2005 Bones & Teeth Gordon Conference

描述（由申请人提供）：戈登骨骼和牙齿研究会议起源于1954年，具有杰出的历史，是骨骼研究领域新思想的试验场，研究嗜钙激素及其与骨骼生物学的关系。骨骼和牙齿会议在其覆盖软骨、骨骼和牙齿的生理学和分子生物学新发展的广度和深度上是独一无二的。戈登研究会议的形式与几乎所有其他科学会议的不同之处在于，它为开放、自由和非正式的讨论提供了广泛的机会。参加人数限制在130人左右，参加者包括国际学术界和工业界的领军人物、青年研究者、博士后研究员和学生。戈登会议作为讨论最新研究进展的论坛取得成功，是由于其规模有限、地理位置偏僻和总体结构。2005年会议将集中讨论在过去两年中出现重要新发展的领域。会议内容包括：新的发展；骨细胞分化与功能的转录调控矿化组织中的干细胞；矿物质平衡与钙化；牙齿/颅面生物学;信号/细胞因子;破骨细胞和骨吸收;骨骼合成代谢剂。到目前为止，讨论的领导者和演讲者都是国际骨生物学家界最优秀的研究人员。主讲人是世界上最重要的法医科学家之一，他将讨论一个一定会引起与会者兴趣的外围话题：在法医学中使用基于dna的方法。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Gordon Research Conference on Bones and Teeth originated in 1954 and has a distinguished history as a proving ground for new ideas in the field of skeletal research and the study of calciotropic hormones and how they relate to bone biology. The Bones and Teeth Conference is unique in the breadth and depth of its coverage of new developments in the physiology and molecular biology of cartilage, bones, and teeth. The Gordon Research Conference format differs from virtually all other scientific meetings in providing an extensive opportunity for open, free, and informal discussion. The number of participants is limited to about 130, and attendees include international leaders in the field from both academic and industrial sector, young investigators, post-doctoral fellows and students. The success of the Gordon Conference as a forum for the discussion of state-of-the-art research advances is attributable to its limited size, geographical isolation and overall structure. The 2005 Conference will focus on areas in which important new developments have occurred within the past two years. It will include sessions on: new developments; transcriptional control of bone cell differentiation and function; stem cells in mineralized tissues; mineral homeostasis and calcification; teeth/craniofacial biology; signaling/cytokines; osteoclasts/bone resorption; and skeletal anabolic agents. The discussion leaders and speakers selected to date are among the finest investigators in the international community of bone biologists. The keynote address speaker is one of the world's foremost forensic scientists who will address a peripheral topic that is bound to capture the interest of participants: the use of DNA-based methodology in forensic medicine. The purpose of this proposal is to request funds to defray the costs of speakers' registration and subsistence. These funds, if granted, will aid immeasurably in allowing the Gordon Research Conference to fulfill its function to stimulate further creativity in bone, cartilage and tooth research.