GORDEON CONFERENCE ON FERTILIZATION AND EGG ACTIVATION

第十二届戈登施肥与促进发展研究会议将提供一个论坛，介绍和讨论这一令人兴奋、迅速发展的领域的新发展和新思想。这次会议将于1997年7月25日至7月30日在新罕布什尔州普利茅斯的Holderness学校举行。自1974年以来，该会议每两年举行一次，今年将是会议的五周年纪念。这是唯一的戈登研究会议，关注雄性和雌性配子在受精和激活受精卵开始胚胎形成过程的重要过程中的相互作用。它为在该领域工作的生物化学家、细胞生物学家、分子生物学家、生理学家、遗传学家和生物物理学家提供了一个互动的场所。这次会议在促进不同经验和资历之间的合作以及在美国与欧洲、日本、澳大利亚和拉丁美洲的研究实验室之间的合作方面取得了非凡的成功。这些合作产生了许多丰硕的成果。会议将按照戈登研究会议的形式分为九场会议。其中七个会议将有固定的发言人。1)精子与透明带的相互作用；2)精子获能与顶体反应；3)受精的遗传途径；4)精卵质膜分子的结合与融合；5)卵子活化和胚胎发育的精子来源成分；6)卵子成熟和受精后的细胞周期事件；7)卵子激活的早期事件。八场会议将是一个特别的会议，从海报和/或最近的突发话题中选择演讲，特别以初级科学家为特色，包括博士后讲述者和学生。此外，我们将在周二晚上的会议上有一位重要发言人。

The Twelfth Gordon Research Conference on Fertilization and the Activation of Development will provide a forum for presentation and discussion of new developments and ideas in this exciting, rapidly advancing field. This meeting will be held at the Holderness School, Plymouth, New Hampshire, July 25-July 30, 1997. This conference has been held every two years since 1974 and this will be the Silver Anniversary of the conference. It is the only Gordon Research Conference concerned with the interaction of the male and the female gametes in the vital process of fertilization and activation of the fertilized egg to begin the process of embryo formation. It provides a venue for the interaction of biochemists, cell biologists, molecular biologists, physiologists, geneticists and biophysicists working in the field. This conference has been singularly successful in fostering collaborations between widely disparate experience and seniority and between research laboratories in this country and in Europe, Japan, Australia and Latin America. These collaborations have born many fruitful results. There will be nine sessions in the conference, following the Gordon Research Conference format.. Seven of the sessions will have regular schedule speakers. 1) Sperm-zona pellucida Interactions; 2) Sperm capacitations and the acrosome reaction; 3) Genetic approaches to fertilization; 4) Molecules of sperm-egg plasma membrane binding and fusion; 5) Sperm-derived components of egg activation and embryo development; 6) Cell cycle events during egg maturation and after fertilization; 7) Early events of egg activation. An eight session will be a special session with talks chosen from posters and/or late breaking topics that will particularly feature junior scientists, including postdoctoral tellers and students. In addition we will have a key note speaker for the Tuesday evening session.