Biennial Meeting Society for Research on Biological Rhythms

简介（由申请人提供）：生物节律研究学会（SRBR）两年一次的会议将于2010年5月22日至26日在佛罗里达州德斯汀的Sandestin度假村举行。本次会议的项目主席是来自弗吉尼亚大学生物系和生物计时中心的Ignacio Provencio。本次会议将在广泛的范围内探讨与昼夜生物学相关的主题，从生化/分子和遗传分析到整个生物体的行为和生理学，包括人类临床研究。这个广泛的主题表明了这个领域，它的本质是非常多学科的。该计划包括各种形式的演讲，包括邀请演讲者的大型专题讨论会，根据提交的摘要编制的小型幻灯片会议和海报会议，以及探索该领域特定热点领域的一些研讨会。本次会议的演讲者和讨论领袖经过精心挑选，因此许多领域都有很好的代表，包括学术研究人员（包括来自少数民族机构的研究人员）、政府科学家和工业研究人员。此外，我们有很大的女性代表（包括60%的项目委员会），并努力包括来自欧洲、拉丁美洲和亚洲的科学家。虽然该会议每两年举行一次，但该领域的发展如此之快，以至于每次会议都与以前的会议有很大的不同。2010年会议的一个目标是引入一些来自外部领域的优秀科学家，以增加时钟研究的跨学科方面。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Biennial Meeting of Society for Research on Biological Rhythms (SRBR) will be held at Sandestin Resort in Destin, Florida from May 22-26, 2010. The Program Chair of this conference is Ignacio Provencio from the Department of Biology and the Center for Biological Timing at the University of Virginia. This conference will explore topics related to circadian biology on a broad scale ranging from biochemical/molecular and genetic analyses to whole organism behavior and physiology, including human clinical studies. This broad range of topics is indicative of this field, which is by its nature very multi-disciplinary. The program includes presentations in a variety of formats, including large symposia with invited speakers, small slide sessions and poster sessions programmed from the submitted abstracts and a number of workshops exploring specific hot areas of the field. The speakers and discussion leaders for this conference have been chosen so that many areas will be well represented, including academic researchers (including those from minority institutions), government scientists, and industrial researchers. In addition, we have a large representation of women (including 60% of the program committee) and have made an effort to include scientists from Europe, Latin America and Asia in addition to those from the US. Although this meeting is held every two years, the field is moving so rapidly that each meeting is a significant departure from previous meetings. A goal of the 2010 meeting is to bring in a number of excellent scientists from outside fields to increase the inter-disciplinary aspects of clock studies. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Circadian rhythms are daily rhythms in behavior and physiology that are driven by an internal 24-hour biological clock. The sleep:wake cycle is perhaps the most obvious of circadian rhythms. The anatomical site of the primary circadian clock is within the hypothalamus of the brain. However, peripheral tissues and organs also contain secondary circadian clocks that are synchronized by the central hypothalamic clock. Within the last decade, substantial evidence has emerged indicating that desynchrony among the circadian clocks within the body has profound negative effects on human health. Among the maladies associated with a desynchronized circadian system are obesity, diabetes, metabolic syndrome, depression, immunological deficiencies, sleep disorders, gastric irritability, impacts on learning and memory, and a substantial decrement in workplace performance. The Society for Research in Biological Rhythms (SRBR) is the most prominent scientific society engaged in the study of biological rhythms. Its biennial SRBR Meeting is the primary venue where the top international scientists involved in biological rhythms research and their trainees exchange information on the most recent findings and advances in the field. The purpose of this application is to obtain funding for graduate student and postdoctoral fellowship trainees to attend the next SRBR Meeting.