26th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Gravitational and Space Biology

项目描述（由申请人提供）：本项目将在2010年11月4-7日举行的第26届美国引力与空间生物学学会年会上进行三次专题讨论会。该会议是美国同类会议中唯一一个为空间和引力生物学领域的新研究成果的报告、讨论和出版提供论坛的会议。专题讨论会的题目是“航天环境：加速骨骼老化和癌症？”、“微生物、植物和动物的光生物学”和“细胞极性钙依赖性发展中的信号传导”。之所以选择这些专题讨论会的演讲者，是因为他们的研究触及了9个国立卫生研究院在美国国立卫生研究院和美国国家航空航天局联合项目公告中所陈述的目标，该公告为国际空间站国家实验室征求生物医学相关研究。将向学生提供旅费津贴，并宣传包括妇女和人数不足的少数民族在内，以促进积极参与会议的研究和教育活动。同行评审的会议科学文章将发表在《引力与空间生物学》杂志上。会议的一个成果目标是展示引力和空间生物学研究如何为阐明生物机制提供独特的方法，而这种知识可能有助于改善地球上人类的健康。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This project is to conduct three symposia at the 26th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Gravitational and Space Biology, November 4-7, 2010. The meeting is the only one of its kind in the U.S.A. that provides a forum for the reporting and the discussion and publication of new research results in the areas of space and gravitational biology. The symposia are titled ""The spaceflight environment: accelerated skeletal aging and cancer?", "Photobiology of microbes, plants and animals", and "Signaling in calcium-dependent development of cell polarity". The symposia speakers were selected because their research touches on objectives stated by the nine National Institutes of Health in the joint NIH and NASA program announcement soliciting biomedical-related research for the International Space Station National Laboratory. Student travel stipends will be provided, with outreach awareness to include women and underrepresented minorities, to promote active participation in the research and educational activities of the meeting. Peer-reviewed scientific articles from the meeting will be published in the Gravitational and Space Biology journal. An outcome objective of the meeting is to demonstrate how gravitational and space biology research provides unique approaches to elucidating biological mechanisms, and this knowledge may contribute to improving the health of humans on Earth.