This is the second of five reports to emerge from the evaluation of the Markey Trust. As part of this assessment, the NRC hosted a scientific conference for Markey Scholars and Visiting Fellows in Rio Grande, Puerto Rico on June 28-30, 2002. The purpose of the conference was to enable the Scholars and Fellows to share their research experiences, just as they did at the annual Scholars Conferences previously conducted by the Markey Trust. All of the attending Scholars and Fellows submitted abstracts of their poster sessions. Six scholars, along with other experts in the biomedical sciences, made formal presentations. These proceedings consist of shortened versions of the individual presentations and the poster session abstracts.
George R. Reinhart, Editor, Committee for the Evaluation of the Lucille P. Markey Programs in Biomedical Sciences, Board on Higher Education and Workforce, National Research Council
1 Front Matter; 2 Selected Invited Conference Papers 1 Markey Scholars Update; 3 2 Ensuring the Future Participation of Women in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering; 4 3 The Future of Non-profit Funding in Biomedical Research; 5 4 New Directions in Genomic Research; 6 Papers Presented by Markey Scholars 5 Functional Genomics; 7 6 Electrophysiology of Synapses; 8 7 Transcription, Chromatin Assembly, and Homologous Recombination in Chromatin; 9 8 The New Biology; 10 9 Signal Transduction in Bacteria; 11 10 AAK1, A Novel Kinase That Regulates Cargo Selection for Clatherin-Mediated Endocytosis; 12 11 Abstracts of Poster Sessions; 13 Appendix A: Conference Agenda; 14 Appendix B: Speakers' Biographical Sketches; 15 Appendix C: Conference Participants
National Research Council, Division on Earth and Life Studies, Board on Life Sciences, Committee on Metagenomics: Challenges and Functional Applications
National Research Council, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, Institute of Medicine, and Families Board on Children, Youth, Steve Olson
National Research Council, Division on Earth and Life Studies, Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources, Committee on Animal Nutrition, Subcommittee on Dog and Cat Nutrition
National Research Council, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, and Statistical Sciences Committee on AIDS Research and the Behavioral, Social, Lincoln E. Moses, Heather G. Miller, Charles F. Turner
National Research Council, Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences, and Applications Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, Committee to Provide Interim Oversight of the DOE Nuclear Weapons Complex
National Research Council, Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences, Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems, Division of Natural Hazard Mitigation, Committee on Natural Disasters
National Research Council, Division on Earth and Life Studies, Environment and Resources Commission on Geosciences, Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology, Committee to Review the Outer Continental Shelf Environmental Studies Program, Ecology Panel
National Research Council, Policy and Global Affairs, Board on Higher Education and Workforce, Committee for the Evaluation of the Lucille P. Markey Charitable Trust Programs in Biomedical Sciences, George R. Reinhart