the two major conferences in the field of developmental biology. The 2012 conference, organized by Bob Goldstein, Amander Clark and John Tamkun, will be held August 8-11 on the University of California, Santa Cruz campus. There will be approximately 160 participants, including 28 invited speakers and keynote lectures on recent advances from a Nobel Laureate and two other scientists at the forefront of the field. Each speaker will present results from his/her laboratory's recent research, and workshops will be held on career development issues. Broader impacts from the conference will include the education and training of graduate students and postdoctoral fellows who will become the educators, academic scientists and industry scientists of the future. Invited speakers were selected by the organizers based primarily on their contributions to the field and hence the likelihood that they would contribute significantly to exchanges that will advance the field, and secondarily balancing career stage, geography, gender, age, race, and experimental approaches, to help ensure broad exposure to a variety of novel contributions as well as valuable role models for the career development of young scientists. At the conclusion of the conference, results presented will be disseminated widely through publication in scientific journals.