David W. Smith Workshop on Malformations and Morphogenesis

描述（由申请人提供）： 在过去的29年里，大卫W。史密斯畸形和形态发生研讨会汇集了畸形学家，胚胎学家，解剖学家，遗传学家和其他致力于更好地了解人类畸形如何发生和形态发生的潜在机制的人。 研讨会每年举行一次，是为了庆祝大卫博士的职业生涯。他是人类临床畸形学之父，并首次发起了这些会议。 研讨会举行了大约五天，通常在夏季的学术校园，并有120至140人谁是选择后提交的摘要，并由科学计划委员会审查出席。 讲习班的目的是提供互动交流，因此仅限于当年的发言者。 大约每五年举行一次国际会议，但大多数会议在美国举行。 每年由组织者选择三到五个中心主题;考虑到主题最后一次成为焦点的时间，基于新科学发展的及时性和新领域。 这些会议包括一个讲习班的形式，其中简短介绍假设驱动的调查结果，然后是一个激烈的讨论期。 会议有广泛和刺激的讨论的悠久历史，并提供了一个特别重要的重点发展和招募研究员以及初级教师到畸形和形态发生领域。 公共卫生相关性：本申请是为大卫W提供持续支持的请求。史密斯研讨会的形式，旅行津贴的研究员，初级教师，和一些选定的全体发言人。 这个研讨会有一个历史，是临床医生和基础科学家交流人类畸形发病机制信息的主要论坛。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): For the past 29 years the David W. Smith Workshop on Malformations and Morphogenesis has brought together a mix of dysmorphologists, embryologists, anatomists, geneticists, and others who work on developing a better understanding of how human malformations occur and the underlying mechanisms of morphogenesis. The workshops are held annually and were initiated in celebration of the career of Dr. David W. Smith, who was the father of human clinical dysmorphology and first initiated these meetings. Workshops are held over approximately five days, typically on an academic campus in the summer, and have an attendance of 120 to 140 individuals who are selected following submissions of abstracts and reviewed by the scientific program committee. The workshop is intended to provide an interactive exchange and thus is limited only to those presenting that year. Approximately every five years the meetings have been held internationally, but most meetings took place in the United States. Each year three to five central topics are selected by the organizers; which takes into account when the topic had last been a focus, timeliness based on new scientific developments, and new fields. The meetings consist of a workshop format in which short presentations of hypothesis-driven findings are then followed by an intense discussion period. The meetings have a long history of wide-ranging and stimulating discussion, and have provided an especially important focus for the development and recruitment of fellows as well as junior faculty into the field of malformation and morphogenesis. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: This application is a request to provide continuing support for the David W. Smith Workshop in the form of travel stipends for fellows, junior faculty, and a select number of plenary speakers. This Workshop has a history for being the primary forum where clinicians and basic scientists exchange information on the pathogenesis of human malformations.