SCDB Meeting:Innovations in Development University of California SC August 08-11, 2012

科学会议在由美国国家科学基金会和其他国家和国际来源资助的科学家之间交流新思想和新成果方面起着至关重要的作用。由于科学研究的成功越来越多地建立在最近的技术进步和发现的基础上，这种交流有助于加速重要的研究，增加研究经费的回报。这项提案将资助一个发展生物学家的全国性会议，2012年圣克鲁斯发展生物学会议，今年的主题是发展生物学的创新。这个两年一次的会议是发育生物学领域的两个主要会议之一。2012年会议由鲍勃·戈尔茨坦、阿曼德·克拉克和约翰·塔姆昆组织，将于8月8日至11日在加州大学圣克鲁斯分校举行。将有大约160名参与者，包括28名受邀演讲者和一位诺贝尔奖获得者和另外两位在该领域前沿的科学家的最新进展的主题演讲。每位演讲者将介绍他/她的实验室最近的研究成果，并将举办关于职业发展问题的研讨会。会议将产生更广泛的影响，包括研究生和博士后的教育和培训，他们将成为未来的教育工作者、学术科学家和工业科学家。受邀演讲者的选择主要基于他们对该领域的贡献，因此他们将为促进该领域发展的交流做出重大贡献的可能性，其次平衡职业阶段，地理，性别，年龄，种族和实验方法，以帮助确保广泛接触各种新颖的贡献，并为年轻科学家的职业发展提供有价值的榜样。在会议结束时，提出的结果将通过在科学期刊上发表而广泛传播。

Scientific conferences serve a vital role in the exchange of new ideas and results among scientists funded by the NSF and by other national and international sources. Because the success of scientific research builds increasingly on very recent technical advances and findings, such exchanges serve to accelerate important research, increasing the return on research funding. This proposal will fund a national conference for developmental biologists, the 2012 Santa Cruz Developmental Biology Meeting, centered this year on the theme of Innovations in Developmental Biology. This biennial conference is one of the two major conferences in the field of developmental biology. The 2012 conference, organized by Bob Goldstein, Amander Clark and John Tamkun, will be held August 8-11 on the University of California, Santa Cruz campus. There will be approximately 160 participants, including 28 invited speakers and keynote lectures on recent advances from a Nobel Laureate and two other scientists at the forefront of the field. Each speaker will present results from his/her laboratory's recent research, and workshops will be held on career development issues. Broader impacts from the conference will include the education and training of graduate students and postdoctoral fellows who will become the educators, academic scientists and industry scientists of the future. Invited speakers were selected by the organizers based primarily on their contributions to the field and hence the likelihood that they would contribute significantly to exchanges that will advance the field, and secondarily balancing career stage, geography, gender, age, race, and experimental approaches, to help ensure broad exposure to a variety of novel contributions as well as valuable role models for the career development of young scientists. At the conclusion of the conference, results presented will be disseminated widely through publication in scientific journals.