Developmental Biology Gordon Research Conference 2015, Hadley, Massachusetts, June 21-26, 2015

该奖项支持2015年戈登发育生物学研究会议。这次为期五天的会议自1970年开始举行，被认为是发育生物学领域的大型、中型会议，聚集了大约150名杰出的高级和初级科学家，讨论该领域的最新进展。29位受邀演讲者是根据他们对实地的创造性贡献和推动富有成果的讨论的能力挑选出来的，他们已确认出席。九场会议涵盖了该领域的经典主题和新兴领域：形态发生；表观遗传对发育的控制；细胞极性；干细胞生物学；发育中的小核糖核酸；细胞间信号转导；细胞内自组装；跨代遗传；转录和构图。这次会议的学术价值来自于它的小规模，这促进了参与者之间的互动，以及许多发育生物学顶尖科学家的聚集。它跨越了各种各样的实验系统，并专注于特别活跃或有希望的领域。这种结合导致了卓有成效的比较分析，提出了关于潜在机制的新问题，并经常导致新的合作。通过充分利用正式讨论和非正式互动，戈登发育生物学会议将有助于定义该领域的现状和未来。至于更广泛的影响，这次会议将在四个方面使更大的社区受益。首先，它将帮助培养和激励下一代科学家，让学生和博士后研究员接触到令人兴奋的科学和科学家。其次，它将为那些在较小的大学和高中教授科学的人提供一个论坛，听取最新的发现，并与专家讨论话题。第三，它将使初级教员受益，他们可以在演讲和海报中展示他们的工作，也可以结识发育生物学领域的更资深成员。每一次会议的发言时间都是从与会者提交的摘要中挑选出来的。第四，被邀请的演讲者中有一半是女性，两名是少数族裔。此外，我们将鼓励少数族裔参与。这些特点将为少数群体提供参加优秀会议的机会，反过来，它将使所有与会者有机会了解他们的少数群体和女性同事进行的令人兴奋的研究。

This award supports the 2015 Gordon Research Conference on Developmental Biology. This five-day conference, which has been running since 1970, is recognized as the major, mid-size meeting in Developmental Biology, bringing together about 150 outstanding senior and junior scientists for discussions of the recent advances in the field. Twenty-nine invited speakers, chosen based on their creative contributions to the field and their ability to promote fruitful discussions, have confirmed their attendance. The nine sessions cover classic topics and emerging areas in the field: Morphogenesis; Epigenetic Control of Development; Cellular Polarity; Stem Cell Biology; Small ncRNAs in Development; Intercellular Signaling; Self-Assembly within Cells; Transgenerational Inheritance; Transcription and Patterning. The intellectual merit of this meeting derives from its small size, which promotes interactions between participants, and the assembly of many top scientists in developmental biology. It spans a wide variety of experimental systems and focuses on areas of exceptional activity or promise. This combination leads to fruitful comparative analyses, raises new questions about underlying mechanisms and often leads to new collaborations. By maximizing both formal discussion and informal interactions, the Gordon Conference on Developmental Biology will help to define both the present state and the future of the field. With respect to broader impacts, this meeting will benefit the larger community in four respects. First, it will help train and inspire the next generation of scientists, by exposing students and postdoctoral fellows to exciting science and scientists. Second, it will be a forum for those who teach science in smaller colleges and high schools, to hear about the latest findings and to discuss topics with experts. Third, it will benefit junior faculty who can present their work in talks and posters and who can get to know the more senior members of the developmental biology field. For each session, time has been allotted for speakers chosen from abstracts submitted by the participants. Fourth, half of the invited speakers are women and two are minorities. In addition, we will encourage minorities to participate. These features will offer opportunities to minorities to participate in an excellent conference, and conversely, it will give all participants the opportunity to learn about exciting research conducted by their minority and female colleagues.