Biennial Meeting of the American Society for Matrix Biology

描述（由申请人提供）：我们要求部分支持第五届美国基质生物学学会（ASMB）全国会议，会议将于2010年10月24日至27日在南卡罗来纳州查尔斯顿的弗朗西斯马里昂酒店举行。第五届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，我们召集了一个全体会议，由来自不同领域的杰出科学家组成，他们直接或间接地影响细胞外基质（ECM）生物学。会议将由美国国家科学院成员Elaine Fuchs博士发表主题演讲，她将讨论干细胞、ECM和皮肤癌症。接下来的三天将包括四个全体会议和三个并行会议的六个部分，重点关注的主题包括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，遗传疾病等等。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。总之，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。这不仅适用于成熟的研究人员，也适用于年轻的科学家和学生，包括少数民族，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.