Society for Research on Biological Rhythms Meeting

描述(申请人提供)：生物节律研究学会(SRBR)将于2006年5月21-25日在佛罗里达州德斯汀的桑德斯汀度假村举行。本次会议的项目主席是来自弗吉尼亚大学生物系和生物计时中心的卡拉·B·格林。这次会议将从生化/分子和遗传分析到整个生物体的行为和生理学，包括人类临床研究，广泛地探讨与昼夜生物学有关的主题。这一广泛的主题表明，这一领域本质上是非常多学科的。该方案包括各种形式的演讲，包括邀请演讲者参加的大型研讨会、根据提交的摘要编排的小型幻灯片会议和海报会议，以及探索该领域特定热点领域的一些讲习班。这次会议的演讲者和讨论负责人的选择是为了让许多领域都有很好的代表性，包括学术研究人员(包括来自少数族裔机构的研究人员)、政府科学家和工业研究人员。此外，我们有大量的女性代表(包括项目主席和项目委员会成员)，并努力包括来自欧洲、拉丁美洲和亚洲的科学家，以及来自美国的科学家。尽管这一会议每两年举行一次，但这一领域的发展如此之快，以至于每一次会议都与以往的会议有很大的不同。2006年会议的一个目标是从外部领域引进一些优秀的科学家，以增加时钟研究的跨学科方面。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Society for Research on Biological Rhythms (SRBR) will be held at Sandestin Resort in Destin, Florida from May 21-25, 2006. The Program Chair of this conference is Carla B. Green from the Department of Biology and the Center for Biological Timing at the University of Virginia. This conference will explore topics related to circadian biology on a broad scale ranging from biochemical/molecular and genetic analyses to whole organism behavior and physiology, including human clinical studies. This broad range of topics is indicative of this field, which is by its nature very multi-disciplinary. The program includes presentations in a variety of formats, including large symposia with invited speakers, small slide sessions and poster sessions programmed from the submitted abstracts and a number of workshops exploring specific hot areas of the field. The speakers and discussion leaders for this conference have been chosen so that many areas will be well represented, including academic researchers (including those from minority institutions), government scientists, and industrial researchers. In addition, we have a large representation of women (including the Program Chair, and members of the program committee) and have made an effort to include scientists from Europe, Latin America and Asia in addition to those from the US. Although this meeting is held every two years, the field is moving so rapidly that each meeting is a significant departure from previous meetings. A goal of the 2006 meeting is to bring in a number of excellent scientists from outside fields to increase the inter-disciplinary aspects of clock studies.