Molecular Control of Adipogenesis and Obesity

描述（由申请人提供）： 本次会议的目的是汇集一组脂肪细胞形成和功能的分子控制领域的国际专家，讨论对抗肥胖和相关疾病的策略。该会议将与“糖尿病：分子信号传导，基因和治疗”同时举行，因此，将涵盖与当今肥胖和2型糖尿病流行有关的许多重要主题。在过去的几年中，该会议吸引了来自各种多学科背景的约300-400名与会者，包括学术界，临床专业人员和私营部门（制药和生物技术）。发言人已经选定，并将继续根据他们的专长、兴趣和我们在本次会议上充分代表妇女和少数群体的愿望选定。我们还打算让年轻的调查人员有机会在平台上展示他们的数据，除了邀请一些著名发言人的标准名单。将有10个主要的科学会议（5个将与糖尿病会议联合会议），每个会议有3-4个约30分钟的特邀演讲（20+10讨论）。下午还将举行两次额外的会议，称为“热点话题”，其中将包含从摘要中选择的4-5个简短的演讲。包括这些会谈的目的是让年轻的研究人员有机会交流他们最新的“热门”数据，本申请中要求的资金将有助于支付这些年轻科学家参加会议的费用。在为此目的留出的充分讨论时间内，将界定和讨论所提出的每个领域内的争议、不确定和一致的议题。该会议将为来自不同背景的科学家之间的互动提供一个独特的机会，他们有重叠的兴趣，它将促进参与者之间的合作研究工作，并有助于确定和设定脂肪形成和肥胖领域研究的未来目标。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The aim of this conference is to bring together a group of international experts in the field of molecular control of adipocyte formation and function to discuss strategies to combat obesity and related disorders. The conference will occur simultaneously with "Diabetes Mellitus: Molecular Signaling, Genes and Therapeutics" and, consequently, will cover many important topics relating to the present day epidemic of obesity and type 2 diabetes. In past years, this meeting has attracted approximately 300-400 conferees from a variety of multidisciplinary backgrounds including academia, clinical professionals and the private sector (pharmaceutical and biotechnology). Speakers have been chosen and will continue to be selected on the basis of their expertise, interests and our desire to adequately represent women and minorities at this conference. It is also our intention to give young investigators the opportunity to present their data on the platform, in addition to inviting some of the standard list of prominent speakers. There will be 10 major scientific sessions (5 will be joint sessions with the Diabetes meeting), each with 3-4 invited talks of ca 30 mins (20+10 discussion). There will also be two additional sessions held in the afternoon referred to as "Hot Topics" which will contain 4-5 short talks selected from the abstracts. The goal of including these talks is to give young investigators the opportunity to communicate their latest "hot" data, and the funds requested in this application will help defray the costs of these young scientists to attend the meeting. The topics of controversy, uncertainty and agreement within each of the areas presented will be defined and discussed in the ample discussion periods set aside for this purpose. The conference will provide a unique opportunity for interaction between scientists from different backgrounds who have overlapping interests, and it will stimulate collaborative research efforts among partcipants, as well as help to identify and set future goals for research in the area of adipogenesis and obesity.