Conference: FASEB Yeast Chromosome and Cell Cycle Conference 2024

该奖项是为了支持FASEB酵母染色体和细胞周期会议，该会议将于2024年6月23日至27日在马尼托巴省温尼伯举行。这是一个成熟的会议，在过去的30年里每两年举行一次，虽然它关注的是最容易理解的模型系统之一，出芽和裂变酵母，但值得注意的是，它继续推动这一领域的概念和技术界限，即使在其他系统的研究进展中。会议将包括8次全体会议，每次会议将有5-8次20分钟的发言。大约三分之二的演讲者是受邀的，其余的将从投稿的摘要中选出，重点是早期的职业科学家。此外，几乎所有提供海报的与会者还将进行简短的海报入门讲座，向其他与会者介绍他们的海报主题和他们自己。本次会议将有代表所有职业阶段的与会者，从学生到已建立的研究人员，有许多活动，以促进网络。组委会将特别努力为不同的青年科学家提供全体演讲机会。值得注意的是，所有NSF的资金将用于支持受训者和年轻研究者的参与，重点是那些历史上代表性不足的群体以及有经济需要的群体。会议计划中有85%的演讲者在过去5年里没有出席过会议（尽管许多备受瞩目的领域资深研究人员将主持会议并激发讨论）。超过一半的演讲者将是女性，约20%的演讲者将来自历史上在STEM中代表性不足的群体。会议聚焦于生物科学领域广泛关注的主题，特别是“染色质和核组织”、“细胞周期调控”、“染色体复制”、“端粒和双链断裂修复”、“重组和基因组稳定性”、“基因组进化”、“染色体结构动力学”和“染色体分离机制”。会议还将包括在会议开始时成对的导师/学员谈话。此外，会议早期还将举行“会见专家”和职业发展会议，在会议中，高级发言者被分配到桌子上，更多的初级与会者加入他们进行非正式讨论，以鼓励和帮助早期职业科学家在这一领域取得进展。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This award is for support of the FASEB Yeast Chromosome and Cell Cycle Conference, to be held June 23-27 2024 in Winnipeg, Manitoba. This is a well-established conference that has occurred biennially for the past 30 years and, while it focuses on one of the most well-understood model systems, budding and fission yeasts, it is notable for continuing to push the conceptual and technological boundaries in this field, even as study in other systems advance. The meeting will include 8 plenary sessions, each of which will have 5-8 20 minute presentations. Approximately two-thirds of the speakers are by invitation, and the remainder will be selected from contributed abstracts, with an emphasis on early career scientists. In addition, nearly all attendees giving posters will also present short Poster Primer talks, introducing their poster topics, and themselves, to the other participants. This meeting will have attendees representing all career stages, from students to established investigators, with numerous activities to facilitate networking. The organizing committee will make a special effort to provide plenary speaking opportunities to diverse junior scientists as well. Notably, all NSF funds will be used to support participation by trainees and young investigators, with an emphasis on those from historically underrepresented groups as well as those with financial need.The conference program features 85% of speakers that have not presented in the past 5 years (though many high-profile, senior researchers in the field will chair sessions and stimulate discussion. Over half the speakers will be female, and ~20% of speakers will be from groups historically underrepresented in STEM. The conference focuses on topics of broad interest in biological sciences, notably "Chromatin and Nuclear Organization", "Cell Cycle Regulation", "Chromosome Duplication", "Telomeres and Double-strand Break Repair", "Recombination and Genome Stability", "Genome Evolution", "Dynamics of Chromosome Structure", and "Chromosome Segregation Mechanisms". Sessions will also include paired mentor/mentee talks at the beginning of the session. In addition, a "Meet the Expert" and a Career Development session will be held early in the conference in which senior speakers are assigned to tables where more junior participants join them for informal discussions to encourage and help early-career scientists progress in this field.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.