Testis Workshop

描述(由申请者提供)：本提案的目的是支持青年研究人员参加第十届男性生殖功能基因组学研讨会。会议将于2003年3月26日至29日在亚利桑那州凤凰城的喜来登新月酒店举行，紧接着美国男科学学会(ASA)年会。年轻研究人员主要被定义为在获得博士学位五年内(主要是博士后和住院医师实习生)，但研究生也将被考虑获奖。睾丸研讨会是一个由研究人员发起的会议，最初成立于1972年。该讲习班有从男性生殖领域内外招募顶尖专家的传统，以提供最先进的演讲，为我们的科学互动提供信息并相互促进。这种形式旨在通过广泛讨论的一系列讲座以及两次海报会议提供新知识。获奖者将在海报环节展示研究数据。2003年睾丸研讨会的主题是“男性生殖的功能基因组学”。这一主题是基于一个新的认识，即丰富的功能基因组学方法将带来对睾丸发育和功能潜在机制的新理解，增强我们对男性生殖功能的不断展开的知识，并最终转化为临床诊断和方法。该计划将突出发现与睾丸、生殖细胞和男性生殖相关的发育和生理过程中的基因功能的策略的价值。组织者的目标是激发参加会议的年轻研究人员的智力，并鼓励他们在这一对人类生殖健康如此重要的领域研究的前沿追求自己的职业生涯。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The objective of this proposal is to support participation of young investigators at the XVIIth Testis Workshop on Functional Genomics of Male Reproduction. This will be held March 26-29, 2003 at the Sheraton Crescent Hotel in Phoenix, Arizona, directly preceding the American Society for Andrology (ASA) annual meeting. Young investigators are defined primarily as those within five years of receipt of the Ph.D. degree (principally postdoctoral and medical residency trainees), but graduate students will also be considered for awards. The Testis Workshop is an investigator-initiated meeting, originally established in 1972. The Workshop has a tradition of recruiting top experts from both within and outside the area of male reproduction to give state-of-the-art presentations to both inform and cross-fertilize our scientific interactions. The format is geared to providing new knowledge in a series of talks with extensive discussion as well as in two poster sessions. Awardees will be presenting research data in the poster session. The theme for the 2003 Testis Workshop will be "functional genomics of male reproduction." This theme is based on the emerging understanding that the rich approaches of functional genomics will bring new understanding to mechanisms underlying testis development and function, enhance our unfolding knowledge of male reproductive function and ultimately translate to clinical diagnostics and approaches. The program will highlight the value of strategies that discover gene function in developmental and physiological processes relevant to the testis, the germ cell and male reproduction in general. It is the aim of the organizers that the young investigators participating in the conference will be stimulated intellectually and encouraged to pursue their careers at the forefront of research in this area so important to human reproductive health.