FASEB Summer Research Conference on "The Biology and Chemistry of Vision"

描述：此申请是对美国实验生物学学会第12届两年一度的会议“视觉的生物学和化学”的部分支持，会议将于2007年6月16-21日在科罗拉多州的斯诺马斯村举行。自1985年成立以来，这一直是专注于光感受器生物学的主要会议之一。2007年会议的主要目标是强调我们在正常和疾病条件下对光感受器功能的了解的最新进展和现状。九个多学科平台会议和两个海报会议将涵盖细胞生物学、生物化学、生理学、生物物理学和视觉遗传学的最新进展，特别强调了解环境侮辱或基因突变如何导致视力丧失。会议的总体安排将围绕三大主题。第一个涉及视觉的分子细节，与视锥感光细胞、视觉色素循环和光转导有关的平台会议。第二个主题涉及基因和人类疾病，包括光感受器疾病的“基因治疗”的未来前景。第三个主题涉及理解产生和支持光感受器组织的细胞机制，并将包括关于后高尔基体贩运、节段间运输和细胞骨架组织的会议。这种会议形式非常适合将高级调查人员和受训人员聚集在一起，以便对数据和想法进行深入分析。本申请中申请的资金将用于支持旅行 以及为博士后和博士后实习生以及尚未建立自己的研究计划的入门级科学家支付的会议费。

DESCRIPTION: This application is for partial support for the 12th biennial Federation of American Societies of Experimental Biology (FASEB) conference on "The Biology and Chemistry of Vision" to be held June 16-21, 2007 in Snowmass Village, Colorado. Since its inception in 1985 this has been one of the premier meetings focused on photoreceptor biology. The major goal of the 2007 meeting is to highlight the recent advances and current state of our knowledge of photoreceptor function under both normal and diseased conditions. Nine multidisciplinary platform sessions and two poster sessions will cover the most recent advances in the cell biology, biochemistry, physiology, biophysics, and genetics of vision with particular emphasis on understanding how environmental insult or genetic mutation can lead to visual loss. The overall organization of the meeting will revolve around three broad themes. The first involves the molecular details of vision with platforms sessions on cone photoreceptors, the visual pigment cycle, and photo-transduction. The second theme relates to genes and human disease including the future prospects for "gene therapy" for photoreceptor disease. The third theme relates to understanding the cellular mechanisms that produce and support photoreceptor organization and will include sessions on post-Golgi trafficking, intersegmental transport, and cytoskeletal organization. The meeting format is ideal for bringing senior investigators together with trainees in a setting that permits in depth analysis of data and ideas. The funding requested in this application will be used to support travel and conference expenses for pre- and post-doctoral trainees, and entry level scientists that have not yet established their own research programs.