The 5th Aquatic Animal Models for Human Disease Conference

描述(申请人提供)：水生动物多年来一直从事生物医学研究。通常，这些水生模型具有新奇的方面，为研究人员提供了啮齿动物或其他动物模型无法实现的优势。这次会议是2000年发起的一系列会议中的第五次，将聚集顶尖研究人员，对一些人类疾病进行研究，并使用水生动物模型。计划委员会设计了一个会议，由研讨会和平台演示以及“动手”研讨会组成，向与会者传授最新技术。越来越多的会议主要集中在一种动物(通常是斑马鱼)或一种疾病上。自成立以来，本次会议在提供其他地方找不到的广泛模型和应用方面一直是独一无二的。这是NCRR支持本系列以往会议的主要原因。会议将于2010年9月20日至23日在俄勒冈州立大学校园举行。该项目的灵感来自于美国国家科学院委托撰写的《21世纪的毒理学检测》报告。会议将探讨水生模型如何适应这一新模式。该节目将包括一些由女性和新调查人员以及代表不足的团体邀请的演讲。将通过旅行和演讲奖励以及降低注册费用来鼓励学生和博士后出勤。会议上发表的论文将发表在比较生物化学和生理学的特刊上，或由俄勒冈州立大学出版社出版成书。这次会议为合作研究建立的网络和计划将导致对NCRR、NIA的高质量申请，并丰富这些和其他NIH研究所的赠款组合。 公共卫生相关性(由申请人提供)：水生动物通常是进行生物医学研究的最佳模型。这次会议(系列会议的第五次)将汇集来自世界各地的科学家，探索水生动物在人类疾病研究中的最新应用。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Aquatic animals have been employed for many years in biomedical research. Often, these aquatic models have novel aspects that provide the researcher with advantages not achievable with rodents or other animal models. This conference is the fifth in a series that was initiated in 2000 and will bring together top investigators performing research on a number of human diseases and employing aquatic animal models. The program committee has designed a meeting consisting of symposium and platform presentations along with "hands-on" workshops to teach the latest technologies to participants. Increasingly, there are conferences and meetings offered that mostly focus on one animal (usually zebrafish) or one disease. This conference, since its inception, has been unique in providing a breadth of models and applications not found anywhere else. This is primarily the reason that NCRR has supported past conferences in this series. The meeting is to be held September 20-23, 2010 on the campus of Oregon State University. The inspiration for the program came from the National Academy of Sciences commissioned report on "Toxicology Testing in the 21st Century". The meeting will explore how aquatic models can fit this new paradigm. The program will include a number of invited talks by women and new investigators, as well as from under-represented groups. Student and post- doc attendance will be encouraged through travel and presentation awards and reduced registration costs. Papers presented at the meeting will be published in a special issue of Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology or as a book by the Oregon State University Press. The networking and plans for collaborative research made possible by this conference will result in high-quality applications to NCRR, NIA and enrich the portfolio of grants in these and other NIH institutes. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE (provided by the applicant): Aquatic animals often make for the best models in the conduct of biomedical research. This conference (the 5th in a series) will bring together scientists from around the world to explore the latest applications of aquatic animals in the study of human diseases.