INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON GAP JUNCTION

计划在Asilomar召开一次关于缝隙连接的国际会议 会议中心，太平洋格罗夫，加利福尼亚州，6月9日至6月 1991年13日。会议的主要目标是促进互动 在采取不同方法研究GAP的研究人员中 交汇点。由于最近的发现，这次会议特别及时 在缝隙连接的分子生物学和一些 表达系统，包括成对的非洲爪哇卵母细胞和各种 转基因细胞，在其中可以研究定制的连接蛋白。 关于缝隙连接的作用也有相当多的正在进行的工作 特殊组织，特别是心脏、晶状体、胰腺、肝脏和子宫 论缝隙连接在肿瘤形成中的作用。会议将涵盖以下内容 GAP的表达系统和分子生物学 连接；电生理、调节和重建；间隙的作用 分化组织中的连接；缝隙的生物化学和免疫学 以及缝隙连接在发展中的作用。会有 三个海报会议和两个讨论会议。我们已经做了一个 初步选择了21位演讲者，其中15位已经联系并已 同意参与。组委会将最终选出一名 根据提交的摘要，共有33位发言者。这一行动方针 是在上一次GAP的组织会议上推荐的 在伊尔赛举行的联合会议，作为确保最新的 会议上提出了可能的材料。初步公告 会议期间，预计将接触到约400名对GAP感兴趣的调查人员 交界处，已被发送给参加任何一次 本系列的最后三次会议。这将是第一次 四年后在美国召开的涵盖GAP各个方面的国际会议 Junctions(最后一次是1987年在Asilomar)，并将特别努力 包括初级科学家、博士后和研究生。我们预计 参与者在130到160人之间。这比去年同期略有增加 出席过去会议的人数，并将允许出席更多 与以前的会议相比，这一群体的组成更加多样化。我们相信这个尺码 会议的规模将小到足以促进非正式互动，但规模却很大 足以让所有对缝隙连接感兴趣的人参加。这 会议将提供同样重要的最新技术和 这是本系列过去几次会议的特点。 我们希望将会议记录作为一本关于缝隙连接的特别卷出版。

An International Conference on Gap Junctions is planned for the Asilomar Conference Center, Pacific Grove, California, from June 9th through June 13th, 1991. The primary goal of the conference is to promote interaction among investigators taking different approaches to the study of gap junctions. This meeting is especially timely because of recent discoveries in the molecular biology of gap junctions and the development of a number of expression systems, including paired Xenopus oocytes and a variety of transfected cells, in which tailored junctional proteins can be studied. There is also considerable ongoing work on the role of gap junctions in particular tissues, especially heart, lens, pancreas, liver and uterus and on the role of gap junctions in tumor formation. The conference will cover the following topics: Expression Systems and Molecular Biology of Gap Junctions; Electrophysiology, Regulation and Reconstitution; Role of Gap Junctions in Differentiated Tissues; Biochemistry and Immunology of Gap Junctions; and the Role of Gap Junctions in Development. There will be three poster sessions, and two discussion sessions. We have made an initial selection of 21 speakers, 15 of whom have been contacted and have agreed to participate. The organizing committee will ultimately select a total of 33 speakers based on submitted abstracts. This course of action was recommended during an organizational meeting at the previous gap junction meeting in Irsee as a means of insuring that the most up to date possible material is presented at the meeting. A preliminary announcement of the meeting, expected to reach about 400 investigators interested in gap junctions, has been sent to all investigators who attended any one of the last three meetings in this series. The meeting will be the first international meeting in the US in four years covering all aspects of gap junctions (the last at Asilomar in 1987) and will make a special effort to include junior scientists, post docs and graduate students. We expect between 130 and 160 participants. This represents a slight increase over the number who attended past meetings and will allow attendance of a more diverse group than was possible at previous meetings. We believe this size of meeting will be small enough to promote informal interaction, but large enough to allow attendance by all who are interested in gap junctions. This meeting will provide the same essential airing of the latest techniques and discoveries which was characteristic of the past meetings in this series. We expect to publish the proceedings as a special volume on gap junctions.