U.S.-Japan Seminar: Molecular and Cellular Basis of Circadian Clocks/July 1994/Honolulu, Hawaii

9315601该奖项支持11名美国与会者参加将于1994年7月在夏威夷火奴鲁鲁举行的美日生物钟分子和细胞基础研讨会。研讨会的联合组织者是弗吉尼亚大学NSF生物计时中心主任吉恩·布洛克和日本北里大学医学院生理系长谷川健二。除了来自美国大学的科学家外，两名美国高中生物教师将参加研讨会。鉴于生物计时这一领域的快速进展，这一研究课题是及时和重要的。这两个国家的实验室都产生了重要的新信息。例如，三个新的昼夜节律分子研究模型系统的开发将为分子遗传学在生物计时研究中的应用提供新的机会。此外，最近在哺乳动物下丘脑器官型脑片和软体动物完全分离的起搏神经元方面的成功将为生物钟的体外研究提供新的令人兴奋的机会。研讨会将被录像，并将通过NSF中心的录像节目进行观看。***

9315601 Block This award supports the participation of eleven U.S. participants in a U.S.-Japan Seminar on the Molecular and Cellular Basis of Circadian Clocks, to be held in July 1994 in Honolulu, Hawaii. The co-organizers of the seminar are Gene Block, Director of the NSF Center for Biological Timing, University of Virginia, and Kenji Hasegawa, Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, Kitasato University, Japan. In addition to scientists from U.S. universities, two U.S. high school biology teachers will participate in the seminar. The research topic is timely and important given the very rapid advances in this area of biological timing. Laboratories in both countries have yielded significant new information. For example, the development of three new model systems for the molecular study of circadian timing will provide new opportunities for the application of molecular genetics to the study of biological timing. In addition, recent success with organotypic hypothalamic brain slice in mammals and with fully isolated pacemaker neurons in mollusks will provide new and exciting opportunities for the in vitro study of biological clocks. The seminar will be videotaped and will be available through the NSF Center's videotape program. ***