ASCB Summer Meeting- Dynamic Interplay Between Cytoskeletal and Membrane Systems

描述(由申请者提供)：将于2007年6月27-30日在法国第戎举行的“细胞骨架和膜系统之间的动态相互作用”会议是美国细胞生物学学会-欧洲细胞骨架论坛(ASCB-ECF)的一次性联合会议。发生在膜-细胞骨架界面特殊微环境中的分子事件，包括细胞形态发生和细胞极性发育、细胞内运输、细胞黏附、细胞信号、细胞运动、肿瘤细胞侵袭和宿主-病原体相互作用等多种生物学过程。要了解这些不同的生物过程是如何由膜-细胞骨架相互作用调节的，需要研究细胞膜的研究人员和研究细胞骨架蛋白的研究人员的综合专业知识，以及使用各种实验方法。在过去，关于膜-细胞骨架相互作用的密集和集中讨论的机会一直很少或完全缺乏。这次会议的目标是在细胞骨架研究人员和膜研究人员这两个不同的群体之间促进活跃的思想交流和概念进展的报告，并为未来的研究确定最紧迫的挑战和最有希望的机会。将介绍膜细胞骨架相互作用前沿研究的最新成果，并为所有与会者之间的正式和非正式交流提供充足的机会。这次会议的一个特别重要的特点是，它将汇集来自美国、欧洲和亚洲的顶尖研究人员，从而促进国际科学话语。这次会议将汇集来自两个传统上不重叠的研究领域的科学家，并采用各种最先进的方法，包括实时成像、电子显微镜、生物化学、生物物理学和遗传学。这次会议的独特重点将促进互动和交流，这些互动和交流在重点较少的会议中是缺乏的，或者在较大的会议上会被冲淡。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The conference on "Dynamic Interplay Between Cytoskeletal and Membrane Systems," to be held June 27-30, 2007 in Dijon, France, is a one-time joint American Society for Cell Biology-European Cytoskeleton Forum (ASCB-ECF) conference. The molecular events occurring in the special microenvironments at membrane-cytoskeleton interfaces underlie diverse biological processes; including cell morphogenesis and cell polarity development, intracellular trafficking, cell adhesion, cell signaling, cell motility, tumor cell invasion, and host-pathogen interactions. Understanding how these diverse biological processes are mediated by membrane-cytoskeleton interactions will require the combined expertise of investigators studying cellular membranes and investigators studying cytoskeletal proteins, as well as the use of a variety of experimental approaches. In the past, opportunities for intense and focused discussions of membrane-cytoskeleton interactions have been rare or entirely lacking. The goals of this conference are to promote among two distinct communities, cytoskeletal researchers and membrane researchers, the lively exchange of ideas and reporting of conceptual advances, and to identify the most pressing challenges and the most promising opportunities for future research. The latest results from cutting-edge research on membrane cytoskeleton interactions will be presented, and ample opportunity for formal and informal communication among all conference attendees will be provided. An especially important feature of this conference is that it will bring together leading researchers from the United States, Europe and Asia thus promoting international scientific discourse. This meeting will bring together scientists from two traditionally non-overlapping research areas, and employing diverse state-of-the-art approaches including real-time imaging, electron microscopy, biochemistry, biophysics and genetics. The unique focus of this conference will facilitate interactions and exchanges that would be lacking in less focused conferences, or diluted at larger conferences.