Student and Postdoctoral Level Investigator Travel Awards at 2005 EMS Meeting

描述（由申请人提供）：环境诱变剂协会的年会为学生和博士后水平的研究人员提供了一个论坛，介绍他们的研究，并与他们所在领域的一些领先的科学家进行互动。这种设置鼓励思想和实验发现的开放交流。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的温哥华举行。会议计划包括关于当前感兴趣的主题的研讨会演讲，海报和平台会议，用于演示者提交的演示文稿和其他特别活动，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。 近年来，环境诱变剂协会（EMS）科学家的研究为了解环境中的遗传毒性化学品和辐射如何对人类健康造成威胁提供了重要的信息基础。这些观察结果已经与遗传和获得性遗传改变的研究相结合，这些遗传改变使个体易患癌症，过早衰老和其他疾病。整个人类基因组的测序，以及许多其他生物体的测序，沿着强大的新技术的发展，现在有望在未来十年产生更令人印象深刻的进步。总的来说，这项工作使人们注意到有可能查明和减少威胁我们和地球健康的大多数主要环境危害。这些危害，包括遗传毒性物质，传染性病原体和化学物质，对重要的细胞过程产生不利影响，仍然是EMS成员研究的中心焦点，这些领域的进展在年会上提出。 EMS认为，学生和博士后水平的研究人员是社会和科学家的社会培育的科学事业的未来。旅行奖励有助于抵消参加EMS年会的财务负担。如果没有这种援助，许多学生和博士后水平的研究人员将无法利用丰富的科学信息交流和这次科学会议产生的新想法。在这项提案中，研究人员要求提供资金，以支付部分旅费奖励，这将授予学生和博士后水平的研究人员在2006年EMS年会上介绍他们的研究发现。

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.