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

请求支持第二届国际研讨会：面对挑战

• 批准号: 8205403
• 负责人: PETER William ATKINSON
• 金额: $ 0.5万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA RIVERSIDE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-04-01 至 2013-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8205403
• 关键词: Area; Arthropod Vectors; Arthropods; Benign; Bioinformatics; Biology; California; Chronic; Development; Ensure; Evolution; Faculty; Funding; Gene Transfer Techniques; Genome; Genomics; Human; Immunity; Insect Control; Insecta; Insecticide Resistance; International; Outcome; Participant; Perception; Plant Diseases; Plants; Research; Research Personnel; Role; Scientist; Sensory; Sequence Analysis; Small Interfering RNA; Small RNA; Solutions; Students; Technology; Translating; Universities; Vector-transmitted infectious disease; Work; arm; career; genome sequencing; global health; graduate student; human disease; meetings; novel; novel strategies; pathogen; posters; resistance mechanism; symposium; transmission process; vector; vector control

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.

描述（由申请人提供）：我们正在寻求支持，以于2012年3月在加州大学滨江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”。通过全基因组序列分析、生物信息学、转基因和内共生体在新型昆虫控制中的应用以及免疫机制（包括小RNA的作用）和感官知觉的阐明，载体生物学领域正在迅速发展。事实上，目前正在制定的一些办法很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成功科学家的可能性，从而确保这些节肢动物媒介传播病原体的长期问题将在未来几年继续得到研究未来，其结果是新的和新颖的方法来控制病媒。专题讨论会的一个独特之处是，它在一个单一的地点将研究人类和植物疾病的节肢动物媒介的媒介生物学家结合起来（后者的资金来自国家科学基金会的一项单独提案），从而使与会者能够找到媒介生物学问题和方法的共同点。全基因组项目和技术（如siRNA和转基因）的数量和使用越来越多，这些技术可以用于昆虫和节肢动物，现在使来自两个载体生物学分支的科学家能够在一个专门的会议上会面。 公共卫生相关性：我们希望于2012年3月在加州大学滨江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，从基因组学研究到杀虫剂抗性的演变研究节肢动物病媒及其传播的病原体。研讨会致力于让高级教师与初级教师和学生，以确保新的和可持续的解决方案，这些载体造成的全球健康问题可以找到。