Student Travel to the Environmental Mutagen Society

描述(由申请人提供) 这项提议的目的是申请会议支助资金，向研究生发放旅费补助金，以便利他们参加环境诱变剂学会第33届年会。会议将于2002年4月27日至5月2日在亚利桑那州安克雷奇举行。环境诱变剂学会(EMS)是促进对诱变的基本机制以及这些知识在遗传毒理学领域的应用进行研究的主要科学协会。科学兴趣的核心领域包括：DNA损伤剂的暴露、检测和代谢；对DNA损伤的反应(DNA修复和重组、基因表达的变化、细胞周期的影响)；突变机制(自发和与暴露有关)；DNA技术；分子流行病学；对人类健康的影响(发育、癌症、衰老、遗传病)；以及应用：测试、监管问题和风险评估。年会将包括专题讨论会、海报和平台会议以及国家癌症研究所感兴趣的其他活动，包括：衰老和癌症中的线粒体DNA损伤、遗传不稳定、遗传多样性和疾病、DNA修复和重组中的双链DNA断裂、复杂病变的DNA修复和突变、DNA聚合酶抑制以及功能基因组学和蛋白质组学的新视角。还计划了几项活动，以使学生参与会议和EMS的活动。提交论文摘要并在会议上发表的学生将获奖。选择获奖者的主要标准将是摘要的科学质量、导师的推荐信以及摘要与环境管理体系的科学兴趣的相关性。奖项将不分性别、种族或民族。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant) The purpose of this proposal is to request conference support funds to award travel grants to graduate students to facilitate their attendance at the 33rd annual meeting of the Environmental Mutagen Society. The meeting will be held from April 27 to May 2, 2002 in Anchorage, AL. The Environmental Mutagen Society (EMS) is the primary scientific society fostering research on the basic mechanisms of mutagenesis as well as on the application of this knowledge in the field of genetic toxicology. Core areas of scientific interest include: Exposure, detection and metabolism of DNA damaging agents; responses to DNA damage (DNA repair and recombination, changes in gene expression, cell cycle effects); mutational mechanisms (spontaneous and exposure related); DNA technologies; molecular epidemiology; human health effects (developmental, cancer, aging, genetic disease); and applications: testing, regulatory issues and risk assessment. The annual meeting will include symposia, poster and platform sessions and other activities of interest to the National Cancer Institute including: mitochondrial DNA damage in aging and carcinogenesis, genetic instability, genetic diversity and disease, double strand DNA breaks in DNA repair and recombination, DNA repair and mutagenesis with complex lesions, DNA polymerase arrest, and new perspectives from functional genomics and proteomics. Several activities to integrate students into the activities at the meeting and the EMS are also planned. Awards will be made to students who submit an abstract for a presentation to be made at the meeting. Primary criteria for selection of awardees will be the scientific quality of the abstract, a letter of recommendation from the mentor and the relevance of the abstract to the scientific interests of the EMS. Awards will be made without regard to gender, race or ethnicity.