11th Annual SFRBM Meeting

描述(由申请人提供)：我们请求为自由基生物学和医学会(SFRBM；前身为氧气学会)于2004年11月17-21日在美属维尔京群岛圣托马斯万豪法式珊瑚礁和晨星度假村举行的第11届年会提供部分资金。基金将支持受邀演讲者的旅费、住宿费和注册费，以便SFRBM运营预算和年度会议收入的资金可以用于支持学生、研究员和其他研究人员的差旅、注册和参与。在会议之前，将举行一个关于蛋白质组学、代谢组学和氧化应激基因组学的研讨会，该研讨会将由该领域的专家向年轻的和其他感兴趣的研究人员提供讲座，介绍应用于系统生物学的生物大分子氧化损伤和氧化还原调节的概念、技术和解释。随后，为期四天的会议将开始，上午将举行应邀的全体讲座，并在下午/晚上的三个平行会议上口头介绍选定的摘要。四个全体会议的主题是：氧化还原稳态和免疫功能；脂质氧化的生物和病理后果；癌症和衰老中对核酸的氧化损伤；以及硫醇转换和氧化还原细胞信号的分子机制。作为本届年会的一个新特色，大会最后一天的前两场全体讲座将由SFRBM终身成就奖和SFRBM发现奖的获奖者发表。在上午的全体讲座之前，将举行日出自由基学校，这是SFRBM年会的一个鲜明特点，该领域的资深科学家向学生、研究员和其他感兴趣的研究人员讲解自由基化学和生物学的基本方面。下午/晚上的讲座将从学会会员和非会员提交的摘要中挑选出来。每一次下午/晚上的会议将由选定的外地青年调查员主持。未被选为口头报告的摘要将在三个为期一天的海报会议中公布。海报将在晚上开放供讨论。总体而言，SFRBM‘04将讨论与活性氧和氮在生物学和医学中扮演的不同角色相关的广泛研究主题。所提供的研究数据将对我们理解衰老以及癌症、糖尿病、炎症和免疫以及心血管疾病产生重大影响，并将为抗氧化剂和疗法帮助预防或治疗这些疾病的机制提供新的见解。会议为交流自由基化学、生物学和医学的最新基础和应用研究成果提供了一个论坛，并为该领域的科学家提供了一个联网和安排新合作的机会。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): We request partial funding for the 11 Annual Meeting of the Society for Free Radical Biology and Medicine (SFRBM; formerly The Oxygen Society) to be held November 17-21, 2004 at the Marriott Frenchman's Reef and Morningstar Resort, St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands. Funds will support travel, lodging, and registration fees of invited speakers so that funds from the SFRBM operating budget and annual meeting income can be directed toward supporting the travel, registration, and participation of students, fellows, and other investigators. The meeting will be preceded by a workshop on Proteomics, Metabonomics, and Genomics of Oxidative Stress, which will provide lectures by experts in the field to young and other interested investigators on the concepts, techniques, and interpretations applied to systems biology of oxidative damage to, and redox regulation of, biological macromolecules. The body of the four-day meeting will then begin, featuring invited plenary lectures in the morning and oral presentations of selected abstracts in three parallel afternoon/evening sessions. The themes of the four plenary sessions are: Redox Homeostasis and Immune Function; Biological and Pathological Consequences of Lipid Oxidation; Oxidative Damage to Nucleic Acids in Cancer and Aging; and Thiol Switching and Molecular Mechanisms of Redox Cell Signaling. As a new feature of this Annual Meeting, the first two plenary lectures on the final day of the conference will be delivered by the recipients of the SFRBM Lifetime Achievement Award and SFRBM Discovery Award. Before the plenary lectures in the morning, the Sunrise Free Radical School will be held, a distinct characteristic of the SFRBM Annual Meetings, featuring senior scientists in the field addressing fundamental aspects of free radical chemistry and biology to an audience of students, fellows, and other interested investigators. The lectures delivered in the afternoon/evening sessions will be selected from abstracts submitted by Society members and non-members at large. Each afternoon/evening session will be chaired by selected young investigators in the field. Abstracts not selected for oral presentation will be presented in three one-day poster sessions. The posters will be open for discussion in the evenings. Overall, SFRBM '04 will address a broad range of research topics related to the diverse roles that reactive oxygen and nitrogen species play in biology and medicine. Research data presented will have a significant impact on our understanding of aging as well as cancer, diabetes, inflammation and immunity, and cardiovascular diseases, and will provide new insights into mechanisms by which antioxidants and therapeutics can be used to help prevent or treat these conditions. The conference provides a forum for exchange of the most recent basic and applied research results in free radical chemistry, biology, and medicine as well as an opportunity for scientists in the field to network and arrange for new collaborations.