FASEB 2017 Conference on Genetic Recombination and Genome Rearrangements; July 16-21, 2017, Steamboat Springs, Colorado

关于基因重组和染色体重排的FASEB研究会议将于2017年7月16-21日在科罗拉多州的斯普林斯举行。这是致力于在DNA重组研究的前沿促进跨学科讨论的一系列两年一度的会议中的第十七次。2017年会议更加重视量化方法，使人们对包括基因重组在内的各个领域有了新的理解；例如，高通量测序和拷贝数变异分析，以研究全球生物内和跨种群的基因组重排；基于质谱学的方法，对蛋白质和DNA标记进行全球评估；单分子方法，用于重组生物化学。这次会议还包括了解和利用CRISPR-CAS9等新兴基因组工程技术所需的研究。这次会议的目标是将来自世界各地从事重组和相关基因组重排领域的研究人员聚集在一起，并让年轻的和初学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，从提交的摘要中挑选的演讲者，以及海报会议。2017年有47位受邀发言者，其中36%是女性(包括主旨发言人)，30%是大会新成员。由提交的摘要填补的计划名额已大幅增加(至24%)，目的是增加未被充分代表的群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10名初级科学家的旅费和会议费用。组织者将优先支持代表性不足的群体，并优先支持拥有NSF资金的研究生和博士后研究员。

The FASEB Research Conference on Genetic Recombination and Chromosome Rearrangements will be held at Steamboat Springs, Colorado on July 16-21, 2017. This is the seventeenth in a series of bi-annual conferences devoted to promoting cross-disciplinary discussion at the leading edge of research on DNA recombination. The 2017 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. This meeting also features research that is needed to understand and exploit emerging genome engineering technologies such as CRISPR-Cas9.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 2017, there are 47 invited speakers, 36% of whom are women (including the keynote speaker) 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 10 junior scientists. The organizers will prioritize support for underrepresented groups and preferentially graduate students and post-doctoral fellows with NSF funds.