Gordon Research Conference on Prolactin

描述（由申请人提供）： 我们正在申请资助三（3）催乳素戈登研究会议 将于2002年、2004年和2006年冬季在加州文图拉举行。这些 自1982年以来，每两年举行一次成功的研究会议， 致力于催乳素表达方面的前沿讨论， 分泌、作用和病理生理学。近年来，内容也 包括生长激素的作用，特别是根据共同的系统发育， 这两种激素的起源和信号作用。项目委员会 由公认的专家组成， 主席和代行主席职务的副主席， 确保连续性，避免内容重复。会议持续 从周日晚上到周四晚上，吸引了大约130名科学家， 实习生、研究生和内分泌学家。预算包括开支 支持演讲者登记和差旅，以及学员差旅奖励。 支持包括戈登会议的支持，慈善事业和这个国家卫生研究院的要求。 今年会议的重点包括垂体发育，新的 技术，行为，垂体调节，新型类似物，PRL和GH 生理学和信号传导，以及PRL和GH在癌症中的作用。 这一请求将确保这一备受推崇的会议继续下去， 促进了催乳素领域的大量新知识， 在过去的18年里产生的。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): We are requesting funding for three (3) Prolactin Gordon Research Conferences to be held in Ventura, California in the Winters of 2002, 2004 and 2006. These successful research meetings have been held biannually since 1982 and are dedicated to cutting-edge discussion on aspects of prolactin expression, secretion, action and pathophysiology. In recent years, the content has also included growth hormone action, especially in light of the common phylogenetic origin and signalling action of the two hormones. A program committee comprising recognized experts, is elected for each subsequent meeting by participants, as are a Chair and a Vice-Chair who assumes the Chair, thus ensuring continuity, and avoiding duplication of content. The meeting lasts from Sunday evening through Thursday evening and attracts about 130 scientists, trainees, graduate students and endocrinologists. The budget includes expenses to support speaker registration and travel, as well as trainee travel awards. Support includes Gordon Conference support, philanthropy and this NIH request. The foci of this year's meeting include pituitary development, new technologies, behaviour, pituitary regulation, novel analogs, PRL and GH physiology and signalling, and the role of PRL and GH in cancers. This request will ensure continuation of this highly regarded meeting which has contributed to the large body of new knowledge in the prolactin field that has been generated over the past 18 years.