2008 Santa Cruz Developmental Biology Meeting, University of California-Santa Cruz Campus, June 26-30, 2008

发育生物学是现代生物学中最令人兴奋的领域之一。该奖项将资助2008年圣克鲁斯发育生物学（SCDB）会议。SCDB会议在范围上是国际性的，但对初级教师、博士后研究员和研究生也很容易进入。2008年会议将围绕“发展转型”这一主题举行。会议将有49位讲台演讲者，其中21位将从提交给会议组织者的摘要中选出，让博士后和研究生有充分的机会展示自己的数据。两次海报会议允许所有其他与会者展示他们的作品。2008年SCDB会议将对发育生物学领域产生重大的积极影响，向约200名与会者介绍这一激动人心的领域的最新进展，在该领域的主要期刊上传播会议报告的结果，并促进对处于职业生涯早期阶段的科学家的培训。将努力吸引一批代表所研究领域的多样性和所采用的方法在性别方面平衡的参与者，并增加代表性不足的少数群体的参与。该奖项将帮助实现这一目标，为8名研究生和博士后提供与会议相关的注册和住宿费用，以增加参与者的多样性，并为4名将发表演讲的初级教员提供注册和住宿费用。

Developmental biology is one of the most exciting areas of modern biology. This award will help fund the 2008 Santa Cruz Developmental Biology (SCDB) Meeting. SCDB meetings are international in scope but are also highly accessible to junior faculty, postdoctoral fellows, and graduate students. The 2008 Meeting will be organized around the theme "Transitions in Development". The meeting will have 49 platform speakers, of which 21 will be chosen from abstracts submitted to the meeting organizers, allowing postdocs and graduate students ample opportunity to present their own data. Two poster sessions allow all other attendees to present their work. The 2008 SCDB Meeting will have a significant positive impact on the field of developmental biology, educating the ~200 participants in the latest advances in this exciting area, disseminating the results in a meeting report in a leading journal in the field, and fostering training for scientists in the early stages of their careers. Efforts will be made to attract a group of participants that represents the diversity of the field in organism studied and approach used that is balanced in gender, and that increases participation by underrepresented minorities. This award will help achieve this goal, by providing meeting associated registration and housing costs for eight graduate students and postdoctoral fellows, selected to increase the diversity of the participants, as well as registration and housing costs for four junior faculty members who will present talks.