American Society fo Matrix Biology 2008

描述（由申请人提供）：我们要求部分支持将于2008年12月7日至10日在加州圣地亚哥的曼彻斯特凯悦酒店举行的第四届美国基质生物学学会（ASMB）全国会议。第四届ASMB会议在上届会议的基础上取得了成功，上届会议吸引了来自学术界和工业界不同领域的400多名与会者，就基质生物学的广泛主题进行了为期4天的激烈讨论和思想交流。我们打算在这一成功的基础上进一步扩大。为此，我们召集了一个由来自不同领域的杰出科学家组成的全体会议，这些科学家直接或间接地影响细胞外基质（ECM）生物学。会议将以美国国家科学院院士Carlo Croce博士的主题演讲开场，他将讨论微rna。接下来的3天将包括5个全体会议和3个并行会议的5个区块，重点关注ECM和干细胞生态位，发育生物学，蛋白质水解，炎症，遗传疾病，机械影响，发育等主题。会议将包括来自不同领域的演讲者，以促进思想的交流。ASMB是由基质生物学发展而来的各种专业学科的独特集会。与大型学会会议不同，ASMB会议有一个主导主题，与专题讨论会不同，它努力涵盖该主题的所有排列，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。本次会议将特别强调最先进的技术，这些技术可以回答与ECM生物学和病理学相关的问题，这些问题无法用现有方法解决。

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.