American Society fo Matrix Biology 2008

描述（由申请人提供）：我们请求部分支持美国矩阵生物学学会（ASMB）第四届全国会议，将于2008年12月7日至10日在加利福尼亚州圣地亚哥的曼彻斯特凯悦酒店举行。第四届ASMB会议在上次会议成功的基础上再接再厉，吸引了来自学术界和工业界不同领域的400多名与会者，就基质生物学这一广泛主题进行了为期4天的激烈讨论和思想交流。我们打算扩大这一成功。为此，我们已经组装了一个全体会议计划，由来自不同领域的杰出科学家组成，直接或间接地影响细胞外基质（ECM）生物学。会议将以国家科学院成员Carlo Croce博士的主题演讲开始，他将谈论micro-RNA。接下来的3天将包括5个全体会议和5个3个并行会议，重点讨论ECM和干细胞壁龛，发育生物学，蛋白质水解，炎症，遗传疾病，机械影响，发展等主题。会议将包括来自不同领域的发言者，以促进思想的交流。ASMB是一个独特的召集各种各样的，专门的学科，已经发展出矩阵生物学。与大型社会会议不同，ASMB会议有一个主导主题，与专题讨论会不同，它努力涵盖这个主题的所有排列，包括新出现的问题，尚未准备好的黄金时间主题，以及令人兴奋的新研究领域。特别是这次会议将强调最先进的技术，可以回答有关ECM生物学和病理学的问题，不能用现有的方法来解决。 公共卫生相关性：ASMB会议为感兴趣的科学家提供了一个集中论坛的独家机会。这不仅适用于资深调查人员，也适用于青年科学家和学生，包括少数群体，我们非常重视他们的参与。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): We request partial support for the 4th National Meeting of the American Society for Matrix Biology (ASMB), to be held at the Manchester Hyatt, San Diego, CA on December 7-10, 2008. The 4th ASMB meeting builds on the success of the previous meeting, which drew over 400 participants from diverse fields, in academia and industry, spent 4 days of intense discussion and exchange of ideas on the broad topic of matrix biology. We intend to expand on that success. To this end we have assembled a plenary program comprised of distinguished scientists from diverse areas that impinge directly or indirectly on extracellular matrix (ECM) biology. The meeting will open with a Keynote Address by Dr. Carlo Croce, a member of the National Academy of Sciences, who will talk on micro-RNA. The following 3 days will consist of 5 Plenary Sessions and 5 blocks of 3 Concurrent Sessions, focused on topics such as ECM and Stem Cell Niches, Developmental Biology, Proteolysis, Inflammation, Genetic Diseases, Mechanical Influces, Development, and much more. Sessions will include speakers from diverse fields to promote cross-fertilization of ideas. The ASMB is a unique convocation of the varied, specialized disciplines that have developed out of matrix biology. Unlike large society meetings, the ASMB meeting has a dominant theme, and unlike symposia it strives to encompass all permutations on this theme, including emerging issues, not- ready-for-prime-time topics, and exciting new areas of research. In particular this meeting will emphasize state of the art technologies that can answer questions pertinent to ECM biology and pathology that could not be tackled with existing methodologies. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The ASMB meeting provides an exclusive opportunity for interested scientists to meet in a concentrated forum. This is true not only for established investigators but also for young scientists and students, including minorities, on whose participation we place great emphasis.