FASEB SRC on Biology and Chemistry of Vision

描述（由申请人提供）：本申请是为了部分支持第15届两年一度的美国实验生物学学会联合会（FASEB）关于“视觉的生物学和化学”的夏季会议，该会议将于2009年6月9日至14日在科罗拉多的汽船泉举行。自1985年成立以来，这一直是主要和最成功的会议之一，专注于光感受器生物学。2013年会议的主要目标是突出在广泛和多样化的感光功能问题的最新进展。我们还希望通过尽一切努力吸引具有不同背景和兴趣的新人，特别是年轻科学家，他们将是下一代的命脉，将会议的规模扩大到尽可能接近160人（接近上限）。事实上，为了反映我们保持会议新鲜和活跃的愿望， 2013年的会议将是新的。将有九个平台会议和两个海报会议，有多个主题。第一，作为这些会议的第一次（1985年）的核心主题，是视杆细胞和视锥细胞中色素和类维生素A周转的分子和细胞细节，以及有关光转导机制的生理学和生物化学的最新消息。第二个是细胞生物学和光感受器的发展，这是过去几次会议的主题。第三个是全新的，是关于昼夜节律和代谢机制对光感受器功能的调节。第四次会议旨在扩大会议以外的光转导脊椎动物杆和锥，以及到突触传递。最后，第五个议题是关于疾病、动物模型和治疗的，这是过去几次会议才增加的议题。为了保持以往会议的成功，2013年会议将继续强调与会者之间密切和密集的科学互动，特别是高级和初级研究人员之间的互动，其中许多初级研究人员还将在平台上作介绍。本申请中要求的资金实际上将用于支持年轻科学家的差旅费和会议费，包括博士前和博士后学员以及尚未获得NIH资助的研究项目的初级研究人员。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application is for partial support of the 15th biennial Federation of American Societies of Experimental Biology (FASEB) summer conference on "The Biology and Chemistry of Vision" to be held on June 9-14, 2009 in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. Since its inception in 1985, this has been one of the premier and most successful meetings focused on photoreceptor biology. The major goal of the 2013 meeting is to highlight the most recent advances in a broad and diverse range of photoreceptor function issues. We would also like to boost the size of the meeting to as close to 160 people (near upper limit) as possible by making every effort to attract new people with diverse backgrounds and interests, especially junior scientists, who will be the lifeblood of the next generation. Indeed, reflecting our desire to keep the meeting fresh and lively, all speakers in the 2013 meeting will be new. There will be nine platform sessions and two poster sessions, with multiple themes. The first, as the core theme from the first (1985) of these meetings on, is the molecular and cellular details of pigments and retinoid turnover in both rods and cones, as well as the latest news about the physiology and biochemistry of the photo transduction mechanism. The second, incorporated into the past few meetings, is the cell biology and development of photoreceptors. The third, entirely new, is about the regulation of photoreceptor function by circadian and metabolic mechanisms. The fourth seeks to expand the meeting beyond photo transduction in vertebrate rods and cones as well as into synaptic transmission. Finally, the fifth again an added topic only in the past few meetings, is about diseases, animal models and therapy. In keeping with the success in past meetings, the 2013 meeting will continue to emphasize close and intense scientific interactions among the participants, especially between senior and junior investigators, with many of the latter also giving platform presentations. The funding requested in this application will in fact be used for supporting the travel expenses and conference fees for the young scientists, including pre- and post-doctoral trainees and junior investigators who have received little or no NIH funding yet for their research programs.