Fourth International Conf. on Relaxin & Related Peptides

简介（由申请人提供）：Relaxin 2004是第四届关于松弛素和相关肽的国际会议，将于2004年9月5日至9月10日在大提顿国家公园的杰克逊湖小屋举行。“Relaxin 2004”的参加者不仅包括研究生、博士后研究员、学术机构基础科学和临床部门的教员，还包括研究机构、医院和商业公司的科学家。这次会议有五个主要目标。第一个是在非正式的环境中召集世界上所有从事松弛素和松弛素相关肽研究的科学家，不仅促进广泛和自由的思想交流，还促进后续合作研究的形成。第二个目标是招募和激励年轻的研究者从事松弛素和相关肽的研究。第三个目标是促进那些目前还没有从事松弛素和/或松弛素相关肽研究的基础和临床科学家的参加，以激发他们的兴趣。第四个目标是提供一个科学计划，提供全面覆盖关于松弛素和松弛素相关肽的基础和临床研究的最新发现。第五个目标是将Relaxin 2004的会议记录出版成一本高质量的书，以确保会议记录在整个科学界广泛传播。在这方面，Relaxin 2004的论文集已被暂时批准在《纽约科学院年鉴》上发表。会议的主题包括(1)松弛素和相关肽的结构，(2)松弛素和相关肽的结构/活性关系，(3)松弛素和相关肽受体的结构，(4)松弛素的生殖生理，(5)松弛素对大脑、心脏、肾脏和肝脏的非生殖作用，(6)松弛素对组织生长和重塑的作用，(7)松弛素诱导的信号转导途径，(8)松弛素相关肽的生理作用，(9)松弛素用于家畜和人的诊断和/或治疗的临床应用。这项申请的目的是获得资助，通过大幅降低将在2004年Relaxin展示其研究成果的年轻科学家的注册费，来帮助实现第二个目标。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Relaxin 2004, which will be the 4th international conference on relaxin and related peptides, will be held from September 5 through September 10, 2004 at Jackson Lake Lodge in Grand Teton National Park. Participants at Relaxin 2004 will include not only graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and faculty from basic science and clinical departments in academic institutions, but also scientists from research institutes, hospitals, and commercial companies. The conference has five primary goals. The first is to assemble essentially all of the scientists in the world conducting research on relaxin and relaxin-related peptides in an informal setting that fosters not only extensive and free exchange of ideas but also the formation of subsequent collaborative studies. The second goal is to recruit and motivate young investigators to pursue research on relaxin and related peptides. The third goal is to promote the attendance of basic and clinical scientists who are not presently conducting research on relaxin and/or relaxin-related peptides in order to stimulate their interest in doing so. The fourth goal is to deliver a scientific program that provides comprehensive coverage of recent findings concerning both basic and clinical research on relaxin and relaxin-related peptides. The fifth goal is to publish the proceedings of Relaxin 2004 in a high quality book that assures that the proceedings are broadly distributed throughout the scientific community. In that regard the proceedings of Relaxin 2004 has been provisionally approved for publication in the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. Topics to be covered at the conference are (1) Structure of relaxin and related peptides, (2) Structure/activity relationships of relaxin and related peptides, (3) Structure of relaxin and related peptide receptors, (4) Reproductive physiology of relaxin, (5) Nonreproductive effects of relaxin on the brain, heart, kidney, and liver, (6) Relaxin's effects on tissue growth and remodeling, (7) Relaxin-induced signal transduction pathways, (8) Physiological effects of relaxin-related peptides, and (9) Clinical uses of relaxin for diagnosis and/or treatment in domestic animals and humans. This application is to obtain funding that will assist in the attainment of the second goal by markedly reducing the registration fee for young scientists who will present their research at Relaxin 2004. Conference web site: http://www.life.uiuc.edu/relaxin2004/