XIX North American Testis Workshop

描述(申请人提供)：第十一届北美睾丸研讨会将于4月18日至21日在佛罗里达州坦帕市举行。会议的地点将是凯悦酒店，会议将在美国男科学会(ASA)的赞助下第三次举行。第一次睾丸研讨会于1972年举行，自那时以来，它已经成为一个由研究人员发起的会议，聚集了睾丸生物学领域的主要研究人员。在过去的34年里，研讨会的出席人数有所增加，现在通常吸引了250到300人参加。讲习班越来越多地被视为学员的重要会议，研究生和博士后--包括医学博士和博士后--在与会者中占很大比例，这就是明证。睾丸研讨会促进了充满活力的沟通和科学交流，这为与同行合作创造了极好的机会，并最终确保了睾丸生物学领域在未来继续向前发展。研讨会还吸引了来自美国以外的科学家作为项目组织者、与会者和演讲者。这个会议有一个长期的传统，就是从其他科学领域招募几位演讲者，在男性生殖的直接范围之外，以促进创造性的方法来解决科学问题。跨学科对话已成为讲习班的主要吸引力之一。虽然2007年研讨会的主题是“染色体结构和基因表达”，但它分为五个部分：性染色体和基因组学；生殖系干细胞；基因表达调控；睾丸体细胞；和睾丸病理学。在为期两天的会议中，每一天都将有三个15分钟的口头报告，这些报告将从提交给研讨会的摘要中挑选出来。该组件首次加入2003年的研讨会，旨在为该计划带来突破性发展的报告。还安排了两次海报会议，组委会成员将对其进行审查。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The XIXth North American Testes Workshop will be held from April 18th - 21st in Tampa, Florida. The venue will be the Hyatt Regency and the meeting will occur for the third time under sponsorship of the American Society of Andrology (ASA). The first Testes Workshop was held in 1972 and since then it has become established as an investigator-initiated meeting that brings together leading investigators in testes biology. Over the past thirty-four years, attendance of the Workshop has grown and now typically attracts 250 to 300 attendees. Increasingly, the Workshop is viewed as an essential conference for trainees as evidenced by the fact that postgraduate students and postdocs - both M.D.s and Ph.D.s - make up a significant portion of the attendees. The Testes Workshop fosters vibrant communication and scientific exchange, which creates excellent opportunities for collaboration with peers and ultimately career and scientific growth ensuring that the field of testes biology will continue to advance in the future. The Workshop also attracts scientists from outside the United States as program organizers, attendees and speakers. This meeting has a long-standing tradition of recruiting several speakers from other areas of science, outside the immediate confines of male reproduction, to facilitate creative approaches to scientific problem solving. The cross-disciplinary dialogues have become one of the Workshop's main attractions. While the 2007 Workshop has the broad theme of "Chromosome structure and gene expression," it has been organized into five sessions: Sex chromosomes and genomics; Germ-line stem cells; Regulation of gene expression; Testicular somatic cells; and Testicular pathologies. Each of the two full days of the meeting will have three, 15-minute oral presentations that will be selected from abstracts submitted for presentation at the Workshop. This component was added for the first time to the 2003 Workshop, and is designed to bring reports on breaking developments to the program. Two poster sessions are also scheduled, which will be reviewed by members of the Organizing Committee.