Support for 2013 Aquatic Animal Models for Human Disease/ Midwest Zebrafish

描述(申请人提供)：水生动物模型在促进我们对人类疾病起源的了解方面发挥了重要作用，并有助于研究和确定与疾病诊断、预防和治疗相关的药物靶标和测试。在许多情况下，人类疾病动物模型的最佳选择是水生动物模型；最广为人知的是斑马鱼，但使用水生动物模型的研究人员群体正在增长，并产生了广泛的创新研究、方法和技术，以改进研究人类疾病复杂性的工具。人类疾病水生动物模型大会不是简单地关注一种水生物种或一种疾病，而是与任何其他会议或场所相比是独一无二的，它为研究人员利用广泛的水生模型集合来攻击大范围人类疾病的复杂性提供了一个论坛。这一系列会议中的第六届将在威斯康星州密尔沃基举行，由威斯康星大学密尔沃基分校主办。该会议旨在将美国和世界各地使用水生动物模型进行人类疾病研究的研究人员聚集在一起。中西部斑马鱼会议是科学家和研究人员的年度聚会，他们专注于在基础生物和生物医学研究中使用斑马鱼。这两个会议将联合举行，以便使用不同模式和采用不同方法的调查人员可以进行对话和交流意见。该计划由该领域公认的领导者设计，旨在提供有关在生物医学研究中使用水生动物的进展和所采用技术的最新信息。将通过旅行奖励等机制，积极招募新的调查员、妇女、残疾调查员和任职人数不足的少数群体参加本次会议。以往会议的会议记录已在一份科学期刊的特刊上发表，并将通过补充的传播机制继续这样做。这些会议的一个结果，特别是这次会议，是为新的研究人员提供所需的想法、背景和指导，以提高提交给多个NIH研究所的拨款申请的质量，如果不是数量的话。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Aquatic animal models have played important roles in advancing our understanding of the origins of human disease and have contributed to the study and identification of drug targets and tests associated with the diagnosis, prevention and treatment of disease. In many cases, the best choice for an animal model of human disease is aquatic; the most-widely known is zebra fish but the community of investigators using aquatic animal models is growing and producing a wide-range of innovative studies, methods and technologies to improve the tools to study the complexity of human disease. The Aquatic Animal Models for Human Disease Conference is the primary conference that does not simply focus on one aquatic species or one disease but rather, is uniquely compared to any other conference or venue, provides a forum for the entire breadth of investigator's approaches using a wide collection of aquatic models to attack the complexity of a large spectrum of human disease. The 6th conference in this series that seeks to bring together researchers from the U.S. and around the world that employ aquatic animal models in their studies of human diseases will be held in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and hosted by the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. The Midwest Zebrafish Conference is an annual gathering of scientists and researchers who focus on the use of zebrafish in their basic biological and biomedical research. These two conferences will be held jointly such that investigators using different models and employing different approaches can engage in dialog and exchange ideas. The program has been designed by recognized leaders in the field to provide state-of-the-art information on advances in the use of aquatic animals in biomedical research and the technologies employed. New investigators, women, investigators with disabilities and under-represented minorities will be actively recruited to participate in this meeting through mechanisms such as travel awards. The proceedings from past meetings have been published in special issues of a scientific journal and this will be continued with complementary mechanisms for dissemination. One outcome of these gatherings and this meeting in particular, is to provide new investigators with the ideas, background and mentoring required for improving the quality if not quantity of grant applications submitted to multiple NIH institutes.