Sex Determination and Dosage Compensation, Conference and Workshop, October 31-November 3, 1989, Bangalore, India,Group Travel Award in U.S. and Indian Currencies

描述：该项目资助12名美国科学家参加将于1989年10月31日至11月3日在印度班加罗尔举行的性决定和剂量补偿国际会议和研讨会。印度的组织者是H.Sharat Chandra博士，他是位于班加罗尔的印度科学研究所(IISc)微生物学和细胞生物学系主任。预计还将有来自西欧的10名演讲者和来自印度的35名资深科学家以及来自印度研究所的约50名研究生参加。将涵盖六个主要主题：控制性别决定早期事件的基因；剂量补偿；控制性别决定后期事件的基因；染色体与性别；印记；以及性别决定和剂量补偿的进化。参与者将就这些主题交换信息，因为这些主题适用于果蝇和哺乳动物。范围：美国和印度的组织者都是遗传学领域的杰出科学家，来自享有极高声誉的机构。IISC拥有世界上最古老的生物化学系之一，拥有约120名生命科学研究生。1981年在班加罗尔IISC组织的一次有关主题的会议被誉为非常成功，并在《自然》(1982)上作了报道。这次会议是由印度国家科学院和印度政府原子能部门以及国际空间科学委员会共同主办的。这次会议可能会加强美国和印度科学家在遗传和微生物学领域的合作，并在这一快速变化的科学领域交流信息。

Description: This project supports travel of twelve U.S. scientists to the International Conference and Workshop on Sex Determiantion and Dosage Compensation, to be held in Bangalore, India, between October 31 and November 3, 1989. The Indian organizer is Dr. H. Sharat Chandra, Chairman, Microbiology and Cell Biology Department at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore. Ten speakers from Western Europe, and 35 senior scientists from India are also expected to participate, in addition to approximately 50 graduate students from Indian Institutes. Six major topics are to be covered: Genes controlling early events in sex determination; dosage compensation; genes controlling later events in sex determination; chromosones and sex; imprinting; and evolution of sex determination and dosage compensation. The participants will exchange information on these topics as they apply to the Drosophila and to mammals. Scope: The U.S. and Indian organizers are eminent scientists in the field of genetics and are from institutes with excellent reputations. IISc has one of the oldest biochemistry departments in the world, and has some 120 graduate students in life sciences. A conference on a related topic organized at the IISc in Bangalore in 1981 was acclaimed as being very successful and was reported on in Nature (1982). This meeting is cosponsored by the Indian National Science Academy, and the Department of Atomic Energy of the Government of India in addition to the IISc. The meeting is likely to lead to enhanced collaboration, in the fields of genetic and microbiology, between U.S. and Indian scientists, and to provide for exchange of information in this rapidly changing area of science.