Gordon Conference on Fertilization and Egg Activation

描述(申请者提供)：第14届戈登研究 受精和激活发展会议将提供 介绍和讨论这方面的新发展和想法的论坛 激动人心的、快速前进的领域。会议将在霍尔德内斯酒店举行 学校，普利茅斯，新汉普郡，2001年7月29日至8月3日。这次会议有 自1974年以来每两年举行一次。这是戈登研究公司唯一的 关于雄配子和雌配子相互作用的会议 在受精和受精卵激活的重要过程中 开始胚胎形成的过程。它为互动提供了场所 生物化学家，细胞生物学家，分子生物学家，生理学家， 遗传学家和生物物理学家在这一领域工作。这次会议一直是 在促进完全不同的国家之间的合作方面非常成功 经验和资历以及在这个国家的研究实验室和 在欧洲、日本、澳大利亚和拉丁美洲。这些合作已经产生了 取得了许多丰硕成果。 在戈登研究所之后，会议将有九个会议 会议格式。八场会议将集中讨论：1)游戏能力；2) 精子与卵细胞外衣的相互作用；3)精子的空间组织 配子信号；4)介导精卵质膜的分子 识别和融合；5)精子启动卵子激活；6)下游 EGG激活事件；7)皮质颗粒动力学；8)翻译 配子发生和早期胚胎发育过程中的调控。这些 课程将包括预定的演讲者和选定的简短演讲 从海报和/或最新话题中选择。这些后一轮会谈将 特别是初级科学家，包括博士后出纳员和 学生们。此外，申请者还将有一位主讲人 周二晚间会议。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Fourteenth Gordon Research Conference on Fertilization and the Activation of Development will provide a forum for presentation and discussion of new developments and ideas in this exciting, rapidly advancing field. This meeting will be held at the Holderness School, Plymouth, New Hampshire, July 29 - August 3, 2001. This conference has been held every two years since 1974. It is the only Gordon Research Conference concerned with the interaction of the male and the female gametes in the vital process of fertilization and activation of the fertilized egg to begin the process of embryo formation. It provides a venue for the interaction of biochemists, cell biologists, molecular biologists, physiologists, geneticists and biophysicists working in the field. This conference has been singularly successful in fostering collaborations between widely disparate experience and seniority and between research laboratories in this country and in Europe, Japan, Australia and Latin America. These collaborations have borne many fruitful results. There will be nine sessions in the conference, following the Gordon Research Conference format. Eight sessions will focus on: 1) Gametic competence; 2) Sperm interaction with the egg extracellular coat; 3) Spatial organization of gametic signaling; 4) Molecules mediating sperm-egg plasma membrane recognition and fusion; 5) Sperm initiation of egg activation; 6) Downstream events of egg activation; 7) Cortical granule dynamics; 8) Translational regulation during gametogenesis and early embryonic development. These sessions will include both scheduled speakers as well as selected short talks chosen from posters and/ or late breaking topics. These latter talks will particularly feature junior scientists, including postdoctoral tellers and students. In addition the applicant will have a key note speaker for the Tuesday evening session.