FASEB CONFERENCE/CALCIUM AND CELL FUNCTION

将举行关于钙与细胞功能的国际会议 1998年7月5日至10日，科罗拉多州库珀山度假村。这次会议 将在美国人联合会的赞助下举行 实验生物学学会(FASEB)。会议将集中讨论 关于生物化学、分子生物学、结构/功能以及 钙作为一种信息离子的生理学作用 每一种主要的生物活动。我们的总体目标是将 一群不同的科学家致力于研究钙的所有阶段及其 在细胞功能中的作用。努力将女发言者包括在内； 目前，36位演讲者中有10位是女性。几个初级的(即 非终身任期)调查人员也在发言者名单上，以及其他 我们将留出时间，根据最好的海报进行简短的演讲 已提交。这次会议的形式将类似于 以前的FASE夏季研究会议。要涵盖的主题 将会是：钙的内流机制和内部储存，分子 钙敏感生物学及钙在蛋白质中的作用 磷酸化和去磷酸化，外向/内吞，基因表达， 神经功能，遗传上易处理的非脊椎动物系统，以及 药物筛选和临床病理学。 这是在北美历史悠久的主要会议上举行的，会议的重点是 完全基于钙，涵盖了钙研究的范围，而不是 而不是一个单一的分支学科。已经做出了特别的努力来 尽量减少与其他与钙相关的话题和演讲者的重叠 关于钙信号的戈登会议和1998年 普通生理学家协会关于局部钙信号的会议 目前的会议较少强调描述和机制 钙信号的产生和更多的强调 这些信号对细胞生物学、病理学和治疗的影响。 关于遗传易处理的模型和药物的会议 筛查特别不寻常和及时，因为钙指示剂 现在可以通过分子导入细胞和转基因生物中 仅仅是遗传手段，因为钙的影响最近已经成为 几个快速增长的生物技术应用的基础和 公司。此会议总是超额订阅，并已收到 来自之前参与者的高评级。

An international conference on Calcium and Cell Function will be held July 5-10, 1998, at Cooper Mountain Resort, Colorado. This conference will be held under the auspices of the Federation of the American Societies of Experimental Biology (FASEB). The conference will focus on the biochemistry, molecular biology, structure/function, and physiology of calcium as an informational ion that affects virtually every primary biological activity. Our overall goal is to bring together a diverse group of scientists working on all phases of calcium and its role in cell function. Efforts were made to include women speakers; currently 10 out of 36 speakers are women. Several junior (i.e. untenured) investigators are also on the speaker list, and additional time will be set aside for short talks based on the best posters submitted. The format of this conference will be similar to that of previous FASEB Summer Research Conferences. The topics to be covered will be: calcium influx mechanisms and the internal stores, molecular biology of calcium sensing, and roles of calcium in protein phosphorylation and dephosphorylation, exo/endocytosis, gene expression, neuronal function, genetically tractable nonvertebrate systems, and pharmaceutical screening and clinical pathology. This in the major long-standing conference in North America that focuses entirely on calcium and covers the spectrum of calcium research rather than a single subdiscipline. Particular effort has been made to minimize overlap in topics and speakers with other calcium-related meetings such as the Gordon Conference on Calcium Signaling and the 1998 Society of General Physiologists meeting on Local Calcium Signaling; the present meeting places less emphasis on the description and mechanism of generation of calcium signals and much more emphasis on the consequences of such signals for cell biology, pathology, and therapy. The sessions on genetically tractable models and pharmaceutical screening are particularly unusual and timely because calcium indicators can now be introduced into cells and transgenic organisms by molecular genetic means alone, and because calcium effects have recently become the basis for several fast-growing biotechnology applications and companies. This conference is always oversubscribed and has received high ratings from previous participants.