SMOOTH, SKELETAL AND CARDIAC MUSCLE ENERGETICS

我们正在组织第三届肌肉国际会议 来自美国，日本， 欧洲、加拿大、澳大利亚和新西兰。 会议将 在日本汤布院举行，由大分大学主办。 基于 根据对我们公告的回应（190），100 - 120名参与者 预计50%是美国人。 这可以与 第66（1977）和95（1984）号决议。 我们预计与此相关的额外费用 美国人的位置将被额外的资源所抵消， 资金来源于日本。 而且这 位置允许与年轻人进行更大程度的互动 日本调查人员，在佛蒙特州的位置是不可能的， 未来科学交流的基础。 人发会议各项目标 （一）发现和研究需要解决的重要问题 肌肉能量学的解决方案，B）讨论跨学科和 解决这些问题的比较策略，以及C） 将新发现与肌肉收缩的其他方面联系起来， 尤其是那些肌肉 能量学提供了独特的解决方案。 我们的会议计划，基于 前几次会议强调口头介绍和综合 海报会议，使成熟的科学家和年轻的 节目中的调查员。 我们计划9个会议，8个会议将 包括口头报告：能量学和交叉桥 骨骼肌循环（2）;平滑肌能量学， 力学和代谢（2）;核磁共振研究的收缩 模型收缩系统的能量学和动力学; 肌肉能量学的共价和遗传调节;以及 心肌能量学 除了日常讨论， 最后一次会议将专门讨论 与口头会议上提出的关键问题有关的海报 重点是达成共识， 新的方向是什么，最有成效。 的 会议已通过邮件向 美国生物物理学会收缩小组 生理学会的Myo-Bio小组和过去的与会者 会议. 在各种社会通讯中做广告， 科学，自然和J.肌肉研究也计划。 关键 美国和外国参与者已被选中， 他对会议表示了兴趣。 我们相信这至关重要 出版会议记录的重要性 并已开始与一家出版商进行谈判， 出版物 要求提供部分支助，以支付67%的 25名主要美国参与者的差旅费， 每日津贴。 预计成本的60%将从 日本和其他来源。 据我们所知，这次会议是 这是过去四年中唯一一次， 科学家们将专注于收缩性的潜在机制， 及其在平滑肌、骨骼肌和心肌中的调节， 肌肉能量学的独特观点。

We are organizing the 3rd International Conference on Muscle Energetics involving scientists from the United States, Japan, Europe, Canada, Australia & New Zealand. The conference will be held in Yufuin, Japan, hosted by the University of Oita. Based on responses (190) to our announcement, 100-120 participants are anticipated with 50% being American. This can be compared to 66 (1977) and 95 (1984) at the previous meetings held in Vermont. We anticipate that the additional expense associated with this location for Americans will be offset by the additional sources of funds available through Japanese sources. Furthermore, this location permits a greater level of interaction with younger Japanese investigators, not possible at the Vermont location, and the basis for future scientific exchange. The conference goals are: A) identify and examine important problems requiring solutions in muscle energetics, B) discuss interdisciplinary and comparative strategies for dealing with these problems, and C) relate new findings to other aspects of muscle contraction, particularly those areas in which the approach of muscle energetics offer unique solutions. Our conference plan, based on previous meetings stresses both oral presentations and integral poster sessions, enabling a mix of established scientists and young investigators in the program. We plan 9 sessions, 8 sessions will consist of oral presentations on: energetics and crossbridge cycling in skeletal muscle (2); smooth muscle energetics, mechanics and metabolism (2); NMR studies of contractile systems; energetics and kinetics of model contractile systems; covalent and genetic modulation of muscle energetics; and energetics of cardiac muscle. In addition to daily discussion of posters, the final session will be devoted to issues raised in the posters in relation to the critical issues raised at the oral sessions with an emphasis on achieving a consensus as to what has been accomplished and what new directions are most fruitful. The conference has been advertised through mailings to the Biophysical Society's Contractility Subgroup, the American Physiological Society's Myo-Bio Group, and attendees of past meetings. Advertisements in the various society newsletters, Science, Nature and J. Muscle Research are also planned. Key U.S. and Foreign participants have been selected and all have expressed an interest in the meeting. We believe it is of vital importance that the Proceedings of the Conference are published and have initiated negotiations with a publisher, noted for rapid publication. Partial support is requested to defray 67% of the travel expenses for 25 key American participants and minimum per diem. 60% of the anticipated costs are to be raised from Japanese and other sources. This conference to our knowledge is the only one within the past four years in which a broad group of scientists will focus on the mechanisms underlying contractility and its regulation in smooth, skeletal, and cardiac muscle from the unique viewpoint of muscle energetics.