2006 American Society for Matrix Biology Meeting

描述(由申请者提供)：我们请求为美国基质生物学学会(ASMB)第三届全国会议提供部分资金，该会议将于2006年11月1-4日在田纳西州纳什维尔的纳什维尔会议中心举行。ASMB第三次会议是在2004年11月在圣地亚哥举行的第二次会议的成功基础上举行的，来自不同领域、学术界和公司的400多名与会者花了4天的时间就基质生物学这一广泛的主题进行了激烈的讨论和意见交流。我们打算扩大这一成功，希望吸引至少500名参与者。为此，我们组织了一次全体会议，由来自不同领域的杰出科学家组成，这些领域直接或间接地影响着基质生物学。会议将由范德比尔特大学杰出教职员工、范德比尔特癌症中心创始人哈罗德·L·摩西博士发表主旨演讲。他为理解基质和肿瘤生物学中的一种关键信号分子--转化生长因子--做出了无数贡献。接下来的3天将包括5场全体会议和5组3场并行会议，集中讨论以下综合主题：信号与发育、遗传病、组织工程、微生物与基质、生物力学反应、弹性组织、干细胞、发育、细胞外基质组装、糖共轭化合物、纤维化、蛋白多糖、金属蛋白酶、基质受体、新生血管、发病机制、质谱学应用、骨、基底膜和基质调节剂。会议的目的是确保来自不同领域的发言者参加同一次会议，并促进他们的专门知识的交流。同时举行的会议将由一名特邀演讲者主持，全体会议和同时举行的会议都将包括从摘要提交中挑选出来的平台演讲。ASMB是从基质生物学发展而来的各种专业学科的独特会议。与大型社会会议不同，ASMB会议有一个主导主题，与研讨会不同，它努力涵盖该主题的所有排列，包括新出现的问题、未准备好进入黄金时间的主题和令人兴奋的新研究领域。特别是这次会议将强调最先进的技术，这些技术可以回答与ECM生物学和病理学相关的问题，这些问题是现有方法无法解决的。总而言之，全国ASMB会议是感兴趣的科学家在一个集中的论坛上欣赏矩阵生物学这一广泛领域的现状的唯一机会，这是基本上不可能通过任何其他方式聚集在一起的。这不仅适用于现有的研究人员，也适用于年轻的科学家和学生，包括少数族裔，我们非常重视他们的参与。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): We request partial funding for the 3rd National Meeting of the American Society for Matrix Biology (ASMB), to be held at the Nashville Convention Center, Nashville, TN on November 1-4 2006. The 3rd ASMB meeting builds on the success of the 2nd one, held in San Diego in November 2004, in which over 400 participants from diverse fields, in academia as well as companies, spent 4 days of intense discussion and exchange of ideas on the broad topic of matrix biology. We intend to expand on that success, hoping to attract at least 500 participants. To this end we have assembled a plenary program comprised of distinguished scientists from diverse areas that impinge directly or indirectly on matrix biology. The meeting will open with a Keynote Address by Dr. Harold L. Moses, a distinguished member of the Vanderbilt University faculty and founder of the Vanderbilt Cancer Center. He has made innumerable contributions to the understanding of a key signal molecule in matrix and tumor biology, transforming growth factor beta. The following 3 days will consist of 5 Plenary Sessions and 5 sets of 3 Concurrent Sessions, focused on the following integrated topics: Signaling and Development, Genetic Diseases, Tissue Engineering, Microbes and Matrix, Biomechanical Responses, Elastic Tissue, Stem Cells, Development, ECM Assembly, Glycoconjugates, Fibrosis, Proteoglycans, Metalloproteinases, Matrix Receptors, Neovascularization, Pathogenesis, Mass Spectrometry Applications, Bone, Basement Membranes, and Matrix Modulators. Sessions are designed to ensure that speakers from diverse fields will participate in the same session and promote cross- fertilization of their special knowledge. Concurrent Sessions will be moderated by an invited speaker, and both Plenary and Concurrent sessions will include platform presentations selected from abstract submissions The ASMB is a unique convocation of the diverse, specialized disciplines that have developed out of matrix biology. Unlike large society meetings, the ASMB meeting has a dominant theme, and unlike symposia it strives to encompass all permutations on this theme, including emerging issues, not-ready-for-prime-time topics, and exciting new areas of research. In particular this meeting will emphasize state of the art technologies that can answer questions pertinent to ECM biology and pathology that could not be tackled with existing methodologies. In summary, the National ASMB meeting is an exclusive opportunity for interested scientists to appreciate in a concentrated forum, the current status of a broad field, matrix biology, which would be essentially impossible to gather any other way. This is true not only for established investigators but also for young scientists and students, including minorities, on whose participation we place great emphasis.