Conference: 20th Annual Southeastern Regional Yeast Meeting to be held March 8-10, 2013 at the University of Alabama at Birmingham

智力优势：第20届年度东南地区酵母会议（SERYM）将于2013年3月8日至10日在伯明翰的亚拉巴马大学校园举行。本次年会为来自美国东南部各州的酵母研究人员提供了一个独特的机会，让他们聚集在一起分享他们的初步研究成果，并讨论新的研究工具和新兴技术。作为模式生物，酵母是研究复杂分子、细胞和生化过程的理想选择。研究这些简单真核生物的研究人员在DNA损伤/修复、RNA加工、细胞周期进程、染色体分离和细胞器生物发生/维持等领域做出了重大贡献。 组织这次会议是为了鼓励学生参与平台和海报展示，为学生参与者提供及时的绩效评估，并为学生提供与出席的高级科学家进行一对一科学互动的机会。2013年的会议将有一个完整的时间表，主要是学生和博士后学员的海报和口头介绍，以及该领域领导者兰迪·谢克曼的主题演讲（加州大学伯克利分校）。SERYM 2013会议汇集了研究真菌基本生物过程的科学家，从而为交流研究成果提供了一个合作论坛，思想和技术专长。这次会议的一个关键优势是为本科生和研究生提供了以平台和/或海报形式展示他们研究的机会。 超过一半的参与者是学生或博士后培训生;这些群体通常占平台演讲的60%和海报展示的88%。这些演讲将由指定的法官进行评估，奖项将颁发给前两名的口头和海报介绍，所有学员将收到他们的评审表，以提供宝贵的反馈。 为了增加本科生和研究生的参与，这些学生来自科学界代表性不足的群体，他们从未参加过这次会议，并且有经济需要，将颁发16个旅行奖，以帮助支付会议费用。本次会议的区域性为学生提供了与领先科学家（通常是第一次）讨论他们的研究工作的机会，为未来的科学发展和合作奠定了基础。SERYM会议让学生从使用酵母的研究中了解分子和细胞生物学领域的最新进展，从而提供了一个刺激和有益的教育体验。

Intellectual Merit: The 20th Annual Southeastern Regional Yeast Meeting (SERYM) will be held on the campus of University of Alabama at Birmingham from March 8-10, 2013. This annual meeting provides a unique opportunity for yeast researchers from states in the Southeastern region of the U.S. to come together to share their preliminary research findings and discuss new research tools and emerging technologies. As model organisms, yeasts are ideal for the study of complex molecular, cellular, and biochemical processes. Researchers studying these simple eukaryotes have made significant contributions in areas as diverse as DNA damage/repair, RNA processing, cell cycle progression, chromosome segregation and organelle biogenesis/ maintenance. The meeting has been organized to encourage student participation in both platform and poster presentations, provide student participants with timely evaluations of their performance, and provide students with opportunities for one-on-one scientific interactions with senior scientists in attendance. The 2013 meeting will feature a full schedule of poster and oral presentation by predominantly student and post-doctoral trainees and a keynote lecture by a leader in the field, Randy Schekman (University of California-Berkeley).Broader Impacts: The SERYM 2013 conference brings together scientists studying basic biological processes in fungi and thus provides a collaborative forum for the exchange of research results, ideas and technical expertise. A key strength of this meeting is the opportunity for both undergraduate and graduate students to present their research in platform and/or poster formats. More than half of the participants are students or postdoctoral trainees; these groups generally present 60% of the platform talks and 88% of the poster presentations. These presentations will be evaluated by assigned judges, awards will be presented to the top two oral and poster presentation and all trainees will receive their judging sheets to provide valuable feedback. To increase participation of undergraduate and graduate students from groups that are underrepresented in the sciences, who have never attended this meeting and who have financial need, 16 travel awards will be made to help defray meeting costs. The regional nature of this meeting provides opportunities for students to discuss their research work with leading scientists (often for the first time), laying the foundation for future scientific development and collaborations. The SERYM meeting exposes students to recent advances in the fields of molecular and cell biology from studies using yeast and thus provides a stimulating and rewarding educational experience.