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Our Sincere Appreciation To OUR SINCERE APPRECIATION TO SUZHOU INDUSTRIAL PARK ADMINISTRATIVE COMMITTEE COLD SPRING HARBOR ASIA CSHA CEO’S REPORT 冷泉港亚洲 冷泉港亚洲首席执行官报告 2013 CSHA President’s Essay Plan the timing and pace of your talk, or the layout of your poster, 2013 Summary mission is that our CSHA program, while headquartered in Suzhou, with care. Good organization really helps in navigating through should reach out as broadly as possible to benet life scientists even complex material, and will make your science stand out throughout the entire Asia-Pacic region. Excitingly, 2013 marked the Stories can be told in many ways. Good 2013 was a year of increased momentum compared to your competition. Even negative or mixed results rst extension of activities outside China. In collaboration with the scientic stories usually follow a narrative in investment in scientic research and can be presented in such a way as to drive the narrative forward. Japanese Biochemistry Society (JBS) we hosted an independent form typical of a well-rounded tale, with a education by governments in the In terms of timing of your presentation, running over by a minute session at JBS’s 86th annual meeting in Yokohama. This CSHA beginning, in which the scope of the plot Asia-Pacic region. In response to this or so is generally accepted, but better still prepare to nish within session in Japan addressed the latest developments in epigenetics, unfolds, a middle, in which the narration robust growth in funding, more the allotted time. It is rude to take time away from other involved an outstanding cast of international scientists from Singapore, twists and turns, and an end, when all is well-trained scientists are migrating or presenters, either because you think your work is so important or Korea, USA, China and Japan, and embodied the same scientic spirit revealed. Narrating the story of your returning to Asia; there is a real sense of because you did not plan well. Too many times, I have witnessed and open discussion as our meetings in Suzhou and Cold Spring scientic discovery through a scientic optimism and condence in the air. The a presenter antagonize an audience by not nishing on time, and Harbor. talk or poster requires care and thought, scientic landscape of the Asia-Pacic all that anyone can remember afterwards is that the person a good understanding of your audience, region is rapidly being transformed, and the impact is overran their time, not the work they presented. Indeed 2013 was a remarkable year for Cold Spring Harbor Asia. a clear grasp of the logical ow of your material, all best being felt around the world. These positive factors leavened with a little humor. continue to reshape and increase research productivity in Design your slides or poster to be legible and clear by the entire the region, best exemplied by the exponential growth of audience, not just the big shots in the front row, without excess Cold Spring Harbor meetings are famous for the large publications in internationally accredited journals. Echoing use of transitions or animations, except when these help in number of short talks selected from the openly submitted this trend, CSHA worked hard in 2013 to capture a wider conveying a scientic point. Only include data or concepts that abstracts, many given by rst-time presenters. The range of rapid scientic developments in the life sciences. you are going to have time to address in your presentation. Large opportunity to learn the latest unpublished work is as The new meetings we developed this year, for example on amounts of data on slides that you have no time to cover is much part of the rationale in attending our meetings as is metabolism, membrane proteins, infectious diseases and confusing, and detracts from your narrative. the chance to mix with leading experts. And whether you host interactions, epitomize CSHA’s efforts to broaden are offered the opportunity of a keynote talk, a ten minute our program and showcase much new and vital research Acknowledge the work of others as you go along. Many of your short talk or a poster, many of the same rules apply to from around the region. preparing your material. Plan your presentation with care, colleagues and collaborators may be in the audience, and they will not appreciate having their contributions unrecognized. You out of respect for those to whom you will be telling your For us, 2013 not only saw a steady growth in the number can do this throughout the presentation or at the end, but do not story. All the more reason to do this, since CSHA of our meetings, but was also a year in which the quality of forget to reference the work of others whenever it is appropriate. audiences are international, with many having travelled a our conferences went from strength to strength. Among It can lend heft to your own research and shows that you are able very long way to hear you. Here are a number of points to the highlights of 2013, the CSHA optical imaging meeting to integrate your work in a broader context. And when handling consider: has evolved into one of the CSHA’s signature meetings the discussion after your talk, avoid condescending or patronizing and is now a key event in this particular eld: the list of the the person asking the question-sometimes it can help to rephrase Firstly, know your audience. This should inform the extent speakers now include the premier key players actively their question out loud, in case it was missed by some of the of introductory material needed and should dictate how working at the cutting-edge of molecular and cellular audience rst time round. much jargon you can use (the less the better!). A broader imaging. While all our meetings attract signicant numbers audience needs more context of why your work is of distinguished and established scientists as speakers, in In summary, my general advice to would-be presenters is that important, and how it ts into the wider picture. A highly many ways the real highlights of each program are the practice makes perfect. Know your slides, practice by presenting specialized audience may need at most one introductory outstanding short talks given by promising junior scientists the talk or poster out loud to peers, practice at home and practice slide or gure, before you go into the details of your from key labs around the Asia-Pacic region. research. At all times, try to keep your audience engaged, on your way to the conference. That will ensure you get your message across, and can lead to useful discussion, even when you are in front of hundreds of people, through Deeply ingrained into Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory’s eye contact, pacing and style. collaborations or even job offers! Don’t overwhelm your audience with too much content. However much work you and your labmates may have done, think carefully about how much material you can present in the allotted time. Make sure you leave enough time for your novel and unpublished work to be showcased, since what you are looking for is feedback and comment on work you plan to publish, not what is already in the public domain. 1 2 3 4 2013 CONFERENCE AND COURSE PROGRAM / Cold Spring Harbor Asia 2013 CONFERENCE AND COURSE PROGRAM / Cold Spring Harbor Asia MECHANISMS AND FUNCTIONS OF NON-APOPTOTIC CELL DEATH 非凋亡性细胞死亡的机制和功能 April 15-19 148 Participants ORGANIZED BY Junying Yuan, Harvard Medical School, USA 美国哈佛大学医学院 Jiahuai Han, Xiamen University, CHINA 中国厦门大学 Masayuki Miura, University of Tokyo, JAPAN 日本东京大学 Peter Vandenabeele, Ghent University, VIB, BELGIUM 比利时根特大学 KEYNOTE SPEAKER Shigekazu Nagata, Kyoto University, Graduate School of Medicine, JAPAN 日本京都大学医学研究生院 PROGRAM SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION OF NECROPTOSIS I INVITED SPEAKERS Jiahuai Han, Xiamen University, CHINA Avi Ashkenazi, Genentech, Inc., USA 美国基因工程技术公司 Eric Baehrecke, University of Massachusetts Medical School, USA 美国麻省大学医学院 Alexei Degterev, Tufts University, USA 美国塔夫斯大学 PATHOLOGICAL ROLES OF NECROPTOSIS Douglas Green, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, USA 美国圣裘德儿童研究医院 Peter Vandenabeele, Ghent University, VIB, BELGIUM William Kaiser, Emory University, USA 美国埃默里大学 Sharad Kumar, Centre for Cancer Biology, AUSTRALIA 澳大利亚肿瘤生物学中心 NON-APOPTOTIC CELL DEATH AND HOST DEFENSE RESPONSE Masayuki Miura, University of Tokyo, JAPAN 东京大学 Francis Chan, University of Massachusetts Medical School, USA Zheng-Hong Qin, Soochow University School of Pharmaceutical Science, CHINA 中国苏州大学药学院 Shai Shaham, The Rockefeller University, USA 美国洛克菲勒大学 FROM APOPTOSIS TO NON-APOPTOSIS Yigong Shi, Tsinghua University, CHINA 中国清华大学 Shigeomi Shimizu, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, JAPAN 东京医科歯科大学 Adrian T. Ting, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, USA Brent Stockwell, HHMI/ Columbia University, USA 美国霍华德休斯医学研究院/ 美国哥伦比亚大学 Nektarios Tavernarakis, Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas, GREECE 希腊研究与技术基金会 MULTIPLE TYPES OF NON-APOPTOTIC CELL DEATH Adrian Ting, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, USA 美国纽约西奈山研究院 Zheng-Hong Qin, Soochow University School of Pharmaceutical Science, CHINA Henning Walczak, Imperial College London, UK 英国帝国理工学院 David Wallach, Weizmann Institute of Science, ISRAEL 以色列魏兹曼科学研究所 NON-APOPTOTIC CELL DEATH IN DIFFERENT ORGANISMS Xiaodong Wang, National Institute of Biological Sciences, CHINA 北京生命科学研究所 Masayuki Miura, University of Tokyo, JAPAN Hao Wu, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, USA 美国波士顿儿童医院/ 美国哈佛大学医学院 Sandra Zinkel, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, USA 美国范德堡大学医学院 5 6 2013 CONFERENCE AND COURSE PROGRAM / Cold Spring Harbor Asia 2013 CONFERENCE AND COURSE PROGRAM / Cold Spring Harbor Asia FRANCIS CRICK SYMPOSIUM ON
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