2016 Aspen/Snowmass Perinatal Biology Meeting

 描述（由申请人提供）：本申请寻求旅行费用的资金，以允许来自美国的12名受训人员或新研究人员参加2016年白杨/斯诺马斯围产期生物学会议。美国围产期研究的悠久传统巩固了我们对胎儿发育生理基础的认识。在过去的20年里，细胞和分子技术被纳入研究，使人们能够深入了解胎儿生理学的发育基础和先兆子痫、IUGR、糖尿病和早产的病理生理学，以及与围产期发病率和死亡率相关的情况。人们越来越认识到，子宫内的生命与成年期疾病的发展有关，即健康和成人疾病或胎儿编程的发育起源。这重新引起了人们对围产期生理学的兴趣。围产期研究社区是多学科的;汇集了对孕产妇，胎儿和胎盘生理学感兴趣的临床医生和基础科学家以及大量从事与人类生理学和发育密切相关的比较研究的农业动物科学家。它还具有培养年轻基础和临床科学家的悠久传统。他们的培训经验的一个重要组成部分是有机会在他们可以与高级科学家互动的场所展示工作，并从榜样那里获得指导的好处。本次会议将围绕“连接动物和人类系统以了解终身疾病”的综合主题，介绍孕产妇、胎儿、胎盘和农业动物研究人员的情况。“会议将为期3天半，包括多个口头全体会议，包括新的调查员。全体会议将伴随着几个互动研讨会，解决关键问题和面临的挑战，年轻的研究人员在围产期生物学。计划举行两次海报讨论会，并将在整个会议期间展示海报，以便有时间深入讨论工作。获奖者将被授予最佳海报演示由学员或新的研究者。将根据科学咨询委员会对提交的第一作者摘要的审查选择受训人员和新的研究人员，以获得差旅费。在以往的会议上，女性与会者的比例一直很高（在我们上次会议上超过50%），在本次会议上，女性发言人和会议主席的代表性也很高。我们的少数民族代表约占15%，我们将继续努力提高这一数字，特别是指定至少33%的要求预算用于代表不足的少数民族年轻调查员的旅行。我们选择的场地符合美国残疾人法案，并提供托儿服务和许多家庭活动，以方便所有人参加。

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application seeks funding for travel costs to allow the attendance of 12 trainees or new investigators from the USA at the 2016 Aspen/Snowmass Perinatal Biology Conference. The longstanding tradition of perinatal research in the US underpins our knowledge of the physiologic basis of fetal development. Cellular and molecular techniques incorporated into investigation in the last 20 years have allowed in depth understanding of the developmental basis of fetal physiology and the pathophysiology of preeclampsia, IUGR, diabetes and premature delivery, situations associated with perinatal morbidity and mortality. There has been a burgeoning recognition that life in utero is associated with the development of disease in adult life, i.e. the developmental origins of health and adult disease or fetal programming. This has brought renewed interest in perinatal physiology. The perinatal research community is multidisciplinary; bringing together clinicians and basic scientists interested in maternal, fetal, and placental physiology and a substantial cadre of agricultural animal scientists who perform comparative studies of great relevance to human physiology and development. It also has a strong tradition of training young basic and clinician scientists. A vital part of their training experience is the opportunity to present work n venues where they can interact with senior scientists and receive the benefit of mentorship from role models. This meeting will feature presentations from maternal, fetal, placental and agricultural animal researchers around an integrated theme of "Interconnecting animal and human systems to understand life-long disease." The meeting will be 3 and 1/2 days with multiple oral plenary sessions including new investigators. Plenary sessions will be accompanied by several interactive workshop sessions addressing key questions and challenges facing young investigators in perinatal biology. Two poster discussion sessions are scheduled and posters will be displayed for the entire meeting to allow time for in-depth discussion of work. Prizes will be awarded for the best poster presentations by trainees or new investigators. Trainees and new investigators will be selected based on review of submitted first author abstracts by the Scientific Advisory Committee for award of travel funds. There has always been a high proportion (over 50% at our last meeting) of women attendees at previous meetings and women speakers and session chairs at this meeting are well represented. Our minority representation is around 15%, and we will continue efforts to improve this number, especially with the designation of a minimum of 33% of the requested budget used for travel by underrepresented minority young investigators. Our selected venue is compliant with the American's with Disabilities Act and also provides childcare and numerous family activities to facilitate attendance by all individuals.