2011 Teratology Society Annual Meeting - Student/Postdoctoral Fellow Travel Award

描述（由申请人提供） 畸形学会成立于1960年，旨在促进与先天性（出生）缺陷有关的信息交流，包括其性质，原因，机制和预防。 2011年，该协会将在加州科罗纳多举行第51届年会。会议提供了一个地方和时间来网络，并沉迷于从哲学到实践的讨论，与该领域的专家，新的研究人员和学生。它也是一个地方和时间来促进和表达我们的科学多样性，作为来自学术，工业和政府部门的临床医生，科学家和科学政策监管机构的社会。 学会理解鼓励和指导学生和博士后研究员的重要性，包括促进教育和培训作为其战略目标的一部分。会议议程包括鼓励学生和博士后研究员参与的活动和会议。将有一个平台会议，突出研究生和博士后研究员的研究。该平台会议由学生和博士后研究员从提交平台演示的摘要池中竞争性选择的演讲组成。那些论文摘要没有入选本次会议的学生和博士后研究员将被纳入整个会议期间的其他平台和海报会议。学生和博士后研究员的海报被标记为这样，以鼓励演讲者和社会成员和与会者之间的互动。 此外，还有两个学生辅导活动，一个学生职业之夜和一个大使计划的晚餐。 两者都旨在促进学员和代表学会各方面的科学家在一个轻松的论坛上建立联系，促进就该领域的未来计划和职业机会进行公开讨论。还鼓励受训人员担任协会大多数委员会的临时成员，从而加深他们对协会的参与。 该资助申请的具体目的是1）申请学生和博士后研究员参加2011年年会的旅行奖励资金，以及2）部分支持主要非会员演讲者的旅行费用。畸形学会认为，它的学生和博士后研究员是社会和科学家的社会培养的科学事业的未来。旅行奖有助于抵消经济负担，否则可能会阻止学生和博士后研究员参加。申请书还要求提供资金，以部分支付应邀的非成员发言者的旅费。会员发言者将获得一晚住宿，并同意支付参加会议的所有其他费用。然而，有必要为应邀的非成员发言者提供差旅费，他们为维持这一世界级会议提供了必要的想法。 公共卫生相关性：畸形学会汇集了学术，工业和政府科学家，他们调查导致出生缺陷和发育障碍的原因和生物过程。致力于支持，鼓励和学生和博士后研究员的培训，学会理解让他们参与年会的重要性。畸形学学会年度会议的科学目标以及培训和外联目标都需要外部支助，用于受邀演讲者的旅费以及学生和博士后研究员的旅费奖励。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant) The Teratology Society was founded in 1960 to foster the exchange of information relating to congenital (birth) defects including their nature, cause, mechanism, and prevention. In 2011, the Society will hold its 51st Annual Meeting in Coronado, California. The meeting provides a place and time to network and indulge in discussions from philosophical to practical with established experts in the field, new researchers, and students. It is also a place and time to promote and express our scientific diversity as a Society of fellow clinicians, scientists and science policy regulators from academic, industrial, and governmental sectors. The Society understands the importance of encouraging and mentoring students and postdoctoral fellows, including fostering education and training as part of its strategic goals. The meeting agenda includes events and sessions to encourage student and postdoctoral fellow participation. There will be one platform session which highlights the research of graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. This platform session is comprised of talks competitively selected from the pool of abstracts submitted for platform presentation by students and postdoctoral fellows. Those students and postdoctoral fellows whose abstracts are not selected for this session are included in other platform and poster sessions throughout the meeting. Student and postdoctoral fellow posters are marked as such in order to encourage interaction among the presenters and the members of the Society and meeting attendees. In addition, there are two student mentoring activities, a Student Career Night and a Dine with an Ambassador program. Both are designed to promote networking between trainees and scientists representing all facets of the Society in a relaxed forum that promotes open discussions related to future plans and career opportunities in the field. The trainees are also encouraged to serve as ad hoc members on the majority of the Society's committees, thereby deepening their involvement within the Society. The specific aims of this grant application are 1) to request funds for Travel Awards to students and postdoctoral fellows to attend the 2011 Annual Meeting, and 2) to partially support travel expenses for key non-member speakers. The Teratology Society believes that its students and postdoctoral fellows are the future of both the Society and the scientific endeavors fostered by its community of scientists. Travel Awards assist in offsetting the financial burden that might otherwise prevent students and postdoctoral fellows from attending. The application also requests funds to partially defray travel costs for invited non-member speakers. Member speakers are provided lodging for one night and agree to cover all other expenses for participation in the conference. However, it is necessary to assist with travel expenses for invited non-member speakers, who provide cross-fertilization of ideas necessary for sustaining this world class meeting. Public Health Relevance: The Teratology Society brings together academic, industrial, and governmental scientists who investigate the causes and biological processes leading to birth defects and developmental disabilities. Committed to the support, encouragement, and training of students and postdoctoral fellows, the Society understands the importance of involving them in its Annual Meeting. Both the scientific objectives and the training and outreach goals of the Teratology Society annual meetings require external support for invited speaker travel and for student and postdoctoral fellow travel awards.