Gordon Conf. on Cellular and Molecular Fungal Biology

描述（由申请人提供）：申请资助戈登细胞和分子真菌生物学研究会议，会议将于2004年6月20日至25日在新罕布什尔州普利茅斯的Holderness学校举行。会议的联合主席是N. Louise Glass博士（伯克利）和James W. Kronstad博士（不列颠哥伦比亚省），副联合主席是Aaron P. Mitchell博士（哥伦比亚）和Anne E. Osbourne博士（塞恩斯伯里实验室）。会议（原细胞和分子真菌学）提供了一个论坛，介绍真菌研究的最新进展，特别强调丝状真菌和病原真菌。参与者包括来自学术界和工业界的国际领先科学家以及研究生，博士后研究员和初级教师。这些科学家聚集在Holderness学校，这是一个杰出的科学互动场所，展示最新的研究成果并讨论未来的研究方向。会议的目标是促进科学交流、合作和发展新的研究机会。这在真菌生物学中尤其重要，因为目前正在研究大量不同的物种，以及最近可用的基因组资源的爆炸。这次会议是独一无二的，因为它汇集了来自不同领域的科学家，这些科学家通常不会在一个科学场所进行互动。例如，该计划包括研究单细胞酵母及其亲戚的研究人员以及丝状真菌研究人员。此外，它还包括研究植物真菌病原体和人类病原体的科学家。在细菌领域的工作已经显示了与植物和人类细菌病原体之间的发病机制相关的共同机制；发病机制所需的方面也被认为在人类和植物真菌病原体中是保守的。科学计划将包括以下主题：进化和基因组学，代谢和基因调控，发育，表观遗传学，发病机制和细胞生物学以及信号转导。此外，最新的科学发现将通过从提交的海报摘要中选择的口头报告包括在每次会议中。总之，会议提供了一个独特的机会来检查真菌生物学的广度在一个小型会议形式，鼓励与会者之间的深入讨论。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Funding is requested to support the Gordon Research Conference on Cellular and Molecular Fungal Biology to be held from June 20 to June 25, 2004 at the Holderness School in Plymouth, New Hampshire. The co-chairs for the conference are Dr. N. Louise Glass (Berkeley) and Dr. James W. Kronstad (British Columbia) and the vice co-chairs are Dr. Aaron P. Mitchell (Columbia) and Dr. Anne E. Osbourne (Sainsbury Laboratory). The conference (formerly Cellular and Molecular Mycology) provides a forum for presentation of the latest advances in fungal research with a particular emphasis on filamentous and pathogenic fungi. Participants include leading international scientists from academia and industry as well as graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and junior faculty. These scientists gather at Holderness School, an outstanding venue for scientific interaction, to present the latest research findings and to discuss future research directions. The goal of the conference is to foster scientific exchange, collaboration and the development of new research opportunities. This is particularly important in fungal biology because of the large number of different species currently being studied and the explosion of genomic resources that have recently become available. This meeting is unique because it brings together scientists from diverse fields that may not normally interact in a single scientific venue. For example, the program includes researchers working on unicellular yeasts and their relatives as well as filamentous fungal researchers. In addition, it includes scientists that work on fungal plant pathogens and well as human pathogens. Work in the bacterial field has shown common mechanisms associated with pathogenesis among plant and human bacterial pathogens; aspects required for pathogenesis are also thought to be conserved among human and plant fungal pathogens. The scientific program will include the following topics: evolution and genomics, metabolism and gene regulation, development, epigenetics, pathogenesis and cell biology and signal transduction. In addition, late-breaking scientific discoveries will be included in every session through oral presentations selected from submitted poster abstracts. In summary, the conference provides a unique opportunity to examine the breadth of fungal biology in a small meeting format that encourages in-depth discussion among the attendees.