International Workshops on Iron and Copper Homeostasis

描述(由申请人提供)： 这项奖励将资助15名美国科学家和5名美国博士后和博士后实习生出席和参加2004年11月10日至14日在智利PUC“n举行的”第三届铁和铜稳态国际研讨会“的旅费和相关费用，以及每两年一次的额外研讨会。受训者将成为正式参与者，并展示他们工作的海报。出席会议的还有来自拉丁美洲、欧洲、加拿大、以色列、澳大利亚和日本的类似数量的外国科学家，以及数量较多的外国博士后和博士后学生，但不包括在这项基金提案中。研讨会的组织者是纽约州立大学布法罗分校生物化学教授Michael Garrick博士和智利大学理学院细胞生物学教授Marco T.Nu$ez博士。我们现在将前两个研讨会的目标扩展到与其他金属的相互作用，并继续加强铁和铜代谢研究的国际科学合作，并激发青年科学家和学生对与了解毒理学、健康和疾病状态高度相关的领域的兴趣。铁和铜代谢领域的主要科学家出席会议，现在扩大到选定的其他金属，加上来自拉丁美洲杰出实验室的代表，已经并可能继续导致更紧密的一体化努力。该讲习班是在1999年11月和2001年11月在智利临市局举办的第一次和第二次铁和铜稳态问题国际讲习班之后举行的。参加每个研讨会的有来自以色列、日本、欧洲、加拿大、澳大利亚和智利的美国科学家，以及越来越多(从第一名到第二名)的本科生和研究生，其中包括两名来自美国的学生。第一期讲习班之后，科学协作网络开始形成。值得注意的是，尽管第二期讲习班是在2001年9月11日之后不久举行的，但还是扩大了这一网络。组织者面临着对续集和系列剧的需求。显然，人们可以期待第三次和第五次会议将前两次会议的成功扩大到更多的科学家和受训人员以及更多相互作用的金属

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This award will support travel, and related expenses for fifteen U.S. scientists and five U.S. pre- and post-doctoral trainees to attend and participate in the "Third International Workshop on Iron and Copper Homeostasis", to be held in Puc"n, Chile, November 10-14, 2004 and two additional workshops at biennial intervals. The trainees will be full participants and present posters on their work. Also attending, but not included in this proposal for funds, is a similar number of foreign scientists, from Latin America, Europe, Canada, Israel, Australia and Japan and a larger number of foreign pre- and post-doctoral students. The workshop organizers are Dr. Michael Garrick, Professor of Biochemistry, State University of New York at Buffalo and Dr. Marco T. Nu$ez, Professor in Cell Biology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Chile. We now extend the objective of the first two workshops to interactions with other metals, and to continue to strengthen international scientific collaboration in research on iron and copper metabolism and to stimulate the interest of young scientists and students in an area highly relevant to the understanding of toxicology, health and disease states. The attendance of leading scientists in the field of iron and of copper metabolism, expanded now to selected other metals plus representatives from outstanding Latin American laboratories has already led to and will likely continue to lead to closer integration efforts. This Workshop follows the First and Second International Workshops on Iron and Copper Homeostasis held in Puc"n, Chile, November 1999 and 2001. Each workshop was attended by U.S. scientists, scientists from Israel, Japan, Europe, Canada, Australia and Chile and increasing (from first to second) numbers of graduate and postgraduate students including two from the United States. A network of scientific collaboration began to develop after the First Workshop. Remarkably the Second Workshop extended this network despite being held shortly after September 11,2001. The organizers face a demand for a continuation and series. Clearly one can expect the third - fifth conferences to extend the success of the previous two to more scientists and trainees and more interacting metals