SALK CONFERENCE ON EUKARYOTIC DNA REPLICATION

关于真核DNA复制的第一次索尔克会议将于2000年9月6日至10日在加利福尼亚州拉霍亚的索尔克研究所举行。会议将为学生、博士后、教授和生物技术研究人员提供多达350个场所，供他们会面并讨论过去一年的新发现。由于其西海岸的位置，预计西海岸和太平洋实验室的参与将会增加。举办这次会议是为了满足这一领域迅速增加的活动所产生的关于这一专题的年度会议的需要。这一领域的进展继续对与人类健康有关的问题产生重大影响，包括癌症、衰老以及与发育、免疫系统和神经退化有关的无数疾病的病因、诊断和治疗。会议的基本主题将是考虑基因组的不稳定性，以鼓励对细胞复制和修复系统之间的联系有更深的了解。杰出的研究人员被邀请担任会议主席，专门讨论起源结构、起始、聚合酶、DNA修复、检查点和基因组完整性、端粒、染色质结构和细胞器复制。这些教席将深入介绍每个领域中最重要的概念和尚未解决的问题。所有其他的演讲和与会者将从摘要中挑选，以确保展示研究的前沿，并鼓励年轻研究人员的积极参与。会议将由最先进的索尔克会议中心经验丰富的工作人员管理。科学组织者是索尔克研究所的苏珊·福斯堡、索尔克研究所的杰弗里·瓦尔和加利福尼亚州研究所的朱迪思·坎贝尔。这次会议在时间和地理上都是对目前在奇数年在冷泉港举行的两年一度的DNA复制会议的补充。总而言之，这次会议旨在显著扩大对真核DNA复制所面临的最热门问题的讨论。特别是，西海岸会场应该为那些由于东海岸会议费用较高而无法参加此类会议的学生和博士后提供额外的选择。此外，预计将有大量日本和亚洲研究人员出席这次太平洋海岸会议。我们预计，提出的主题和舒适的场地将鼓励新的研究人员进入这一重要领域，并为有经验的研究人员提供取得重大未来进展所需的新方法。

The first Salk Conference on Eukaryotic DNA Replication will be at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California, September 6-10, 2000. The conference will provide up to 350 places for students, postdocs, professors and biotechnology researchers to meet and discuss novel findings of the past year. Due to its West coast location, increased participation from West coast and Pacific labs is expected. The conference has been organized to fulfill the need for an annual conference on this topic generated by the rapidly increasing activity in this field. Advances in this area are continuing to impact significantly on issues related to human health, including the etiology, diagnosis and treatment of cancer, aging, and myriad diseases related to development, the immune system, and neural degeneration. The underlying theme of the meeting will be consideration of genomic instability, to encourage a deeper understanding of links between cellular replication and repair systems. Outstanding researchers have been invited to serve as chairs in sessions devoted to origin structure, Initiation, Polymerases, DNA Repair, Checkpoints and Genome Integrity, Telomeres, Chromatin Structure, and Organellar Replication. These chairs will provide in-depth introductions to the most important concepts and unresolved problems in each field. All other presentations and attendees will be chosen from abstracts to ensure that the forefront of research is presented and to encourage active participation of younger researchers. The meeting will be administered by the experienced staff of the state of the art Salk Conference Center. Scientific organizers are Susan Forsburg, Salk Institute; Geoffrey Wahl, Salk Institute, and Judith campbell, California Institute of California. This conference complements both temporally and geographically the current biennial DNA replication meeting held at Cold Spring Harbor in odd-numbered years. In summary, the meeting is designed to significantly broaden discussion of the most topical issues confronting eukaryotic DNA replication. In particular, the West Coast venue should provide an additional option for students and postdocs who have been unable to attend East Coast conferences due to the greater cost of such meetings. Furthermore, substantial attendance by Japanese and Asian researchers is expected at this Pacific Coast conference. We anticipate that the topics presented and comfortable venue will encourage new researchers to enter this important field, as well as provide experienced researchers with the new approaches needed to make significant future advances.