Environmental Bioinorganic Chemistry 2008 Gordon Research Conference

描述（由申请人提供） 该提案要求对将于2008年6月15日至20日在新罕布什尔州沃特维尔谷举行的第四届环境生物无机化学戈登研究会议（EBIC 2008）提供部分支持。 这次会议的广泛和长期目标是了解历史上称为“无机”的元素在生物过程中的作用，从分子到全球。 技术挑战将使研究人员忽略生命系统不仅仅由碳、氢、氮、磷和氧组成，但他们现在知道生物圈依赖于或可能易受周期表中更大部分的影响。 此外，虽然人类使用某些无机元素是古老的，但现代工业和农业已导致人类及其环境前所未有地暴露于有毒元素和放射性核素，对公共健康造成代价高昂的后果。 研究人员的目标是在一个可爱的自然环境中召开5天会议，有36位演讲者/讨论负责人，他们在不同的生物组织尺度（分子到生态系统）和不同的视角和工具上研究生物无机化学。 EBIC 2008将以两个关于我们主题的细胞和全球维度的主题演讲开始。 将有七个会议涵盖铁和硫，微量金属，矿物质营养和体内平衡，进化，毒理学和生物修复，生物能源和纳米技术，以及生物无机分析的最新进展无机方面。 两次餐前海报会议（每次2天）将为所有注册者提供相互讨论科学的机会。 会议将以纪念生物无机化学的开创性贡献者而结束。 本次会议的意义在于，虽然其他会议侧重于分子和细胞水平的金属生物学，或在其环境焦点中包括生物无机主题，但EBIC一直致力于将这些不同的观点结合在一起，以在空间和时间尺度上建立生物无机过程之间的联系，并促进在周期表中发现这些过程中的共同和不同模式。 EBIC 2008会议的健康相关性是人类和动物的健康以及慢性疾病和对传染病的防御都取决于足够的矿物质营养，这是通过植物和微生物直接从土壤和水中获取无机元素而实现的。 此外，现代农业、制造业、临床和军事实践大大增加了我们接触有毒元素的机会，因此需要了解和监测其风险，并制定防范策略。 EBIC 2008会议的健康相关性是人类和动物的健康以及慢性疾病和对传染病的防御都取决于足够的矿物质营养，这是通过植物和微生物直接从土壤和水中获取无机元素而实现的。 此外，现代农业、制造业、临床和军事实践大大增加了我们接触有毒元素的机会，因此需要了解和监测其风险，并制定防范策略。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant) This proposal requests partial support for the 4th Gordon Research Conference on Environmental Bioinorganic Chemistry (EBIC 2008) to be held in Waterville Valley, NH, 15-20 June 2008. The broad and long term goal for this conference is to understand the roles in biotic processes of elements historically called "inorganic" at scales from the molecular to the global. Technical challenges will allow the investigators to overlook that living systems consist of more than carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, phosphorus, and oxygen, but they now know that the biosphere depends on, or can be vulnerable to, a much larger portion of the Periodic Table. Moreover, while human use of some inorganic elements is ancient, modern industry and agriculture have led to unprecedented exposures of humans and their environment to toxic elements and radionuclides with costly consequences for public health. The investigators aim specifically to convene for 5 days in a lovely natural setting with 36 speakers/ discussion leaders who study bioinorganic chemistry at different scales of biological organization (molecular to ecosystem) and with diverse perspectives and tools. EBIC 2008 will open with two keynote addresses on the cellular and global dimensions of our subject. There will be seven sessions covering iron and sulfur, trace metals, mineral nutrition and homeostasis, inorganic aspects of evolution, toxicology and bioremediation, bioenergy and nanotechnology, and recent advances in bioinorganic analysis. Two pre-dinner poster sessions (2-days each) will afford all registrants the opportunity to discuss their science with each other. The conference will close with a remembrance of a seminal contributor to bioinorganic chemistry. The significance of this conference is that while other meetings focus on metallobiology at the molecular and cellular levels or include bioinorganic topics in their environmental focus, EBIC has been unique in deliberately bringing these distinct perspectives together to make connections among bioinorganic processes across spatial and temporal scales and to foster discovery of common and disparate patterns in such processes across the Periodic Table. The health relatedness of the EBIC 2008 conference is that human and animal health and both chronic disorders and defense against infectious diseases depend on adequate mineral nutrition, made possible by plant and microbial acquisition of inorganic elements directly from soil and water. In addition, modern farming, manufacturing, clinical, and military practices have substantially increased our exposure to toxic elements generating a need to understand and monitor their risks and devise strategies to protect against them. The health relatedness of the EBIC 2008 conference is that human and animal health and both chronic disorders and defense against infectious diseases depend on adequate mineral nutrition, made possible by plant and microbial acquisition of inorganic elements directly from soil and water. In addition, modern farming, manufacturing, clinical, and military practices have substantially increased our exposure to toxic elements generating a need to understand and monitor their risks and devise strategies to protect against them.