Student and Postdoctoral Level Investigator Travel Awards at 2005 EMS Meeting

描述（由申请人提供）：环境诱变剂协会年会为学生和博士后水平的研究人员提供了一个论坛，可以展示他们的研究成果，并与该领域的一些顶尖科学家进行互动。这种环境鼓励思想和实验结果的公开交流。2006年年会将于2006年9月16日至20日在加拿大不列颠哥伦比亚省温哥华举行。会议计划包括关于当前感兴趣的主题的专题讨论会，研究者提交报告的海报和平台会议以及其他特别活动，如全体会议和专题早餐，旨在向与会者介绍环境诱变研究的最新进展。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Environmental Mutagen Society's Annual Meeting provides a forum for students and postdoctoral level investigators to present their research and to interact with some of the leading scientists in their field. This setting encourages an open exchange of ideas and experimental findings. The 2006 Annual Meeting will be held in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada from September 16-20, 2006. The meeting program consists of symposium talks on current topics of interest, poster and platform sessions for investigator-submitted presentations and other special events, such as plenary sessions and special topic breakfasts, designed to inform attendees about the latest advances in environmental mutagenesis research. In recent years, studies of the Environmental Mutagen Society (EMS) scientists have provided significant segments of the information base for understanding how threats to human health accrue from exposure to genotoxic chemicals and radiations in the environment. These observations have been integrated with studies of inherited and acquired genetic alterations that predispose individuals to cancer, premature aging, and other diseases. The sequencing of the entire human genome, as well as that of many other organisms, along with the development of powerful new technologies, now promise to yield even more impressive advances in the coming decade. In aggregate, this work brings into focus the possibility of identifying and reducing most of the principal environmental hazards that threaten our health and that of the planet. These hazards, including genotoxicants, infectious agents and chemicals that adversely effect important cellular processes, remain the central foci of the studies of EMS members and advances in these areas are presented at their Annual Meetings. The EMS believes that the students and postdoctoral level investigators are the future of both the Society and the science endeavors fostered by its community of scientists. Travel awards assist in offsetting the financial burden of attending the EMS Annual Meeting. Without this assistance many of the student and postdoctoral level investigator members would not be able to take advantage of the rich exchange of scientific information and new ideas generated at this scientific meeting. In this proposal, the investigators are requesting funds to defray part of the cost of travel awards, which will be granted to students and postdoctoral level investigators presenting their research finding at the 2006 EMS Annual Meeting.