Frontiers in Single-Cell Analysis

描述(申请人提供)：本次会议将聚焦于“单细胞分析的前沿”，其使命是汇聚这一领域的世界领导人，讨论未来的 这一新兴领域。会议为期21天半，从2013年9月5日星期四开始，到9月7日星期六中午结束。它将以生物医学分析和化学成像中的尖端单细胞技术以及单细胞基因组学和单细胞技术的翻译方面的会议为特色，单细胞技术将包括癌症生物学和神经科学中的单细胞分析。我们选择在斯坦福大学举办这次会议，地点在校园的中心位置，离基础科学系、工程学院和医学院很近。该网站位于中心位置，方便研究生和博士后研究员以及校园内的资深科学家。该网站也很容易从旧金山湾区的机构访问，包括加州大学旧金山分校、伯克利分校和加州大学戴维斯分校。演讲者名单除美国外，还包括来自欧洲和日本的杰出科学家，因此我们期待来自全国各地的科学家和初级科学家参加。这次会议的一个关键目标是让学生、实习生、早期调查人员和教师与这一领域的领导人接触。会议将为他们提供一个互动和交流想法的论坛。因此，我们将开展宣传活动，特别鼓励学生、实习生、代表性不足的团体以及早期调查人员和教职员工参加这次会议。我们预计至少有一半的与会者将是研究生和博士后，如果可能的话， 我们希望他们的注册成本尽可能接近于零-这是我们向NIBIB申请资金的主要目的。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This conference will focus on "Frontiers in Single-Cell Analysis", and its mission is to bring together world leaders in this area to discuss the future of this emerging field. The meeting will be 21/2 days, starting on Thursday, Sept 5, 2013, and ending at noon on Sat, Sept 7th. It will feature sessions on cutting-edge single-cell technologies in biomedical analysis and chemical imaging, as well as in single-cell genomics and on the translational aspects of single-cell techniques, which will include single-cell analysis in cancer biology and in neuroscience. We have chosen to have this conference at Stanford University in a central location on campus in close proximity to the basic science departments, the School of Engineering and the Medical School. This site is centrally located and is convenient to graduate students and postdoctoral fellows, as well as senior scientists on campus. The site is also readily accessible from institutions in the Bay Area, including UCSF, Berkeley, and UC Davis. The list of speakers includes distinguished scientists from Europe and Japan in addition to the US, so we expect scientists and junior scientists from all over the country to attend. A key goal of this meeting is to engage students, trainees, and early-stage investigators and faculties with leaders of this area. The meeting will offer a forum for them to interact and exchange ideas. As a result, we will perform outreach to specifically encourage students, trainees, under-represented groups, and early-stage investigators and faculties to attend this meeting. We expect that at least half of the attendees will be graduate students and postdocs and, if possible, we would like to make their costs of registration as close to zero as possible - this is the primar purpose of the funds we are requesting from NIBIB.