Concepts and Model Organisms in Regenerative Biology

申请者描述(由申请者提供)：申请资助部分在美洲的美国科学家和学生参加短期课程再生生物学的概念和模型生物，将于2010年11月2-11日在智利圣地亚哥的智利大学举行。这将是发育生物学学会(SDB)和拉丁美洲发育生物学学会(LASDB)在拉丁美洲的第三次大型合作培训活动，来自美国(15人)和拉丁美洲国家(15人)的杰出科学家和尖子生参加。最初的两个短期课程分别于2005年春季在巴西和2008年秋季在阿根廷举行。这第三门课程将是LASDB第五届国际会议的卫星，学生们可以参加并向更多的国际观众展示他们的作品。 再生生物学通常不包括在发育生物学课程中，尽管这两个过程之间存在明显的相关性。本课程将强调使我们进一步了解生物体如何在成年后发育并保持其完整性的共同步骤和进展，以及在不久的将来在医学上的潜在应用。学生将接触到在这两个领域中使用的基本概念、问题、模型生物和研究工具，并将被鼓励在这些过程之间建立自己的联系。挑选讲师主要是因为他们在各自专业的研究中表现出色，他们的教学方法充满活力，以及他们愿意在课程结束后继续合作努力。他们将对传统和新兴技术的潜力和局限性以及在此类研究中使用的模型生物提供一个平衡的观点。在拥有最先进设备的实验室里举行的实践课程将为学生提供大量实践经验，使他们能够接触到不同的生物，这些生物既有众所周知的，也有不寻常的再生特性：老鼠、青蛙、斑马鱼、火蜥蜴、苍蝇、蛔虫、脊椎动物、海参和植物。 学生将从美国博士后研究员和高级研究生提交的申请中挑选，并根据他们以前在该领域的经验和兴趣从拉丁美洲的研究生、博士后研究员和年轻教师中挑选。正在考虑将研究重点转向再生/发育生物学的其他学科的拉丁美洲教师也将获得资格。 短期课程中的大多数学生预计将进入未来生物学及相关领域的研究人员和教育工作者的供应渠道。这一短期课程将以最高质量的培训活动的形式，扩大这些学生接触再生和发育生物学领域的机会，并提供与各国现有实验室合作的机会。 项目简介：这个短期课程“再生生物学中的概念和模式生物”是由发育生物学学会(美国)联合组织的。和拉丁美洲发育生物学学会(LASDB)。它的目的是培训西半球的博士后研究员和高级研究生，了解发育和再生生物学的基本问题和创新方法，并将其应用于健康。被选中的学生正在为这一领域和相关领域提供未来的研究人员和教员，并将加强美洲实验室之间的合作研究努力。

DESCRIPTION (Provided by Applicant): Funds are requested for partial support of U.S.-based scientists and students in the Americas to participate in the Short Course Concepts and Model Organisms in Regenerative Biology, to be held at Pontificia Universidad Cat¿lica de Chile in Santiago, Chile, November 2-11, 2010. This will be the third major collaborative training event between the Society for Developmental Biology (SDB) and the Latin American Society for Developmental Biology (LASDB) in Latin America, with the participation of distinguished scientists and top students from the United States (15) and Latin American countries (15). The first two short courses were held in spring of 2005 in Brazil and fall of 2008 in Argentina. This third course will be satellite to the LASDB's 5TH International Meeting, which will allow the students to attend and present their own work to a larger international audience. Regenerative biology is not usually covered in developmental biology courses, despite the obvious correlation between these two processes. This course will emphasize the common steps and advances that have allowed us to further understand how organisms develop and maintain their integrity in adulthood, and the potential applications in medicine in the near future. Students will be exposed to the fundamental concepts, questions, model organisms, and research tools used in both areas, and will be encouraged to draw their own associations between these processes. The instructors were selected primarily for the excellence of their research in respective specialties, their dynamic teaching approach, and their willingness to continue collaborative efforts after the course. They will give a balanced view of the potentials and limitations of the traditional and emerging technologies, as well as model organisms used in such studies. The practical sessions held in laboratories with state-of-the-art equipment will provide plenty opportunity for the students to acquire hands-on experience working with different organisms that have well-known as well as those with uncommon regenerative properties: mouse, frog, zebrafish, salamander, fly, roundworm, planarian, sea cucumber, and plant. Students will be selected from applications submitted by postdoctoral fellows and advanced graduate students in the U.S., and from graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and young faculty in Latin America, based on their previous experience and interest in the field. Latin American faculty in other disciplines who are considering a change in the focus of their research to regenerative/developmental biology will also be eligible. Most of the students in the short course are expected to enter the pipeline for supply of future investigators and educators in biology and related areas. This short course will broaden the exposure of these students to the fields of regenerative and developmental biology, in the form of a training event of the highest quality, as well as to offer opportunities to work with established laboratories in the various countries. PROJECT NARRATIVE: This short course "Concepts and Model Organisms in Regenerative Biology" is organized jointly by the Society for Developmental Biology (in U.S.) and the Latin American Society for Developmental Biology (LASDB). It aims in training postdoctoral fellows and advanced graduate students in the Western Hemisphere in understanding the fundamental questions and innovative approaches in developmental and regenerative biology, and in its applications to health. The selected students are in the pipeline for supplying future investigators and faculty in this and related areas, and will enhance collaborative research efforts among the laboratories in the Americas.