Zebrafish Development and Genetics Conference

描述(申请人提供)：我们提议一系列三个两年一次的会议，讨论利用斑马鱼作为模式生物研究脊椎动物发育和疾病的进展。这些会议将于2012年6月、2014年6月和2016年6月举行，这将是1994年发起并自2000年以来由这笔赠款支持的成功系列会议中的第十次、第十一次和第十二次会议。这次会议的目的是促进斑马鱼研究界就一系列主题的最新研究向广泛的领域进行交流。)斑马鱼发育和遗传学国际会议为斑马鱼研究人员提供了一个分享他们最新发现和新技术的机会。发言者是从组织者和会议主席提交的摘要中挑选出来的，以影响力和新颖性为基础，并特别强调未公布的数据。因此，该会议历来在这一领域产生了重大的“弹弓”效应，每两年启动一次研究和发现的新时代。继续以往会议的传统，我们期待拟议的会议将成功地创造机会，分享成果和技术，建立合作，协调社区资源，并促进初级调查人员和受训人员的曝光率和成功。从历史上看，该会议吸引了男女斑马鱼研究人员的比例大致相等，在广泛的职业水平上，学生、博士后以及初级和高级教职员工都有很强的代表性。这笔赠款将为从摘要中选出的1名特邀主旨发言人、20名特邀会议主席和25名平台演讲者的登记和住宿提供支助。这25名接受资助的人将根据其摘要的影响力和原创性以及性别、种族、职业阶段和需求进行选择。)

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): We propose a series of three biennial conferences discussing progress made using zebrafish as a model organism to study vertebrate development and disease. These conferences, to be held in June of 2012, 2014, and 2016, will be the tenth, eleventh and twelfth meetings in a successful series initiated in 1994 and supported by this grant since 2000. The goal of this meeting is to facilitate communication of recent studies on an array of topics to a wide cross-section of the zebrafish research community. ) The International Conference on Zebrafish Development and Genetics provides an opportunity for zebrafish researchers to share their most recent discoveries and new technologies. Speakers are selected from the submitted abstracts by the organizers and session chairs, based on impact and novelty with a strong emphasis on unpublished data. Thus the Conference has historically had a major "slingshot" effect on the field, every two years launching a new era of research and discovery. Continuing in the tradition of previous conferences, we expect that the proposed conferences will succeed in creating opportunities for sharing results and technologies, forging collaborations, coordinating community resources, and fostering the exposure and success of junior investigators and trainees. The Conference has historically drawn zebrafish researchers of both genders in approximately equal proportions, at a wide range of career levels with strong representation of students, post-docs, and both junior and senior faculty. This grant will support the registration and accommodation of one invited keynote speaker, 20 invited session chairs and 25 platform presenters selected from the abstracts. These 25 recipients of financial support will be chosen based on the impact and originality of their abstracts as well as on the basis of gender, race, career stage and need. )