FASEB Summer Research Conference on Retinoids to be held June 25-30, 2000, at the Copper Mountain Conference Center in Colorado.

第十届FASEB关于维甲酸的夏季研究会议将于2000年6月25日至30日在科罗拉多州的铜山会议中心举行。对维甲酸(维生素A及其代谢物和类似物)的研究有望为各种基本细胞过程的机制提供基本的见解，包括细胞凋亡、脊椎动物发育和转录调控。这次FASEB会议为研究维甲酸的快速增长和多样化的国际科学家社区提供了“大本营”。这次会议跨学科、主题多样的计划旨在突出主要发展，激发新想法，促进深入的大学互动，加强现有合作，并激发新的合作。通过会议的篇幅和结构，会议为更多的初级研究人员提供了与国内外资深科学家互动的充分机会。所有与会者，包括演讲者，都被鼓励展示海报。初级调查人员的优秀海报将由一个委员会选出；这些调查人员将被邀请在会议上发表他们的研究报告。会议将以Pierre Chambon教授的全体演讲开始。将有9场会议，由49名受邀发言者/与会者和大约10名海报口头演讲者组成。每一届会议主席将提供一个简要概述。将鼓励发言者介绍他们最近未发表的作品--事实上，挑选发言者的一个标准是在会议期间取得重大未发表进展的可能性。从出席率和与会者的反馈来看，以前的会议都非常成功。因此，这一系列会议有着良好的记录，是2000年会议的基础。这一系列出席人数众多的研究会议一直是唯一一个讨论维甲酸生物学全谱的全国性和主要的国际论坛。这笔奖金将用于支付初级调查人员的会议费用。

Napoli, Joseph L.The tenth biannual FASEB Summer Research Conference on Retinoids will be held June 25-30,2000, at the Copper Mountain Conference Center in Colorado. The study of retinoids (vitamin A and its metabolites and analogs) promises to provide fundamental insights into the mechanisms of diverse basic cellular processes, including apoptosis, vertebrate development, and transcriptional regulation. This FASEB conference provides the "home base" for a rapidly growing and diversifying international community of scientists who work with retinoids. The interdisciplinary, topically diverse program of this meeting is planned to highlight major developments, foment new ideas, facilitate in-depth collegial interactions, reinforce existing collaborations, and kindle new ones. Through its length and structure, the conference provides ample opportunities for more junior investigators to interact with senior scientists from this country and abroad. All attendees, including speakers, are encouraged to present a poster. Outstanding posters by junior investigators will be selected by a committee; these investigators will be invited to present their research in talks to the conference. The conference will begin with a plenary lecture by Professor Pierre Chambon. There will be nine sessions consisting of 49 invited speakers/participants and approximately 10 oral presenters of posters. Each session chairperson will provide a brief overview. Speakers will be encouraged to present their most recent unpublished work-indeed, one criterion in the selection of speakers was the likelihood of significant unpublished advances at the time of the meeting. Previous conferences have been very successful, judging by the turnout and feedback of the attendees. Thus, this series has an excellent record on which to base theYear 2000 conference.This series of well-attended research meetings has been the sole national and the major international forum that address the full spectrum of retinoid biology. This award will be used to defray the meeting expenses of junior investigators.