The 5th Aquatic Animal Models for Human Disease Conference

描述（由申请人提供）：水生动物已在生物医学研究中使用多年。通常，这些水生模型具有新颖的方面，为研究人员提供了啮齿动物或其他动物模型无法实现的优势。此次会议是2000年发起的系列会议中的第五次，将汇集对多种人类疾病进行研究并采用水生动物模型的顶级研究人员。项目委员会设计了一个会议，包括研讨会和平台演示沿着“动手”研讨会，向与会者传授最新技术。越来越多的会议主要集中在一种动物（通常是斑马鱼）或一种疾病上。本次会议自成立以来，一直是独一无二的，提供了广泛的模型和应用程序没有找到其他任何地方。这主要是NCRR支持过去这一系列会议的原因。会议将于2010年9月20日至23日在俄勒冈州州立大学校园举行。该计划的灵感来自美国国家科学院委托编写的“21世纪世纪毒理学测试”报告。会议将探讨水生模型如何适应这种新的范式。该计划将包括一些由妇女和新调查人员以及代表性不足的团体邀请的演讲。学生和博士后出席将通过旅行和演讲奖励和减少注册费用来鼓励。在会议上提出的论文将发表在比较生物化学和生理学的特刊或作为一本书由俄勒冈州州立大学出版社。这次会议所实现的网络和合作研究计划将导致NCRR，NIA的高质量应用，并丰富这些和其他NIH研究所的赠款组合。 公共卫生相关性（由申请人提供）：水生动物通常是进行生物医学研究的最佳模型。本次会议（系列中的第五次）将汇集来自世界各地的科学家，探讨水生动物在人类疾病研究中的最新应用。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Aquatic animals have been employed for many years in biomedical research. Often, these aquatic models have novel aspects that provide the researcher with advantages not achievable with rodents or other animal models. This conference is the fifth in a series that was initiated in 2000 and will bring together top investigators performing research on a number of human diseases and employing aquatic animal models. The program committee has designed a meeting consisting of symposium and platform presentations along with "hands-on" workshops to teach the latest technologies to participants. Increasingly, there are conferences and meetings offered that mostly focus on one animal (usually zebrafish) or one disease. This conference, since its inception, has been unique in providing a breadth of models and applications not found anywhere else. This is primarily the reason that NCRR has supported past conferences in this series. The meeting is to be held September 20-23, 2010 on the campus of Oregon State University. The inspiration for the program came from the National Academy of Sciences commissioned report on "Toxicology Testing in the 21st Century". The meeting will explore how aquatic models can fit this new paradigm. The program will include a number of invited talks by women and new investigators, as well as from under-represented groups. Student and post- doc attendance will be encouraged through travel and presentation awards and reduced registration costs. Papers presented at the meeting will be published in a special issue of Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology or as a book by the Oregon State University Press. The networking and plans for collaborative research made possible by this conference will result in high-quality applications to NCRR, NIA and enrich the portfolio of grants in these and other NIH institutes. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE (provided by the applicant): Aquatic animals often make for the best models in the conduct of biomedical research. This conference (the 5th in a series) will bring together scientists from around the world to explore the latest applications of aquatic animals in the study of human diseases.