19th International Pigment Cell Conference - 2005

描述（由申请人提供）： 国际色素细胞学会联合会（IFPCS，最初为IPCS）成立于1941年，旨在支持世界各地研究正常和转化色素细胞以及相关色素性疾病的科学家和医生。美国国立卫生研究院的七个研究所现在有实验室积极研究从发育生物学到分化/功能到肿瘤转化的色素沉着。国际色素细胞会议（IPCC）每三年举行一次（从亚洲、欧洲和美洲轮流举行），通常吸引300-400份摘要和400-500名与会者。 第19届IPCC将于2005年9月18日至22日在弗吉尼亚州雷斯顿的凯悦酒店举行，主题是“关注人类猪流感疾病”。我们的组织和计划委员会几乎涵盖了该领域所有的研究学科，我们预计研讨会和/或并行会议将针对每个主要领域，按时间顺序呈现。早期研讨会将讨论发育主题（例如，先天性巨结肠综合征、瓦尔登堡综合征和花斑病），中期研讨会将重点关注分化（包括组成性色素沉着、赫尔曼斯基-普德拉克综合征、格里塞利综合征和眼皮肤白化病），后期研讨会将涵盖后期临床色素疾病（例如黑色素瘤、内维痣和帕金森病）。本次会议的目标是促进国际专家的讨论，并鼓励研究各种猪病的实验室之间的新合作。美国国立卫生研究院和华盛顿特区将吸引该领域的最大科学家，因为该地区的参与者来自美国国立卫生研究院，美国其他地区，以及来自欧洲和亚洲。 本提案的具体目标是：1）为受邀主旨演讲者（均为国际公认的科学家，其中许多人不是IFPCS成员）提供差旅费支持，2）为学生和初级教师参加本次会议提供部分差旅费支持，以及3）支付出版费用。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The International Federation of Pigment Cell Societies (IFPCS, originally IPCS) was established in 1941 to support scientists and physicians around the world who study normal and transformed pigment cells, and associated pigmentary diseases. Seven Institutes of the NIH now have laboratories actively studying pigmentation from developmental biology to differentiation/function to neoplastic transformation. International Pigment Cell Conferences (IPCC) have been held every 3 years (rotating from Asia, Europe and the Americas); they typically attract 300-400 abstracts and from 400-500 attendees. The 19th IPCC will be held at the Hyatt Regency hotel in Reston, VA on Sept 18-22, 2005 with the theme 'A Focus on Human Pigmentary Diseases". Our Organizing and Program Committees span virtually all disciplines of study in the field and we anticipate a Symposium and/or Concurrent Session directed to each major area, presented in a temporal sequence. Early Symposia will address Developmental topics (e.g. Hirschsprung syndrome, Waardenburg syndrome and piebaldism), middle Symposia will focus on Differentiation (including constitutive pigmentation, Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome, Griscelli syndrome and oculocutaneous albinism) and later Symposia will cover later clinical pigmentary diseases (such as Melanoma, Naevi and Parkinson's disease). The Goals of this Conference are to foster discussions of international experts and to encourage new collaborations between laboratories studying various pigmentary diseases. NIH and the Washington DC area will attract a maximum of scientists in the field due to the accessibility of this area to participants from NIH, the rest of the US, as well as from Europe and from Asia. The Specific Aims of this proposal are: 1) to provide travel support for Invited Keynote Lecturers (all are internationally recognized scientists, many not being members of the IFPCS), 2) to provide partial travel support to students and junior faculty to attend this meeting, and 3) to pay for publication expenses.