Student Travel to the Environmental Mutagen Society

描述（由申请人提供） 本提案的目的是请求提供会议支助资金，向研究生提供旅费赠款，以便利他们出席环境诱变剂学会第35届年会。 会议将于2004年10月2日至6日在宾夕法尼亚州匹兹堡市的希尔顿匹兹堡酒店举行。 环境诱变剂协会（EMS）是促进诱变基本机制研究以及遗传毒理学领域中这一知识应用的主要科学协会，科学兴趣的核心领域包括：DNA损伤剂的暴露、检测和代谢，对DNA损伤的反应（DNA修复和重组，基因表达的变化，细胞周期效应），突变机制（自发和与接触有关的）、DNA技术、分子流行病学、人类健康影响（发育、癌症、衰老、遗传疾病）、环境诱变和应用：测试、监管问题和风险评估。 年会将包括专题讨论会，海报和平台会议以及NIH感兴趣的其他活动，包括：RNA生物学，因为它与环境有关;基因组学和真核生物对环境的适应;端粒和基因组稳定性;环境暴露的系统生物学方法; DNA解旋酶;影响DNA修复和突变的染色质和蛋白质修饰;重组和基因组稳定性的维持;人类在癌症易感性、生殖和干细胞诱变方面的变异;以及DNA修复中间体的诱变作用。 还计划了几项活动，使学生融入会议和EMS的活动。 学生成就奖将颁发给选定的学生，他们提交了一份在会议上发表的摘要。 选择获奖者的主要标准将是摘要的科学质量，导师的推荐信以及摘要与EMS科学利益的相关性。 奖项将不考虑性别，种族，民族或残疾。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant) The purpose of this proposal is to request conference support funds to award travel grants to graduate students to facilitate their attendance at the 35th annual meeting of the Environmental Mutagen Society. The meeting will be held from October 2-6, 2004 at the Hilton Pittsburgh Hotel in/Pittsburgh, PA. The Environmental Mutagen Society (EMS) is the primary scientific society fostering research on the basic mechanisms of mutagenesis as well as on the application of this knowledge in the field of genetic toxicology, Core areas of scientific interest include: Exposure, detection and metabolism of DNA damaging agents, responses to DNA damage (DNA repair and recombination, changes in gene expression, cell cycle effects), mutational mechanisms (spontaneous and exposure related), DNA technologies, Molecular epidemiology, human health effects (developmental, cancer, aging, genetic disease), environmental mutagenesis and applications: testing, regulatory issues and risk assessment. The annual meeting will include symposia, poster and platform sessions and other activities of interest to the NIH including: RNA biology as it relates to the environment; genomics and eukaryotic adaptations to the environment; telomeres and genomic stability; systems biology approaches to environmental exposures; DNA helicases; chromatin and protein modifications that influence DNA repair and mutation; recombination and the maintenance of genomic stability; human variation in cancer susceptibility, germ and stem cell mutagenesis; and mutagenic effects of DNA repair intermediates. Several activities to integrate students into the activities at the meeting and the EMS are also planned. Student achievement awards will be made to selected students who submit an abstract for a presentation to be made at the meeting. Primary criteria for selection of awardees will be the scientific quality of the abstract, a letter of recommendation from the mentor and the relevance of the abstract to the scientific interests of the EMS. Awards will be made without regard to gender, race, ethnicity or disability.