Satellite Conference: Annual Meeting of the Society of Neuroscience on October 25,2004; San Diego, CA

这是为神经科学学会年会期间的卫星会议“神经胶质会议”申请资金的申请。该项目目前由NSF资助（资助号0316893，标题为“胶质祖细胞分化的分子机制”），通过综合生物学和神经科学部门授予Akiko Nishiyama。这笔资金将用于支持神经胶质会议，该会议被列为2004年圣地亚哥神经科学学会会议的附属会议。会议记录如下：“越来越多的人认识到神经胶质不是胶水。神经胶质会议是一个非正式的聚会，来自不同背景的研究人员分享神经胶质生物学的新发现和令人兴奋的发现，并确定未解决的问题。将有一个或两个简短的演讲，然后是所有与会者之间的非正式讨论和互动。会有茶点供应。”会议将于2004年10月25日下午6点半至9点在加州圣地亚哥的一个会议大楼举行，这周的中间时段将举行神经科学学会年会。这次会议吸引了超过25,000名参与者，是促进对神经胶质生物学感兴趣的不同研究人员之间非正式互动的绝佳机会。第一次神经胶质会议于2003年在新奥尔良举行，由Harold Kimelberg博士组织，也是在年度神经科学会议期间。今年，我们有幸邀请到哥伦比亚大学的James Goldman博士他将为我们带来他最近关于活体神经胶质细胞迁移的研究。多年来，他一直在研究各种类型胶质细胞的发育和病理，并一直是揭示星形胶质细胞和少突胶质细胞谱系细胞的起源和迁移行为的关键贡献者之一。会议将包括一些少数民族和妇女作为与会者。由于组织者是一名非白人背景的妇女，演讲者是从一般人群中选出的，并根据具有最佳科学资格的人选出的。

This is a request for funds to support a satellite meeting "Glial Meeting" during the Annual Meeting for the Society for Neuroscience. The PI currently has funds from NSF (grant #0316893 titled 'Molecular mechanisms of glial progenitor cell differentiation') awarded to Akiko Nishiyama through the Integrative Biology and Neuroscience Division.The funds will be used to support a Glial Meeting, which is listed as a satellite/ancillary meeting to the 2004 Society for Neuroscience meeting in San Diego. The following description of the meeting will be printed in the Program: 'There is increasing recognition that glia is not glue. The Glial Meeting is an informal gathering for investigators from diverse backgrounds to share new and exciting findings in glial biology and identify unsolved problems. There will be one or two short presentations followed by informal discussion and interactions among all attendees. Light refreshments will be served.' It will be held from 6:30 to 9:00 pm on October 25, 2004, in one of the meeting buildings in San Diego, CA, in the middle of the week during which the Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience will be held. This meeting attracts more than 25,000 participants and is an excellent occasion to promote informal interaction among a diverse group of investigators interested in glial biology. The first Glial Meeting was held in 2003 and was organized by Dr. Harold Kimelberg in New Orleans, also during the Annual Neuroscience Meeting. This year, we are fortunate to have Dr. James Goldman from Columbia University who will present a talk on his recent studies on glial cell migration in living slices. Dr. Goldman has been studying the development and pathology of various types of glial cells for a number of years and has been one of the key contributors to uncovering the origin and migratory behavior of astrocytes and oligodendrocyte lineage cells. The meeting will include a number of minorities and women as participants. Since the organizer is a women and from a non-white background, the speaker was chosen from a general the population and was selected on the basis of one with the best scientific qualifications.