PATHOLOGY OF THE LABORATORY MOUSE

描述（由申请人提供）：科学家目前正处于一场遗传学革命之中，这场革命有望将“突破性”生物医学研究推向新的水平。 这场革命的很大一部分取决于对基因之间的关系及其对复杂生物系统和表型的影响的分析。 研究人员必须越来越熟练地操纵和使用遗传模型，以解决各种重要的生物学问题。 实验室小鼠已成为人类和家畜疾病的首选动物模型，也是研究基本生物学功能的首选模型。 建立这种模型的有效性取决于分子生物学家，遗传学家和病理学家之间的互动，所有这些都有重叠，但不同的技能。对于病理学家来说尤其如此，因为大多数人都是作为医生接受培训的，他们很少或根本不了解物种间的变异性和/或相似性。 同样，兽医病理学家虽然习惯于与许多物种合作，但很少或根本没有人类病理学经验，并且通常很少或根本没有小鼠病理学专业知识。 基因工程小鼠的生产和使用的升级创造了对具有小鼠病理学专业知识的个人的需求。 由于具有这种专业知识的病理学家严重不足，文献中充斥着对突变基因表型效应的不完整和不准确的描述。 为了帮助解决这个问题，研究人员建议举办一个研讨会，“实验室小鼠的病理学”，最初在每年秋季举行，为期五年。 杰克逊实验室将在奇数年（一、三和五）举办研讨会，而康奈尔大学和普渡大学将在偶数年轮流举办研讨会。 加上适度的费用，这些场外选择的目的是使研讨会更容易为学生。 研讨会本身将包括为期八天的病理学和组织病理学强化实验室培训课程，以及讨论特定疾病领域和模型的教学课程。 该研讨会将容纳16名参与者，他们将有机会与来自TJL和其他领先机构的一组杰出的小鼠病理学家和遗传学家进行互动。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Scientists are currently in the midst of a genetics revolution that promises to push "breakthrough" biomedical research to new levels. A large part of this revolution depends upon the analysis of the relationships between genes and their effects on complex biological systems and phenotypes. Investigators must become increasingly skilled in the manipulation and use of genetic models to address a variety of important biological questions. The laboratory mouse has become the premier animal model for human and domestic animal diseases as well as the model of choice for studying basic biological functions. Establishing the validity of such models depends on interaction between molecular biologists, geneticists, and pathologists, all of which have overlapping, but distinct skills. This is especially true for the pathologists since most are trained as physicians who have little to no appreciation of interspecies variability and/or similarity. Likewise, veterinary pathologists, although used to working with many species, have little or no human pathology experience and often little or no mouse pathology expertise. The escalation in the production and use of genetically engineered mice has created a demand for individuals with mouse pathology expertise. Due to this severe deficit in pathologists with such expertise, the literature is being flooded with incomplete and inaccurate descriptions of phenotypic effects of mutated genes. In order to help address this problem, the investigators propose a workshop, "Pathology of the Laboratory Mouse," to be held in the Fall each year initially, for five years. The Jackson Laboratory will host the workshop in the odd-numbered years (one, three, and five) whereas Cornell and Purdue will alternately host the workshop in the even numbered years. Coupled with modest fees, these offsite options are intended to make the workshop more accessible to students. The workshop itself will consist of eight days of intensive bench training sessions in pathology and histopathology, as well as didactic sessions in which particular disease areas and models will be discussed. The Workshop will accommodate 16 participants who will have an opportunity to interact with a group of prominent mouse pathologists and geneticists from both TJL, and other leading institutions.