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34届年会。会议将于2003年5月10日至14日在佛罗里达州迈阿密海滩举行。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、遗传疾病)；环境诱变及其应用：测试、监管问题和风险评估。年度会议将包括专题讨论会、海报和平台会议以及美国国立卫生研究院感兴趣的其他活动，包括：(I)DNA损伤和检查点信号，(Ii)胚胎和胎儿暴露于环境诱变剂和儿童健康，(Iii)儿童对环境诱变剂的易感性，(Iv)体细胞突变模型的进展，(V)低剂量致癌的潜在修饰物，(Vi)基因组不稳定，(Vii)DNA修复机制的组装和调节，(Viii)DNA切除修复，(Ix)风险评估中的作用方式，(X)计算和预测毒理学，(十一)环境诱变剂和致癌物，最新进展，(十二)环境对结肠癌的影响，以及(十三)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。学生成就奖将由提交摘要的学生颁发，学生将在会议上发表演讲。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、民族或残疾。

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 34th annual meeting of the Environmental Mutagen Society. The meeting will be held from May 10 to 14, 2003 in Miami Beach, Florida. 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); environmental mutagenesis 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 Institutes of Health including: (i) DNA damage and checkpoint signaling, (ii) embryonic and fetal exposure to environmental mutagens and children's health, (iii) children's susceptibility to environmental agents, (iv) advances in somatic mutation models, (v) potential modifiers of carcinogenesis at low doses, (vi) genomic instability, (vii) assembly and regulation of DNA repair mechanisms, (viii) DNA excision repair, (ix) mode of action in risk assessment, (x) computational and predictive toxicology, (xi) environmental mutagens and carcinogens, an update, (xii) impact of the environment on colon cancer, and (xiii) new perspectives from functional genomics and proteomics. Several activities to integrate students into the activities at the meeting and the EMS are also planned. Student Achievement Awards will be made from 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 or disability.