2013 Developmental Biology Gordon Research Conference

描述（由申请人提供）：2013年戈登发育生物学研究会议的部分经费申请。这个为期五天的会议自1970年开始举办，被认为是发育生物学领域最重要和最负盛名的中型会议，聚集了约150名杰出的高级和初级科学家，讨论该领域的最新进展。这次会议有几个独特之处。它涵盖了各种各样的实验系统，并专注于特殊活动或有希望的领域。这导致了富有成效的比较分析，并提出了关于潜在机制的新问题。31名应邀发言者已确认出席，他们是根据他们对本领域的创造性贡献和促进富有成果的讨论的能力选出的。在2011年的最后一次会议上，没有一位受邀演讲者发言。2013年会议将首次在意大利卢卡（巴尔加）的Il Ciocco Tuscany度假村的戈登会议场地举行，这将鼓励国际思想交流。该网站在地理上是孤立的，这将使参与者近距离深入讨论五天，不受干扰。会议的形式将包括上午和晚上约45个简短的谈话，然后是讨论，下午的非正式互动和约90张海报的展示。九场会议涵盖了该领域的经典主题和新兴领域：器官发生；早期发育的细胞机制；发育遗传学;发育过程中基因表达的调控网络形态多样性的进化：上皮细胞模式和形态发生干细胞生物学；模式和细胞命运。部分会议时间未确定，以便从与会者提交的摘要中选择发言者。通过最大化正式讨论和非正式互动，戈登发育生物学会议将有助于确定该领域的现状和未来。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Funds are requested for partial support of the 2013 Gordon Research Conference on Developmental Biology. This five-day conference, which has been running since 1970, is recognized as the major and most prestigious mid-size meeting in Developmental Biology, bringing together ~150 outstanding senior and junior scientists for discussions of the recent advances in the field. The conference has several features that make it unique. It spans a wide variety of experimental systems and focuses on areas of exceptional activity or promise. This leads to fruitful comparative analyses and raises new questions about underlying mechanisms. 31 invited speakers, chosen based on their creative contributions to the field the field and their ability to promote fruitful discussions, have confirmed their attendance. None of the invited speakers spoke at the last conference in 2011. For the first time, the 2013 conference will take place at the Gordon Conference site in at Il Ciocco Tuscany Resort in Lucca (Barga) Italy, which will encourage an international exchange of ideas. The site is geographically isolated, which will keep participants in close proximity for five days of in-deph discussion, without distractions. The conference format will consist in the mornings and evenings of ~45 short talks followed by discussion and in the afternoon of informal interactions and presentation of ~90 posters. The nine sessions cover classic topics and emerging areas in the field: Organogenesis; Cellular Mechanisms of Early Development; Developmental Genetics; Regulatory Networks of Gene Expression during Development; Evolution of Morphological Diversity: Epithelial Patterning and Morphogenesis; Stem Cell Biology; Patterning and Cell Fate. Some of the session time has been kept uncommitted to choose speakers from abstracts submitted by the participants. By maximizing both formal discussion and informal interactions, the Gordon Conference on Developmental Biology will help to define both the present state and the future of the field.