Conference on Priorities in Bacterial Diversity Research; East Lansing, MI; June, 1992

将召开微生物分类学家和生态学家会议，审议评估和了解细菌生物多样性的问题。这次会议的一个主要目标是确定细菌多样性研究需求的优先事项。要讨论的主题包括从自然生境恢复细菌的困难、编制已知物种清单的挑战、将新物种从极端和偏远的生境中分离出来、细菌的生物地理学以及保护新的生境及其原核生物群。与会者将讨论如何分析和传播有关新物种特征的数据。会议的建议将发表在对这一领域感兴趣的科学家看到的国际期刊上。

A conference of microbial taxonomists and ecologists will be held to consider the problems of assessing and understanding the biodiversity of bacteria. A major goal of the conference is to set priorities on the research needs in bacterial diversity. Topics to be addressed include the difficulties of recovering bacteria from natural habitats, the challenges of developing an inventory of known species, the isolation of new species from extreme and remote habitats, the biogeography of bacteria, and the preservation of novel habitats, and their procaryobiota. The conferees will discuss how data on the characteristics of new species should be analyzed and disseminated. The recommendations from the conference will be published in international journals seen by scientists with an interest in this field.