2012 Ion Channels Gordon Research Conference

描述（由申请人提供）：本提案要求部分支持离子通道国际会议，作为戈登研究会议系列的一部分，将于2012年7月8日至13日在马萨诸塞州南哈德利的Mount Holyoke学院举行。会议的长远目标是增加我们对离子通道的基本结构、功能和生理作用以及它们在疾病中的功能障碍的理解。本次会议的具体目的是召集40位代表离子通道研究关键领域的演讲者和讨论领袖，最多180名与会者在一个相对僻静的环境中进行为期五天的会议。该计划将举行九次会议，广泛讨论离子通道机制在人类健康和疾病中的当前问题。此外，四次海报会议将允许所有参与者就这些主题贡献自己的作品。这一应用的意义在于，离子通道戈登研究会议是国际离子通道生物学家社区中丰富思想和研究的既定会议的关键组成部分。事实上，离子通道GRC的小规模和密集的讨论对于促进参与者之间的新想法和新方向具有独特的重要性。这一应用程序与健康的关系是，讨论将确定在影响人类发展和健康的各种领域中需要实验解决的问题。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This proposal requests partial support for an internationally attended meeting on Ion Channels, as part of the Gordon Research Conference series, to be held at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts, July 8 - 13, 2012. The broad and long-term goal of the conference is to increase our understanding of the fundamental structure, function and physiological roles of ion channels as well as their dysfunction in disease. The specific aims of this meeting will be to convene 40 speakers and discussion leaders that represent critical areas of ion channel research with a maximum total of 180 participants for a five- day meeting in a relatively secluded setting. The program will have nine sessions that broadly address current issues in ion channel mechanisms in human health and disease. In addition, four poster sessions will permit all participants to contribute their wor to these topics. The significance of this application is that the Ion Channels Gordon Research Conference is a critical component of the established meetings that fertilize ideas and research in the international community of ion channel biologists. Indeed, the small size and intensive discussions engendered by the Ion Channels GRC make it uniquely important for the catalysis of new ideas and directions among the participants. The health relatedness of this application is that the discussions will define questions that require experimental resolution in a wide variety o areas that affect human development and health.