Teratology Society 48th Annual Meeting: Student and Postdoctoral Travel Awards

畸胎学协会第 48 届年会：学生和博士后旅行奖

• 批准号: 7539086
• 负责人: MICHAEL David COLLINS
• 金额: $ 1.1万
• 依托单位: TERATOLOGY SOCIETY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-07-01 至 2009-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7539086
• 关键词: Award; California; Clinical; Congenital Abnormality; Discipline; Event; Fostering; Funding; Future; Goals; Government; Grant; Mentors; Nature; Postdoctoral Fellow; Prevention; Research; Research Personnel; Science; Scientific Societies; Scientist; Societies; Structure; Students; Teratology; Training and Education; Travel; abstracting; career; cost; member; posters; programs

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant) The Teratology Society was founded in 1960 with its first annual meeting held in 1961. The Society was formed to foster exchange of information relating to congenital (birth) defects including their nature, cause, mechanism and prevention. From June 28-July 2, 2008 the Society will hold its 48th Annual Meeting in Monterey, California. The Society members and meeting attendees historically come from a diverse professional background including basic and clinical scientists from the academic, industrial and government research sectors. This rich and scientifically diverse mix of professionals, meet in an informal setting that encourages open exchange of ideas and the latest experimental findings. From its inception, the Teratology Society has understood the importance of encouraging and mentoring students and postdoctoral fellows and has included fostering education and training as part of its strategic goals. The Annual Meeting Agenda includes events and session to encourage student and postdoctoral fellow participation. For the 2008 Annual Meeting, the Teratology Society Council has developed a new mentoring program. This new program will give students and postdoctoral fellows an opportunity to have a lunch meeting with a specific leader in the Society. The event will be structured so each mentor will have small group to facilitate the participation of each attendee. In addition there will be one platform session which highlights the research of graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. This platform session is comprised of talks competitively selected from the pool of abstracts submitted for platform presentation by students and postdoctoral fellows. Those students and postdoctoral fellows whose abstracts are not submitted or selected for this session are included in other platform and poster sessions throughout the meeting. During the poster sessions, abstracts presented by students and postdoctoral fellows are marked as such in order to encourage interaction between the presenters and the members of the Society and meeting attendees. The Teratology Society recognizes that the student and fellows are the future of both the Society and the scientific discipline. Involving the students and fellows in the science by providing them an opportunity to present their research, interact with some of the leading scientists in the field, and form relationships that they will carry throughout their career is vital to field of birth defects research. Many of these students and postdoctoral fellows rely on travel awards to assist them in offsetting the financial burden of attending the meeting. Without funding such as this, many would not be able to take advantage of the rich exchange of scientific information and new ideas generated at this scientific meeting. In this proposal, the investigators are requesting funds to defray part of the cost of travel awards. Travel awards will be granted to students and postdoctoral fellows presenting their research findings at the 2008 Teratology Society Annual Meeting.

描述（由申请人提供） 畸形学学会成立于 1960 年，并于 1961 年举行了第一次年会。该学会的成立是为了促进有关先天性（出生）缺陷的信息交流，包括其性质、原因、机制和预防。 2008年6月28日至7月2日，协会将在加利福尼亚州蒙特雷举行第48届年会。 协会成员和与会者历来来自不同的专业背景，包括来自学术、工业和政府研究部门的基础和临床科学家。 这些丰富且科学多样化的专业人士在非正式的环境中会面，鼓励开放的思想交流和最新的实验结果。 从成立之初，畸胎学协会就了解鼓励和指导学生和博士后研究员的重要性，并将促进教育和培训作为其战略目标的一部分。 年会议程包括鼓励学生和博士后参与的活动和会议。 畸形学协会理事会为 2008 年年会制定了一项新的指导计划。 这个新计划将为学生和博士后研究员提供与协会特定领导者举行午餐会的机会。 该活动的结构是每位导师都会有一个小组，以方便每位参与者的参与。此外，还将举办一场平台会议，重点介绍研究生和博士后研究人员的研究。 该平台会议由学生和博士后研究员从提交用于平台演示的摘要库中竞争性选出的演讲组成。 那些未提交或未被选中参加本次会议的学生和博士后研究员将被纳入整个会议的其他平台和海报会议。 在海报会议期间，学生和博士后研究员提交的摘要会被标记，以鼓励演讲者与学会成员和与会者之间的互动。 畸胎学学会认识到学生和研究员是学会和科学学科的未来。 让学生和研究员参与科学，为他们提供展示研究的机会，与该领域的一些领先科学家互动，并建立他们将在整个职业生涯中保持的关系，这对于出生缺陷研究领域至关重要。 这些学生和博士后中的许多人依靠旅行奖励来帮助他们抵消参加会议的经济负担。如果没有这样的资金，许多人将无法利用本次科学会议上丰富的科学信息交流和新思想。 在这项提案中，调查人员要求提供资金来支付部分旅行奖励费用。旅行奖将颁发给在 2008 年畸胎学协会年会上展示其研究成果的学生和博士后研究员。