Biannual Meeting of the Society for Research on Biological Rhythms

描述(由申请人提供)：我们请求部分支持2014年生物节律研究学会会议，会议将于2014年6月14-18日在MT大天空度假村举行。这次会议吸引了600多人参加，将集中讨论代表时间生物学关键研究领域的广泛主题，包括分子生物学、遗传学、细胞生物学、神经生物学、生理学、新陈代谢、癌症、衰老、免疫学、行为学、睡眠、数学建模和应用研究。会议的主题是“生物钟与科学和社会的相关性”，反映了生物钟在多大程度上基本上影响到生理和疾病的各个方面。会议将包括18个受邀演讲者的座谈会和12个幻灯片会议(从提交的摘要中挑选)，这些会议将最好的基础时钟研究与那些将这些信息转化为人类应用的研究相结合。研讨会的演讲者和会议主席是各自领域公认的领导者，他们被选中代表我们的广度，实现我们连接基础和应用生物钟研究的目标。对文化和地理多样性以及性别平衡给予了特别关注。我们的目标是通过在少数族裔机构宣传会议，并利用NIH的资金，为研究生、博士后研究员和代表性不足的群体提供旅行奖励，进一步改善这种多样性。为了进一步鼓励参与，在选择幻灯片会议的演示者时，这些小组将被给予优先地位。所有会议摘要将在SRBR网站上向公众提供。会议的培训内容得到了充分的发展，包括为学生和博士后举办的为期一天的培训日，以及在主要会议之前举行的初级教师研讨会。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): We request partial support for the 2014 Society for Research on Biological Rhythms Conference, to be held at the Big Sky Resort in Big Sky MT, from June 14-18, 2014. This meeting, which attracts over 600 attendees, will focus on the breadth of topics that represent key research areas in chronobiology, including molecular biology, genetics, cell biology, neurobiology, physiology, metabolism, cancer, aging, immunology, behavior, sleep, mathematical modeling, and applied research. The theme of meeting is "the relevance of biological clocks to science and society", which reflects the extent to which circadian clocks affect essentially all aspects of physiology and disease. The meeting will feature 18 symposia of invited speakers, and 12 slide sessions (selected from submitted abstracts) that combine the best of basic clock research with those that translate this information into human applications. The symposium speakers and session chairs are recognized leaders in their fields, and were chosen to represent our breadth and realize our goal of bridging basic and applied circadian clock research. Special attention has been given to cultural and geographical diversity, as well as gender balance. We aim to improve this diversity further through advertisement of the meeting at minority institutions, and with NIH funding, to provide offers of travel awards to graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and under-represented groups. To further encourage participation, these groups will be given priority status when selecting presenters for the slide sessions. All meeting abstracts will be made available to the public on the SRBR web site. Training aspects of the meeting are fully developed, and include a highly subscribed one- day training day for students and postdocs, and junior faculty workshops, which precede the main meeting.