Biennial Meeting of the American Society for Matrix Biology

描述(由申请者提供)：我们请求部分支持将于2010年10月24-27日在南卡罗来纳州查尔斯顿的Francis Marion酒店举行的美国基质生物学学会(ASMB)第五届全国会议。第五届ASMB会议是在上一次会议成功的基础上举行的，上届会议吸引了来自不同领域、学术界和工业界的400多名与会者，他们花了4天的时间就基质生物学这一广泛的主题进行了激烈的讨论和意见交流。我们打算扩大这一成功的范围。为此，我们组织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Elaine Fuchs博士的主旨演讲开始，他将就干细胞、细胞外基质和皮肤癌发表演讲。接下来的三天将包括四次全体会议和六次三次并行会议，重点讨论ECM-细胞相互作用、ECM疾病机制、发育和形态发生、工程ECM、ECM蛋白质和肌肉骨骼系统、遗传疾病等主题。会议将包括来自不同领域的演讲者，以促进思想的交流。ASMB是从基质生物学发展而来的各种专业学科的独特会议。与大型社会会议不同，ASMB会议有一个主导主题，与研讨会不同，它努力涵盖该主题的所有排列，包括新出现的问题、未准备好进入黄金时间的主题和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，这些技术可以回答与ECM生物学和病理学相关的问题，而这些问题是现有方法无法解决的。总而言之，ASMB会议为感兴趣的科学家提供了一个在一个集中的论坛上会面的独家机会。这不仅适用于现有的研究人员，也适用于年轻的科学家和学生，包括少数族裔，我们非常重视他们的参与。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): We request partial support for the 5th National Meeting of the American Society for Matrix Biology (ASMB), to be held at the Francis Marion Hotel, Charleston, SC on October 24-27, 2010. The 5th 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 consisting 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. Elaine Fuchs, a member of the National Academy of Sciences, who will talk on stem cells, ECM, and cancer in skin. The following 3 days will consist of four Plenary Sessions and six blocks of three Concurrent Sessions, focused on topics such as ECM-Cell Interactions, ECM Disease Mechanisms, Development and Morphogenesis, Engineered ECMs, ECM Proteins and the Musculoskeletal System, Genetic Diseases, 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. In summary, 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.