2005 Fertilization and Activation of Development Gordon Conference

描述(由申请人提供)：第15届戈登受精和发展激活研究会议将提供一个论坛，介绍和讨论这一令人兴奋、快速发展的领域的新发展和新想法。本次会议将于2005年7月17日至22日在新罕布夏州普利茅斯的霍尔德内斯学校举行。自1974年以来，该会议每两年举行一次。这是唯一一次戈登研究会议，涉及受精和激活受精卵开始胚胎形成过程的关键过程中雄配子和雌配子的相互作用。它为在该领域工作的生物化学家、细胞生物学家、分子生物学家、生理学家、遗传学家和生物物理学家提供了一个互动的场所。这次会议在促进来自这个国家、欧洲、日本、澳大利亚和拉丁美洲的不同经验和资历的科学家之间的合作方面取得了非凡的成功。这些合作取得了许多丰硕成果。会议将有9场会议，遵循戈登研究会议的形式。8场会议将集中于：1)受精和发育的生物信息学、基因组和蛋白质组方法；2)精子运动和趋化性；3)配子成熟；4)配子中的功能膜域；5)精子-卵子相互作用的分子方面；6)精子中的信号转导；7)卵子激活过程中的信号事件；8)早期发育过程中的基因激活。这些会议将包括预定的演讲者以及从海报和/或最新话题中挑选出来的简短演讲。特别重视初级科学家，包括博士后研究员和研究生。此外，我们将在周三晚上的会议上有一位主旨发言人。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The 15th Gordon Research Conference on Fertilization and the Activation of Development will provide a forum for presentation and discussion of new developments and ideas in this exciting, rapidly advancing field. This meeting will be held at the Holderness School, Plymouth, New Hampshire, July 17-22, 2005. This conference has been held every 2 years since 1974. It is the only Gordon Research Conference concerned with the interaction of the male and the female gametes in the vital process of fertilization and activation of the fertilized egg to begin the process of embryo formation. It provides a venue for the interaction of biochemists, cell biologists, molecular biologists, physiologists, geneticists and biophysicists working in the field. This conference has been singularly successful in fostering collaborations among scientists with widely disparate experience and seniority from this country, Europe, Japan, Australia and Latin America. These collaborations have borne many fruitful results. There will be 9 sessions in the conference that follow the Gordon Research Conference format. 8 sessions will focus on: 1) Bioinformatic, genomic, and proteomic approaches to fertilization and development; 2) Sperm motility and chemotaxis; 3) Gamete maturation; 4) Functional membrane domains in gametes; 5) Molecular aspects of sperm-egg interaction; 6) Signal transduction in sperm; 7) Signaling events during egg activation; 8) Gene activation during early development. These sessions will include both scheduled speakers as well as selected short talks chosen from posters and/ or late breaking topics. Particular emphasis has been placed on junior scientists, including postdoctoral fellows and graduate students. In addition, we will have a keynote speaker for the Wednesday evening session.