Conference: 2015 FASEB Summer Research Conference on Genetic Recombination and Chromosome Rearrangements to be held at Steamboat Springs, CO - July 19-24, 2015

FASEB夏季遗传修饰和染色体重排研究会议将于2015年7月19日至24日在科罗拉多的汽船泉举行。这是致力于促进DNA重组研究前沿的跨学科讨论的一系列两年一度的会议中的第十六届。2015年会议的特点是更加强调定量方法，为包括基因重组在内的各个领域带来新的理解;例如，高通量测序和拷贝数变异分析，以研究生物体内和种群间的全球基因组重排;基于质谱的方法，全球评估蛋白质和DNA标记;重组生物化学的单分子方法。本次会议的目标是汇集来自世界各地的研究人员谁在重组和基因组重排的相关领域的工作，并给年轻的和开始的研究人员有机会介绍和讨论他们的工作。会议的形式包括来自该领域领导者的特邀演讲者的演讲，从提交的摘要中选择的演讲者，以及海报会议。2015年，有47名特邀发言人，其中43%是女性（8名会议主席中有5名是女性），30%是新来的。从提交的摘要中填补的项目空缺数量已大幅增加（至24%），目的是增加代表性不足的团体和年轻科学家的参与机会和知名度。申请的资金将用于奖学金，以帮助支付8名年轻科学家的差旅费和会议费用。组织者将优先支持代表性不足的群体，并优先支持NSF基金的研究生和博士后研究员。

The FASEB Summer Research Conference on Genetic Recombination and Chromosome Rearrangements will be held at Steamboat Springs, Colorado on July 19-24, 2015. This is the sixteenth in a series of bi-annual conferences devoted to promoting cross-disciplinary discussion at the leading edge of research on DNA recombination. The 2015 meeting features an increased emphasis on quantitative approaches that bring new understanding to various areas comprising genetic recombination; for example, high-throughput sequencing and copy number variation analysis to study genome rearrangements globally within organisms and across populations; mass spectrometry-based methods that globally assess protein and DNA marks; single molecule approaches to recombination biochemistry. The goal of this conference is to bring together researchers from around the world who work in recombination and the related field of genomic rearrangements, and to give young and starting investigators the opportunity to present and discuss their work. The format of the meeting involves talks from invited speakers who are leaders in the field, speakers chosen from submitted abstracts, and poster sessions. For 2015, there are 47 invited speakers, 43% of whom are women (as are 5 of 8 session chairs) and 30% of whom are new to the conference. The number of program slots to be filled from submitted abstracts has been increased significantly (to 24%) with the goal of increasing participation opportunities and visibility for underrepresented groups and young scientists.The requested funds will be used for fellowships to help defray travel and meeting costs for 8 junior scientists. The organizers will prioritize support for underrepresented groups and preferentially graduate students and post-doctoral fellows with NSF funds.