2009 Nitric Oxide Gordon Research Conference

描述（由申请人提供）： 戈登研究会议“一氧化氮（NO）”的目的是提供化学家，生物学家，细胞生物学家，临床医生和其他科学家与NO生成系统的基本结构/功能关系的最先进的知识和NO作为生理和病理生理状态的信号分子的生物学。该研究会议每两年举行一次，下次会议将于3月1日至6日在意大利巴尔加的Il Ciocco举行。来自学术界、政府和工业界的大约175名与会者预计将出席2009年戈登研究会议。要求提供部分资金，以支付与会者（即来自美国和国外的演讲者/讨论带头人，以及有成果的研究生/博士后候选人、在NO生物学领域工作的年轻科学家）的旅费和/或会议注册费。发言者由以前的主席，共同主席和该领域的其他人选出，以涵盖该领域的新兴领域，并平衡高级和初级调查员的计划。会议将包括一氧化氮在心血管和神经退行性疾病以及癌症中的化学和分子作用机制。教授威廉·塞萨，彼得福特，和柯特·哈里斯已同意目前全体讲座以及路易斯·卡佩罗作为第一届会议的主席，他们目前的研究结果，并将增加区别的会议。此外，还有两个突出的海报会议，从提交给会议的摘要中选出，还有一个特别的“热门话题”会议，鼓励新的或已建立的调查人员在最后一分钟提交令人兴奋的发现，最终奖励给几个初级调查人员。本次会议的主要优势是在高度集中但非正式的智力刺激气氛中进行跨学科互动的机会。关于NO的戈登会议在探索这一重要翻译领域的新前景方面发挥着至关重要的作用。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Gordon Research Conference on "Nitric Oxide (NO)" is designed to provide chemists, biologists, cell biologists, clinicians and other scientists with state of the art knowledge on the basic structure/function relationships of NO generating systems and the biology of NO as a signaling molecule in physiological and pathophysiological states. This research conference is held every two years and the next conference will take place at the Il Ciocco, Barga, Italy, on March 1-6. Approximately 175 participants from academia, government and industry are expected to attend the 2009 Gordon Research Conference. Funds are requested to partially support travel costs and/or conference registration fees for participants (i.e. speakers/discussion leaders from the United States and abroad and for productive graduate students/post-doctoral candidates, younger scientists working in the field of NO biology). The speakers have been selected by previous chairs, co-chairs and others in the field to cover emerging areas in the field and to balance the program with senior and junior investigators. Sessions will include the chemical and molecular mechanism of action of nitric oxide in cardiovascular and neurodegenerative diseases as well as cancer. Professors William Sessa, Peter Ford, and Curt Harris have agreed to present plenary lectures as well as Louis Ignarro as chair of the first session on their current findings and will add distinction to the meeting. In addition, there are two prominently featured poster sessions selected from abstracts submitted to the meeting and a special "hot topics" session that encourages last minute submissions of exciting findings from new or established investigators culminating in awards given to several of the junior investigators. The main strength of this meeting is the opportunity for cross disciplinary interactions in a highly focused, yet informal intellectually stimulating atmosphere. The Gordon Conference on NO plays an essential role in exploring new vistas in this important translational field.