Testis Workshop

描述（由申请人提供）：本提案的目的是支持年轻研究人员参加第xviii届睾丸雄性生殖功能基因组学研讨会。该研讨会将于2003年3月26日至29日在亚利桑那州凤凰城的喜来登新月酒店举行，就在美国男科学会年会之前。青年研究人员主要是指获得博士学位五年内的研究人员（主要是博士后和住院医师培训生），但研究生也将被考虑获奖。睾丸研讨会是一个由研究者发起的会议，最初成立于1972年。研讨会有从男性生殖领域内外招募顶尖专家的传统，他们会做最先进的演讲，为我们的科学互动提供信息和交叉施肥。该形式旨在通过一系列广泛讨论的会谈以及两次海报会议提供新知识。获奖者将在海报环节展示研究数据。2003年睾丸研讨会的主题是“男性生殖的功能基因组学”。本主题基于一种新兴的认识，即功能基因组学的丰富方法将为睾丸发育和功能的机制带来新的认识，增强我们对男性生殖功能的了解，并最终转化为临床诊断和方法。该计划将突出发现与睾丸、生殖细胞和男性生殖有关的发育和生理过程中的基因功能的策略的价值。组织者的目标是，参加会议的年轻研究人员将受到智力上的刺激，并鼓励他们在这一对人类生殖健康如此重要的领域的研究前沿从事自己的职业。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The objective of this proposal is to support participation of young investigators at the XVIIth Testis Workshop on Functional Genomics of Male Reproduction. This will be held March 26-29, 2003 at the Sheraton Crescent Hotel in Phoenix, Arizona, directly preceding the American Society for Andrology (ASA) annual meeting. Young investigators are defined primarily as those within five years of receipt of the Ph.D. degree (principally postdoctoral and medical residency trainees), but graduate students will also be considered for awards. The Testis Workshop is an investigator-initiated meeting, originally established in 1972. The Workshop has a tradition of recruiting top experts from both within and outside the area of male reproduction to give state-of-the-art presentations to both inform and cross-fertilize our scientific interactions. The format is geared to providing new knowledge in a series of talks with extensive discussion as well as in two poster sessions. Awardees will be presenting research data in the poster session. The theme for the 2003 Testis Workshop will be "functional genomics of male reproduction." This theme is based on the emerging understanding that the rich approaches of functional genomics will bring new understanding to mechanisms underlying testis development and function, enhance our unfolding knowledge of male reproductive function and ultimately translate to clinical diagnostics and approaches. The program will highlight the value of strategies that discover gene function in developmental and physiological processes relevant to the testis, the germ cell and male reproduction in general. It is the aim of the organizers that the young investigators participating in the conference will be stimulated intellectually and encouraged to pursue their careers at the forefront of research in this area so important to human reproductive health.