International Zebrafish Conference

项目摘要 我们建议每年举行五次国际斑马鱼会议， 美国/加拿大、欧洲和亚太地区，讨论以斑马鱼为模型所取得进展 研究脊椎动物的发展，稳态和疾病。这些会议将在 2023年至2027年夏季，将是1994年发起的成功系列会议的第18至22次会议， 自2000年以来，部分由该赠款支持。会议的目的是促进 前沿的研究课题的一系列广泛和包容性的横截面的斑马鱼 超过1,500个实验室的研究社区。为了确保斑马鱼研究人员，美国和来自 不同的国家，每年都可以参加，我们以混合形式组织了2022年会议， 结合面对面和虚拟参与。这种混合形式减少了经济、地理和环境的影响。 2019冠状病毒病大流行对参与施加了障碍;它是环境可持续的，并基于成功 2022年，我们计划将其扩展到未来的会议。 国际斑马鱼会议为斑马鱼研究人员提供了一个分享其 最新的发现和新技术。从提交的报告中选出了一组不同的发言者。 摘要由组织者和会议主席，根据影响，人口统计和新奇与一个强大的 强调未公布的数据。因此，会议在历史上一直对发展中国家产生重大的“弹弓”效应， 这一领域，开启了研究和发现的新时代。继续以往会议的传统， 我们期望拟议的会议将成功地为分享成果创造机会， 技术，建立合作，协调社区资源，并促进曝光和 初级调查员和受训人员的成功。重要的是，国际和欧洲斑马鱼协会 接受这样一种观念，即不同背景的才华横溢的科学家提供了丰富和广泛的 不同的方法、专业知识和观点，不仅促进知识，而且大大丰富了 在一次会议上的科学演讲。因此，我们制定了一个深思熟虑的多元化计划， 增加传统上代表性不足的群体的研究人员数量。 会议历史上吸引了斑马鱼研究人员的两种性别， 比例，在广泛的职业水平与学生，博士后的强烈代表性，两者兼而有之 初级和高级教员。这笔赠款将支持40项会议赠款（登记/住房/差旅费）， 和注册的虚拟）美国的参与者，并将支持虚拟技术，这些混合 两会这40个美国的财政支持接受者将根据影响和 他们的摘要的原创性，以及性别，种族，职业阶段和需要的基础上。

PROJECT SUMMARY We propose a series of five annual International Zebrafish Conferences rotating between locations in the US/Canada, Europe and Asia-Pacific that discuss progress made using zebrafish as a model organism to study vertebrate development, homeostasis, and disease. These conferences, to be held in the summers of 2023 – 2027, will be the 18th- 22nd meetings in a successful series initiated in 1994 and partially supported by this grant since 2000. The goal of the meetings is to facilitate communication of cutting-edge research studies on an array of topics to a wide and inclusive cross-section of the zebrafish research community of over 1,500 laboratories. To ensure that the zebrafish researchers, US-based and from different countries, can participate each year, we organized the 2022 conference in a hybrid format, which combined in-person and virtual participation. Such hybrid format reduces the economic, geographic and the Covid-19 pandemic-imposed barriers to participation; it is environmentally sustainable and based on the success in 2022, we plan to extend it to future conferences. The International Zebrafish Conference provides an opportunity for zebrafish researchers to share their most recent discoveries and new technologies. A diverse group of speakers is selected from the submitted abstracts by the organizers and session chairs, based on impact, demographics and novelty with a strong emphasis on unpublished data. Thus, the Conferences have historically had a major “slingshot” effect on the field, launching new eras 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. Importantly, the International and European Zebrafish Societies embrace the notion that highly talented scientists of diverse backgrounds provide a richness and breadth of varied approaches, expertise and perspectives that not only advance knowledge, but also greatly enrich the scientific discourse at a conference. We, therefore, assembled a thoughtful diversity plan that outlines strategies to increase the number of researchers from traditionally underrepresented groups. 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 40 conference grants (registration/housing/travel of in-person and registration of virtual) US-based participants and will support a virtual technology for these hybrid conferences. These 40 US-based 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.