Request for support for the Second International Symposium: Facing the Challenges

描述(由申请者提供)：我们正在寻求支持，以便于2012年3月在加州大学河滨分校举办第二届国际研讨会，题为“面对21世纪媒介传播疾病的挑战”。随着全基因组序列分析、生物信息学、转基因和内共生体在新型昆虫防治中的应用进展，以及对免疫(包括小RNA的作用)和感官感知机制的阐明，媒介生物学领域正在迅速发展。事实上，正在开发的一些办法极有可能在今后几年内转化为实地应用。这次研讨会将这些领域的顶尖科学家与初级教师和研究生聚集在一起，以便可以讨论媒介生物学的最新发展，目的之一是增加新兴科学家成为该领域内成功和成熟科学家的可能性。这反过来将确保在未来几年继续研究通过这些节肢动物媒介传播病原体的长期问题，结果是采用新的、新的媒介控制方法。专题讨论会的一个独特之处在于，它将研究人类和植物疾病节肢动物病媒的病媒生物学家聚集在一起(后者的资金来自一个单独的NSF提案)，从而使与会者能够在病媒生物学的问题和方法中找到共同点。可用于昆虫和节肢动物目的全基因组项目和技术(如siRNA和转基因)的数量和使用不断增加，现在使媒介生物学的两个分支的科学家能够在一个专门的会议上会面。 公共卫生意义：我们希望于2012年3月在加州大学河滨分校举办第二届国际研讨会，主题为“面对21世纪媒介传播疾病的挑战”。这次研讨会将汇集病媒生物学家，他们采取不同的方法，从基因组学研究到研究杀虫剂抗性的进化，以研究节肢动物病媒及其传播的病原体。研讨会努力让资深教员与初级教员和学生接触，以确保能够找到解决这些媒介所造成的全球卫生问题的新的和可持续的解决方案。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): We are seeking support to hold the second international symposium entitled "Facing the Challenges of Vector-Borne Diseases in the 21st Century" at the University of California, Riverside in March, 2012. The field of vector biology is rapidly developing through advances made in whole genome sequence analysis, bioinformatics, progression towards the use of transgenesis and endosymbionts in novel insect control, and the elucidation of the mechanisms underlying immunity (including the role of small RNAs) and sensory perception. Indeed it is highly likely that some of the approaches being developed will be translated into field applications within the next few years. This symposium brings together leading scientists in these areas with junior faculty and graduate students so that the latest developments in vector biology can be discussed with one of the aims being to increase the likelihood that that emerging scientists will become successful and established scientists within it. This in turn will ensure that the chronic problem of pathogen spreading by these arthropod vectors will continue to be researched in the years ahead, with the outcome being new and novel approaches to vector control. A unique feature of the symposium is that it combines, at a single venue, vector biologists who work on arthropod vectors of human and plant diseases (funding for the latter coming from a separate NSF proposal) thereby allowing participants to find commonalities in problems and approaches in vector biology. The increasing number and use of whole genome projects and technologies such as siRNA and transgenesis that can be used across orders of insects and arthropods now enables scientists from both arms of vector biology to meet at a single dedicated conference. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: We wish to hold the Second International Symposium on "Facing the Challenges of Vector-Borne Diseases in the 21st Century" at the University of California, Riverside in March 2012. This symposium will bring together vector biologists who take diverse approaches ranging from genomics studies to the examination of the evolution of insecticide resistance to study arthropod vectors and the pathogens they transmit. The symposium strives to engage senior faculty with junior faculty and students in order to ensure that new and sustainable solutions to the global health problems caused by these vectors can be found.