Symposium - Adaptations for Salt and Water Balance in Vertebrates, Nagoya Japan, May 31 - June 5, 2011

这些资金支持研究生、博士后研究员和生物化学研究人员参加将在日本名古屋举行的比较生理学和生物化学国际会议（ICCPB 2011）。与会者将建立世界范围内的联系，并获得跨文化接触感兴趣的机构在全球环境对动物的影响。了解动物如何适应环境变化的进展将支持在各级保护生物多样性的目标。基金将支持那些有表现出的接受能力和潜力的个人，以推进上皮液体和溶质动力学及其调节领域。一组精选的个人将在一个专题讨论会上发表演讲，重点是理解上皮细胞在水和溶质平衡中的作用所必需的概念，这种平衡在维持所有生命的基本功能中起着至关重要的作用。上皮细胞存在于所有器官中，以细胞片的形式存在，由细胞间精确排列的连接蛋白组装在一起。值得注意的是，水和溶质流动通过细胞的thepithelial片的动力学是高度集成的流动通过交界处的上皮片，在regulated，但知之甚少的方式。研讨会的发言者将强调细胞与细胞的接触和这些系统的可塑性如何以及为什么对所有脊椎动物的组织水和溶质动力学是至关重要的。其他受此资助的个人有机会在海报会议上面对面地展示他们的研究成果，与来自几乎每个大陆的科学家在广泛的生物学领域工作。一个主要目标将是确定和选择妇女和代表性不足的少数民族背景的个人作为这些旅行资金的接受者。2011年ICCPB对学生和实习生的资助将在吸引和留住最聪明和最训练有素的比较生理学家方面发挥关键作用。

These funds support participation of graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, and younginvestigators at the International Conference on Comparative Physiology and Biochemistry(ICCPB 2011), to be held in Nagoya, Japan. Participants will build world-wide connections andgain cross-cultural exposure to institutions interested in global environmental effects on animals.Advances in understanding how animals adapt to environmental changes will support goals ofsafeguarding biodiversity at all levels. Funds will support individuals who have demonstratedexceptional aptitude and potential for advancing the field of epithelial fluid and solute dynamicsand its regulation. A select group of individuals will present talks in a symposium focusing onconcepts essential to understanding the role of epithelia in water and solute balance thisbalance has an overarching role in maintaining all life's basic functions. Epithelia are found in allorgans, and exist as sheets of cells, assembled together by precisely arranged junctional proteinsthat lie between cells. Notably, the dynamics of water and solute flows through cells of theepithelial sheet are highly integrated with flows through junctions of the epithelial sheet, in aregulated, but poorly understood fashion. The symposium speakers will stress the importance ofhow and why cell-to-cell contact and plasticity of these systems are fundamental to appropriatetissue water and solute dynamics for all vertebrates. Other individuals supported by this grantwill have the opportunity to present their research findings, face-to-face in poster sessions, withscientists from nearly every continent who work in widely diverse biological fields. A major goalwill be to identify and select women and individuals of underrepresented ethnic minoritybackground as recipients of these travel funds. Funding for student and trainee initiatives atICCPB 2011 will play a key role in attracting and retaining the brightest and best-trainedcomparative physiologists.