Society for Developmental Biology Annual Meetings 2014-2018

项目说明（由申请人提供）：申请资金用于未来五年（2014-2018年）发展生物学学会年会的部分支持。在过去的75年里，该学会组织了发育生物学的主要会议（在第二次世界大战期间缺少两次）。自1993年将年会形式从单一主题研讨会改为开放的包容性会议以来，会议规模增加了三倍（从1994年的263次增加到过去10年的平均760次）。通过允许学生和博士后发表论文，在过去的几年里，我们将提交的摘要数量从不足100篇增加到平均600篇。扩展到包括发育生物学和相关领域的前沿主题，如干细胞和再生生物学，以及快速的技术进步，使研究人员能够找到以前未解决的问题的解释，这也促进了出席人数的增长，以及今天在生物医学研究和公众利益方面的地位。SDB成立于1939年，今天是致力于该领域的主要协会，在全球拥有2200多名成员，包括本科生和研究生，博士后研究员，初级和成熟的研究人员，其中许多人获得了NIH的资助和奖学金。拟议的会议将延续传统，包括海报展示、全体会议、同期专题讨论会、希尔德·曼戈尔德博士后研讨会、颁奖讲座、教育研讨会和关于新技术、教育和当前问题的讲习班。在所有会议上，都特别努力在以下方面邀请多样化的演讲者：模式生物、实验方法、职业阶段、性别和种族/民族背景。对于同时举行的研讨会，每届会议至少保留四个简短的演讲时段，从提交的摘要中选择摘要，优先考虑合格的初级研究人员。教育专题讨论会和讲习班的重点是在大学和大学预科阶段有效的教学和指导策略，向普通公众推广，以及与职业有关的问题。它们还涉及研究的生物伦理，这与制定干细胞和克隆研究的国家政策以及公众对包括进化在内的科学的理解高度相关。额外的活动

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Funds are requested for partial support of the Society for Developmental Biology's (SDB) annual meetings for the next five years (2014-2018). The Society has organized the major meeting in developmental biology for the past 75 years (missing two during World War II). Since the annual meeting changed its format from a single theme symposium to an open, inclusive meeting in 1993, the meeting size has grown three-fold (from 263 in 1994 to an average of 760 in the last 10 years). By allowing presentations by students and postdoctoral fellows, we have increased the number of abstract submissions from less than 100 to an average of 600's in the last few years. The expansion to include cutting edge themes in developmental biology and related areas such as stem cell and regenerative biology, together with the fast technical advances that allowed investigators to find explanations to questions unanswered before also contributed to this growth in attendance, as well as its standing today in biomedical research and public interest. SDB was founded in 1939 and is today the major society devoted to this field, with over 2200 members worldwide, including undergraduate and graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, junior and established investigators, many of whom hold NIH grants and fellowships. The proposed meetings will continue the tradition of mixing poster presentations, plenary sessions, concurrent symposia, the Hilde Mangold Postdoctoral Symposium, the awards lectures, an education symposium and workshops on new technologies, education and current issues. In all sessions, a special effort is made to have a diversity of invited speakers in terms of: model organisms, experimental approaches, career stages, gender and racial/ethnic background. For the concurrent symposia at least four short talk slots are reserved per session for abstracts selected from submissions, with preference given to qualified junior investigators. The education symposium and workshop focus on topics such as effective teaching and mentoring strategies at university and pre-college levels, outreach to the lay public, as well as career-related issues. They also address bioethics of research, which is highly relevant to establishing national policies for research on stem cells and cloning, as well as public understanding of science, including evolution. Additional activities that enrich the annual meetings include: On alternating years we hold a Boot Camp for New Faculty or a Reboot Camp for Mid-career Faculty the day preceding and on the first day of the meeting for professional development of untenured and mid-career faculty, respectively. SDB's Professional Development and Education Committee is responsible for these workshops. Call for up to two SDB member organized Satellite Symposia are made and will continue to be made yearly to SDB members. These Symposia complement the offerings of the annual meeting and are held on the opening day of the meeting. These pre-meeting events have been well-attended throughout the last ten years and will continue during this proposal period. The next meeting, to be held at the University of Washington, Seattle, WA is a return to our previous tradition of meetings on university campuses, a practice no longer possible because only a few campuses have facilities large enough for our growing meeting needs. It will also celebrate the 75th anniversary of founding of the Society and as such, sessions highlighting history and breakthroughs will be included in the program. The opening Presidential Symposium will address What have genetic model organisms taught us, where experts will give us an overview of what each organism has contributed to advancing our understanding of developmental processes. The two plenary and nine concurrent sessions will bring reports on the latest discoveries in developmental mechanisms, such as gene regulation, genomics, cell polarity, migration and differentiation, invasion and cancer, mechanical influences, tissue engineering, morphogenesis, organogenesis, evo-devo, organismal interactions, neural development. This meeting will be followed by meetings in Snowbird, Utah, Central region, West and East coast, as rotation throughout the various regions eases the travel burden for participants in the different zones of the country. Efforts will be continually made to find venues of easy access and as economical as possible, including keeping the tradition of university campuses as venue for their collegial atmosphere so cherished by our members.