FASEB-sponsored Research Conference on Yeast Chromosome Structure being held in Snowmass Village, Colorado on August 19-24, 2000.

我们对酵母染色体结构、染色体复制和分离的机制和控制的了解进展迅速。为了将这一领域的顶尖科学家和新科学家聚集在一起，美国实验生物学学会联合会（FASEB）将于2000年8月19日至24日在科罗拉多州斯诺马斯村主办一次关于酵母染色体结构、复制和分离的研究会议。这次会议将是该领域最成功和最重要的会议的第六次会议。这次会议在几个重要领域取得了成功。首先也是最重要的是，所提出的发现总是处于“前沿”，因为前五次会议中的每一次都坚持了主要提出未发表结果的强大传统。其次，大多数酵母染色体传播领域的领导者都参加了会议，与许多会议形成鲜明对比的是，首席研究员出席并积极参与了整个会议。会议还提供了学生、博士后、初级和高级研究人员的良好平衡，非正式的氛围极大地促进了年轻和年长科学家之间的互动。对于学生来说，这是他们科学教育的一个重要方面，对于首席研究员来说，会议使他们了解最新的发现并促进合作努力。在过去的五次会议中，妇女和少数民族作为组织者和发言者的参与非常出色，并且仍然是本次会议的一个优势。最后，这是唯一一个专门讨论这个话题的会议。因此，对于研究染色体结构和遗传的科学家来说，这次会议是传播重要发现的重要媒介，也是产生科学互动的主要来源。2000年会议的目标是将该领域的领导者和新的研究人员聚集在一起，继续过去五届会议所具有的极高水平的兴奋和科学卓越。

Progress in our understanding of yeast chromosome structure, and the mechanisms and control of chromosome replication and segregation continues to proceed at a rapid pace. To bring together leading and new scientists that work in this area, The Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) will sponsor a research conference on Yeast Chromosome Structure, Replication and Segregation to be held August 19-24, 2000, at Snowmass Village, Colorado. This conference will represent the sixth iteration of what has become the most successful and important meeting of this field. This conference succeeds in several essential areas. First and foremost, the findings presented are always on the "cutting edge", as each of the five previous meetings have upheld a strong tradition of presenting primarily unpublished results. Second, the meeting is attended by most of the leaders in the yeast chromosome transmission field, and in striking contrast to many meetings, Principal Investigators are present and actively participate for the entire meeting. The conference also provides a good balance of students, postdoctoral fellows, junior and senior researchers, with an informal atmosphere that contributes greatly to interactions between younger and older scientists. For students, this serves as an essential aspect of their scientific education, and for Principal Investigators, the conference keeps them abreast of the latest findings and stimulates collaborative efforts. Participation of women and minorities, both as organizers and as session speakers has been excellent for the past five meetings, and remains a strength of this current meeting. Finally, this is the only conference that is specifically devoted to this topic. Therefore, for scientists working on chromosome structure and transmission, this meeting has served as a critical vehicle for the dissemination of important findings and a major source for generating scientific interactions. The objectives for the 2000 meeting are to bring together both leaders in the field as well as new investigators, to continue the extremely high level of excitement and scientific excellence that has characterized the past five conferences.