The Third International Mouse Genome Meeting, Oxford, England, August 1989

成立了一个组织委员会，以建立一个国际小鼠基因组组织，该组织将协调小鼠遗传信息数据库，组织关于小鼠基因组的定期会议，增加对实验室小鼠进行遗传分析的机会，并协调绘制小鼠和人类基因组图。1987年9月在巴黎和1988年6月在美国举行的两次国际基因图谱会议的与会者一致认为，显然有必要举行进一步的会议。1989年8月，第三届国际小鼠基因组会议将在英国牛津举行。这次会议的目标是(1)提供一个论坛，继续交流新的基因作图数据、遗传数据的计算机分析方法和基因组作图和测序数据；(2)建立委员会，整合复杂的高分辨率作图和小鼠基因组特定区域的测序；(3)促进小鼠基因组分析方面的国际合作；(4)协调小鼠遗传数据库；(5)使国际小鼠基因组组织正规化。这次会议制作的综合高分辨率图谱不仅对于研究小鼠基因组组织和进化至关重要，而且对于识别小鼠突变也是必不可少的。这种突变不仅是治疗的模式系统，还提供了有关代谢功能、与发育、免疫学和癌症有关的重要线索。该奖项将支持选定的美国年轻科学家参加这一重要会议的旅行。

An organizing committee has been formed to establish an International Mouse Genome Organization that would coordinate mouse genetic information databases, organize regular meetings on the mouse genome, enhance opportunities for genetic analysis of the laboratory mouse and coordinate the development of maps of mouse and human genomes. Participants in two international gene mapping meetings held in Paris in September, 1987, and in the U.S.A. in June, 1988, have agreed there is a clear need for further meetings. In August, 1989, the Third International Mouse Genome meeting will be held in Oxford, England. The goals of this meeting are (1) to provide a forum to continue the exchange of new gene mapping data, methods for computer analysis of genetic data and genome mapping and sequencing data; (2) to establish committees to integrate complex high resolution mapping and sequencing of specific regions of the mouse genome; (3) to stimulate international collaboration in mouse genome analysis; (4) to coordinate mouse genetic databases; and (5) to formalize the International Mouse Genome Organization. The integrated high resolution maps produced by this meeting are essential not only for studying mouse genome organization and evolution, but also for identifying mouse mutations. Such mutations not only are model systems for therapy but also provide important clues about metabolic function, bearing on development, immunology and cancer. This award will support the travel of selected young United States scientists to participate in this important meeting.