EMS 40th Annual Meeting - Student and New Investigator Travel and Invited Non-Mem

描述（由申请人提供）：环境诱变剂协会（EMS）是促进DNA修复和诱变基本机制研究的主要科学协会，并将这些知识应用于了解暴露于环境遗传毒素对人类健康的影响。EMS科学家对DNA修复和诱变的研究与遗传和获得性遗传改变的研究相结合，这些遗传改变使个体易患癌症，过早衰老和其他疾病。对细胞、组织和整个生物体对遗传毒性物质的反应的机制和后果的基本理解，对于环境健康危害方面的知情监管决策至关重要。多学科基础研究和应用研究的结合对这一进程至关重要。这种整合仍然是EMS的中心焦点，年会是传播信息和促进互动的关键，这是实现这一目标所必需的。此外，会议为学生和博士后研究人员提供了一个重要的论坛，以展示他们的研究，并在鼓励开放交流思想的环境中与各自领域的领先科学家进行互动。EMS第40届年会将于2009年10月24日至28日在密苏里州的圣路易斯举行。其主题是“环境世纪的基因组学”。科学计划，其中包括EMS内的科学利益的全方位，是由专题讨论会，研讨会，全体讲座，并贡献海报和平台会议。纵观其历史，EMS年会汇集了学术界，工业界和政府科学家对环境因素如何导致遗传毒性感兴趣。为实现这一使命，为会议提供资金支持至关重要。本次会议补助金申请的双重目标是申请旅行奖的资金，以学生和博士后研究员参加2009年EMS年会，以及资金，以部分支持主要非会员发言人的差旅费。EMS认为，它的学生和博士后研究人员是社会和科学家的社会培育的科学事业的未来。旅行奖励有助于抵消可能妨碍受训者参加培训的经济负担。申请书还要求提供资金，以部分支付应邀的非成员发言者的旅费。EMS成员发言人都同意支付自己参加会议的费用。然而，有必要为应邀的非成员发言者提供旅费，他们为世界级会议提供必要的思想交流。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Environmental Mutagen Society (EMS) is the primary scientific society fostering research on the basic mechanisms of DNA repair and mutagenesis and application of this knowledge to understanding human health effects from exposure to environmental genotoxins. Studies of DNA repair and mutagenesis by EMS scientists are integrated with research on inherited and acquired genetic alterations that predispose individuals to cancer, premature aging, and other diseases. Fundamental understanding of the mechanisms and consequences of cellular, tissue, and whole organism responses to genotoxic agents is crucial to informed regulatory decision-making with respect to environmental health hazards. The integration of multi-disciplinary basic and applied research is essential to this process. Such integration remains the central focus of the EMS, and the Annual Meetings are key to the dissemination of information and fostering of interactions that are necessary to achieve it. In addition, the meetings provide an important forum for students and postdoctoral investigators to present their research and to interact with leading scientists in their field in a setting that encourages open exchange of ideas. The 40th Annual Meeting of the EMS will be held in St. Louis, Missouri from October 24 - 28, 2009. Its theme is "Genomics in the Environmental Century". The scientific program, which encompasses the full range of scientific interests within EMS, is comprised of symposia, workshops, plenary lectures, and contributed poster and platform sessions. Throughout its history, the EMS Annual Meetings have brought together academic, industrial and governmental scientists interested in how environmental factors lead to genotoxicity. Awarded funding support for the meeting is critically necessary in order to achieve this mission. The dual objectives of this conference grant application are to request funds for Travel Awards to students and postdoctoral fellows to attend the 2009 EMS Annual Meeting, and funds to partially support travel expenses for key non-member speakers. EMS believes that its students and postdoctoral investigators are the future of both the Society and the scientific endeavors fostered by its community of scientists. Travel Awards assist in offsetting the financial burden that might otherwise prevent trainees from attending. The application also requests funds to partially defray travel costs for invited non-member speakers. EMS member speakers all agree to cover their own expenses for participation in the conference. However, it is necessary to assist with travel expenses for invited non-member speakers, who provide the cross-fertilization of ideas necessary for a world-class meeting.