Thyroid fine needle aspiration cytology: a review of the National Cancer Institute state of the science symposium

L. J. Layfield, E. S. Cibas and Z. Baloch
Thyroid fine needle aspiration cytology: a review of the national cancer institute state of the science symposium In October 2007, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) of the United States sponsored a conference reviewing the state of the science of thyroid fine needle aspiration (FNA). Multiple issues were reviewed including pre‐FNA requirements, training specifications, criteria for the selection of patients to undergo FNA, diagnostic categories and criteria, ancillary testing and post‐FNA follow‐up and treatment options. A summation of conclusions covering three of these topics, followed by a question and answer session, was subsequently presented at the 35th European Congress of Cytology (ECC) in Lisbon, Portugal in September of 2009. At the ECC, the findings of the NCI committee proposals regarding the indications for FNA of thyroid nodules, diagnostic categories and criteria, and post‐FNA options for follow‐up and treatment were discussed. Herein we review the presentations given at that conference.     

Effects of beta-lactam antibiotics on eukaryotic cells

A symposium on effects of beta-lactam antibiotics on eukaryotic cells was held as part of the 9th International Congress of Infectious and Parasitic Diseases (Munich, Germany, July 1986). This symposium provided an opportunity to review recent work on the effect of beta-lactam structures on mammalian cells in culture and to speculate on possible clinical implications. This paper is a comment on the subject matter covered by the symposium papers which follow.Abbreviations Ara-C cytosine arabinoside - BLA beta-lactam antibiotic     

Form and Function in the Xenarthra–an Introduction to the Symposium Proceedings Volume

This special issue of the Journal of Mammalian Evolution represents the proceedings from a symposium held in conjunction with the 9th International Congress of Vertebrate Morphology (ICVM IX, Punta del Este, Uruguay, July 29, 2010), and entitled “Form and Function in the Xenarthra.” This symposium was the third on xenarthran biology to be presented in association with the ICVM meetings. In this brief introduction to the symposium proceedings, we plan to discuss the justification for the symposium, to provide a brief history of previous symposia and their results, and to introduce the contents of the present volume.     

Trench connection

'Trench Connection' was the first international symposium focusing primarily on the hadal zone (depths greater than 6000 m). It was held at the University of Tokyo's Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute in November 2010. The symposium was successful in having attracted an international collective of scientists and engineers to discuss the latest developments in the exploration and understanding of the deepest environments on Earth. The symposium sessions were categorized into three themes: (i) new deep-submergence technology; (ii) trench ecology and evolution; and (iii) the physical environment. Recent technological developments have overcome the challenges of accessing the extreme depths, which have in turn prompted an international renewed interest in researching physical and biological aspects of the hadal ecosystems. This bringing together of international participants from different disciplines led to healthy discussions throughout the symposium, providing potential opportunities and realizations of where the future of unravelling hadal ecology lies. Hadal science is still at relatively rudimentary levels compared with those of shallower marine environments; however, it became apparent at the symposium that it is now an ever-expanding scientific field.     

G6PD deficiency, diet, and adaptation to malaria

The symposium on “G6PD Deficiency, Diet, and Adaptation to Malaria” was held in Cortona, Italy on July 3,4,5 1995 under the auspices of the Congress of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES). The Congress had actually taken place in Florence in April 1995, and the G6PD symposium was a satellite session to that meeting. Professor Brunetto Chiarelli, of the Istituto di Antropologia at the University of Florence, was the program chairman for the Congress. The general theme of the Congress was “Biodemography and Human Evolution,” and the G6PD symposium was consistent with this topic. In its broadest sense the symposium focused on biocultural factors which have influenced evolution at the G6PD locus and the pattern of population variation that has consequently emerged in this genetic system. A more specific sub-theme, reflected in the title of the symposium, was the interaction between dietary factors and the G6PD locus in providing antimalarial protection to human populations.     

Cofactors in and as posttranslational protein modifications

A symposium at the FASEB meeting in Las Vegas in May 1988 will be devoted to the role of cofactors (vitamins, coenzymes, prosthetic groups) in and as posttranslational protein modifications; the symposium is part of a thematic focus on metabolic regulation. In planning the symposium, we decided to consider metabolic regulation in its broadest context, which should include both the short-term activity modulations in the life of contemporary organisms and the adaptations of special molecular strategies over evolutionary time. We further decided to focus the symposium context on the involvement of cofactors both as catalytic participants in and as substrates or end products of posttranslational modifications. As a preview of the actual symposium, the present discussion is an attempt to enumerate cases of cofactor involvement in these different categories: 1) essential nutrients as participants in posttranslational modifications; 2) cofactors as donor substrates in reversible, regulatory modifications; and 3) cofactor incorporation or generation as covalent constituents of proteins. The actual symposium topics are taken from category 1: vitamin C and protein hydroxylation (K. I. Karivikkio) and vitamin K and protein carboxylation (J. W. Suttie) and category 3: biotinylation (H. G. Wood), phycobiliproteins (A. Glazer), and pyruvoyl enzymes (W. Dowhan).     

Past, present and future of ACE inhibitors

This satellite symposium was organised and sponsored by Servier. The aim of the symposium was to evaluate the past 30 years of experience with and the future of angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors. The session was chaired by R. Ferrari (Ferrara, Italy) and M. Tendera (Katowice, Poland).     

自然资本科学和决策实践:宜居城市和可持续发展——2018年自然资本项目年会述评

2018年自然资本项目年会(Natural Capital Project Symposium)于3月19日至22日在美国斯坦福大学举行。自然资本项目由美国斯坦福大学、世界自然基金会和大自然保护协会发起,旨在推进将科学和融入自然多元价值的实践纳入管理决策过程。本次会议正式邀请并宣布中国科学院生态环境研究中心为项目伙伴。会议吸引了来自33个国家363名政府工作人员、非政府组织成员、企业家和专家学者参加。本届年会的两大主题是宜居城市和可持续发展。会议包含9个大会主题报告和3个平行分会场,平行分会场归纳为宜居城市、可持续发展、淡水和流域管理、海岸带恢复力、投资标准化制定、模型培训和探索等六个方面;会议同时设有专题讨论和小组研讨、InVEST模型培训和讨论、墙报展示等。会议推进了生态系统服务的科学发展和实践应用,将自然资本纳入科学决策体系,在全球范围内推动科学和决策的融合、促进可持续发展。     

Book review

Book reviewed in this article. Ecological Processes in Coastal Environments The first European ecological symposium and the 19th symposium of the British Ecological Society, Norwich, 12–16 September 1977 R. L. Jefferies and A. J. Davy     

全国首次植物病原真菌毒素研讨会

<正> 全国首次植物病原真菌毒素研讨会于1991年4月13—17日在南京农业大学召开,参加的单位有复旦大学、北京农业大学、江苏省农科院、沈阳农业大学、河北农业大学和南京农业大学等农业大专院校、农业科研单位和综合性大学21个单位的45位正式代表。我国著名植病学家方中达教授和植病生理学家复旦大学薛应龙教授自始至终到会指导。会议期间特邀请了国际毒素研究中心日本名古屋大学     

Purinergic Receptors,Past and Future (Closing Remarks)

Abstract

At the end of a symposium, it is useful to look back, both at the symposium itself and the developments that led up to the symposium. In this spirit, I thought it would be appropriate to tell the story of how I first became interested in purinergic receptors. I am recounting this story not because I believe that my audience has a burning interest in the history of my intellectual development, but rather because it illustrates the power of ideas.     

The future of interventional therapy in cardiology

This satellite symposium was organised and sponsored by Siemens AG Medical Solutions and chaired by P.J. de Feyter (Rotterdam, the Netherlands) and D.J. Pennell (London, UK). The purpose of this symposium was to discuss the current status and the future directions in interventional cardiology, with particular emphasis on the role of imaging in performing interventional procedures.     

Psychological Matters in the Symposium Cybernetics in the Service of Communism

The symposium Kibernetiku — na sluzhbu kommunizmu [Cybernetics in the Service of Communism J contains articles by Soviet experts on matters of application of modern cybernetics to the major fields of science and technology. The articles in this symposium are arranged in the following sections, a listing of which indicates the breadth of the problems covered: 1) The Gathering, Processing and Transmission of Information; 2) Cybernetics and Living Nature; 3) Cybernetics and the Humanities; 4) Cybernetics in Science and Technology. The symposium has a lengthy introduction by A. I. Berg titled "Cybernetics in the Service of Communism," which is programmatic in nature and contains an analysis of all the principal problems of cybernetics.     

Light,endocrine systems and cancer--a meeting report

The International Symposium "Light, Endocrine Systems and Cancer" was held on May 2-3 at Cologne University, Germany. The symposium was organized by Professor Claus Piekarski and Dr. Thomas C. Erren, Institute and Polyclinic for Occupational and Social Medicine. The main goal of the symposium was to evaluate the epidemiological and experimental data on the effect of the exposure to light-at-night on cancer risk and to indicate the main directions of future research in the field. The symposium covered also the mechanisms and epidemiology of skin cancer which, however, are not included in the present summary.     

Exploring the diversity of the microbial world

Yale's Microbial Diversity Institute (MDI) comprises scientists who seek to understand the largely unknown microbial world. In the first MDI symposium at Yale's West Campus in October 2010, four speakers discussed their research in diverse fields within the microbial sciences. The highlights of the symposium are presented here along with an outlook on the future of the MDI.     

Systems biology: new institute and applications

The Yale Systems Biology Institute (YSBI) sponsored its first symposium at the university's West Campus in October 2010. The symposium served to provide Yale's scientific community with a glimpse into the wide range of research at the forefront of this interdisciplinary field. YSBI was conceived less than a year ago, and the event was the perfect forum for its debut, both at Yale and in the U.S. scientific community. This article includes a brief overview of the different topics presented at the symposium, followed by a discussion of the advantages and challenges of practical application of systems biology.     

Erratum

The Table of Contents in the January 1997 issue, AJPA 102:1, did not differentiate between articles published as part of an edited symposium, and other research papers published in that issue. Five of the first six articles (pp. 1-77) in volume 102:1 were originally presented at the 63rd AAPA annual meeting (1994) as part of a symposium entitled “Social and Political-Economic Perspectives in Biological Anthropology.” The organizers of the symposium, and its counterpart published in AJPA 102:1, were T.L. Leatherman and A.H. Goodman.     

Delivery of Functionality in Complex Food Systems: Physically Inspired Approaches from Nanoscale to Microscale,Wageningen 18–21 October 2009

The Wageningen Delivery of Functionality symposium covered all aspects involved with food structural design to arrive at high-quality foods which meet demanding customer expectations and regulatory requirements. The symposium integrated aspects from the structural organization of foods at molecular and supramolecular scales to dedicated techniques required to describe and visualize such structures, the gastro-intestinal events and how to model these in a laboratory setting, and finally the impact those food structures and ingredients have on the consumer’s physiology and on the human perception. As an interdisciplinary platform, bringing together more than 160 researchers from academia and industry, the symposium meanwhile fulfills an important role in the food science community.     

Integration of structural and functional genomics

This paper introduces a special issue of Animal Genetics , which is devoted to the recent symposium held at Iowa State University entitled 'Integration of Structural and Functional Genomics'. We describe issues and needs that confront the animal genomics community, and describe how this symposium was structured to address these issues by improving communication and collaboration across species and disciplines. The session topics and oral presentations are briefly described for all invited speakers.     

Introduction to the Symposium: Ontogenetic Strategies of Invertebrates in Aquatic Environments

This symposium presents different ecological and physiologicalstrategies used by invertebrates to successfully adapt to aquaticenvironments. Adaptation has been studied mainly in adult animals,but the papers comprising the symposium emphasize ontogeneticstrategies, starting from the principle that natural selectionacts on all stages of development. Adaptive strategies may thusdiffer strikingly between developmental stages of the same organism.Invertebrates offer a wide array of ecophysiological modelsfor study, and these are exemplified by the contributions tothe symposium, which are briefly summarized. Future researchin the field will 1, expand the number of models for comparativepurposes; 2, examine the strategies, not only of larvae andjuveniles, but also of embryos, eggs and reproductive cells;and 3, investigate the genetic basis of ontogenetic strategies.