Educational supplement for the 30th Summer Symposium in Molecular Biology

第30届宾夕法尼亚州立大学分子生物学夏季研讨会将于2011年6月21日至24日在宾夕法尼亚州大学公园举行。本次研讨会的主题是“染色质与转录的表观遗传调控”。研讨会将讨论染色质的组织和转录的遗传和表观遗传调控的机制基础。课程主题如下：基因组学、核组织、染色质机制、表观遗传学和伸长控制。22位受邀演讲者的名单由领导染色质结构和表观遗传学领域研究的国际知名科学家组成。宾夕法尼亚州立大学夏季研讨会独特的智力优势在于，它将会议的顶级科学水平与大型大学校园的位置结合在一起，使在宾夕法尼亚州立大学好时和大学公园校园接受暑期培训的广大研究生、本科生和高中生都可以很容易地接触到研讨会。宾夕法尼亚州立大学的一组教员收集了22位受邀演讲者的名单，并从提交的摘要中挑选了另外30位口头演讲。更广泛的影响夏季研讨会将为宾夕法尼亚州立大学的科学家和其他机构之间的信息交流提供一个工具。它对本科生、研究生和博士后研究员来说是经济上的，他们约占与会者的75%。这些学生中的许多人是代表人数不足的团体的成员，或者代表宾夕法尼亚州中部的农村地区。全体讲座对公众开放。

Intellectual Merit The 30th Penn State Summer Symposium in Molecular Biology will be held June 21-24, 2011 at University Park, PA. The topic of this symposium is "Chromatin and Epigenetic Regulation of Transcription". The symposium will cover chromatin organization and the mechanistic basis for genetic and epigenetic regulation of transcription. The session topics are as follows: Genomics, Nuclear Organization, Chromatin Mechanisms, Epigenetics, and Elongation Control. The roster of 22 invited speakers is composed of internationally acclaimed scientists who lead research in the field of chromatin structure and epigenetics. The unique intellectual strength of the Penn State Summer symposium is that it is combines the top scientific level of the meeting with location at a big University campus that makes it readily accessible to a wide body of graduate, undergraduate, and high school students undergoing summer training at the Penn State Hershey and University Park campuses. A group of faculty at Pennsylvania State University have assembled a list of 22 invited speakers with an additional 30 oral presentations selected from submitted abstracts. Broader Impacts The summer symposium will provide a vehicle for exchange of information between scientists at Penn State and other institutions. It is financially accessible to undergraduate and graduate students and postdoctoral fellows, who comprise about 75% of attendees. Many of these students are members of underrepresented groups or represent rural areas in central Pennsylvania. The plenary lecture is open to the general public.