Frontiers in Microcirculation: Control Processes and Clinical Applications

描述(由申请人提供)： 这次为期两天的会议的总体目标是探索和推进微循环研究的前沿。这将通过确定和整合作为微血管功能基础的基本调控过程来实现，目的是促进临床实践和患者护理。会议有四个一般主题，每个主题都有整个上午或下午的时间。第一天将讨论可塑性(美国东部时间上午)和炎症(下午)。第2天将包含小区信令(上午)和蜂窝间通信(下午)。每个主题都有两个小时的研讨会和1.5个小时的海报会议，另外还有额外的自由时间来继续海报讨论以及个人和小组会议。研讨会和海报会议是连续安排的，以便所有参与者都能参加每一次会议。每个专题讨论会有2位受邀的主旨演讲者和4位从补充提交的摘要中挑选出来的口头陈述。每个主题背后的目的是探索微循环中的调节过程如何促进和/或在癌症、炎症和缺血等病理生理状态期间发生改变。会议的具体目标包括：1)通过促进其工作与微循环直接相关的科学家和医生之间的互动，促进微循环研究；2)通过突出年轻科学家--特别是妇女--的贡献，并特别注意挑选供受训者口头陈述的摘要，激发早期职业科学家对微循环研究的兴趣；3)创造一种会议环境，通过限制会议规模，并为发言者、与会者和受训人员--特别是妇女和少数群体--之间的非正式讨论提供大量机会，从而促进人际互动；4)突出微循环中断特别明显的疾病过程，以促进对与临床实践最相关的研究领域的兴趣。在这个翻译研究的时代，将这种新的见解整合到对疾病的理解、治疗和预防中是至关重要的。以一种互惠的方式，让研究微循环所有方面的研究人员意识到医生最需要的信息，以最有效地改善患者护理，这一点至关重要。这是第一次专门计划在微循环基础研究和这一知识在临床环境中的应用之间架起桥梁的会议。(摘要结束)

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The overall objective of this 2-day conference is to explore and advance the frontiers of research in microcirculation. This will be accomplished through identifying and integrating fundamental regulatory processes that underlie microvascular function with the purpose of advancing clinical practice and patient care. There are four general themes to the conference with an entire morning or afternoon dedicated to each theme. Day 1 will encompass Plasticity (a.m.) and Inflammation (p.m.). Day 2 will encompass Cell Signaling (a.m.) and Intercellular Communication (p.m.). A 2-hour symposium and 1.5-hour poster session are dedicated to each theme, with additional free time for continuing poster discussions as well as individual and small group meetings. Symposia and poster sessions are scheduled in series so that all participants can attend each session. Each symposium has 2 invited keynote speakers and 4 oral presentations selected from complementary submitted abstracts. Underlying each theme is the aim to explore how regulatory processes in the microcirculation contribute to and/or are altered during such pathophysiological states as cancer, inflammation and ischemia. Specific objectives of the conference include: 1) Invigorate research in microcirculation through promoting interactions among scientists and physicians whose work has direct relevance to microcirculation; 2) Stimulate interest in studying the microcirculation in early career scientists by highlighting the contributions of young scientists - particularly women - who have been invited as keynote speakers and by giving special attention to selecting abstracts for oral presentation by trainees; 3) Create a meeting environment that fosters interpersonal interactions by limiting its size and providing a venue with numerous opportunities for informal discussions between speakers, attendees and trainees - especially women and minorities; 4) Highlight disease processes where disruption of the microcirculation is particularly evident in order to promote interest in areas of research most relevant to clinical practice. In this era of translational research, it is essential that such new insight be integrated into the understanding, treatment and prevention of disease. In a reciprocal manner, it is critical that researchers who study all aspects of the microcirculation be made aware of the information most needed by physicians to most effectively improve patient care. This meeting is the first to be planned specifically for building bridges between basic research in microcirculation and the application of this knowledge in clinical settings. (End of Abstract)