Gordon Research Conferences: Biology of Spirochetes, January 18-23, 1998, Ventura, California

戈登研究会议：螺旋体生物学，1998 年 1 月 18-23 日，加利福尼亚州文图拉

• 批准号: 9726956
• 负责人: Sheila Lukehart
• 金额: $ 0.5万
• 依托单位: Gordon Research Conferences
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1998
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1998-01-15 至 1998-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9726956&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Gordon; Research; Conferences; Biology; Spirochetes

Lukehart 9726956 The third Gordon Research Conference on Biology of the Spirochetes is being held in January, 1998. This conference is the only ongoing international meeting devoted to basic research on spirochetes, which is a separate phylum of the Bacteria. These organisms have a unique but common overall structure and mode of motility. There are both free living spirochetes and also those associated with parasitism of arthropod hosts including termites and ticks, and also mammals. Some species have been found to augment degradation of polymers such as cellulose. The free living organisms are ubiquitous and are found in both fresh and salt water, and some species among the largest prokaryotic organisms yet described. Many of these organisms are very difficult to study because of their inability to be cultivated in vitro and because of the lack of a facile genetic system for creating mutants. Nonetheless, this is one of the most rapidly growing areas in general microbiology and genomic research. The first two Gordon Research Conferences were held in 1994 and 1996; both were attended to the capacity allowed by the Gordon Conference guidelines, and both were judged by the participants to be among the most useful and stimulating meetings ever attended. The 1998 conference, which is anticipated to have approximately 135 attendees, will agin provide a forum for scientists, including faculty, graduate students, and postdoctoral fellows from the United States and abroad, to discuss recent developments and ideas regarding the biology of the spirochetes funds are provided to support participation by beginning investigators.

Lukehart 9726956 第三届戈登螺旋体生物学研究会议将于 1998 年 1 月举行。这次会议是唯一正在进行的致力于螺旋体基础研究的国际会议，螺旋体是细菌的一个独立门。 这些生物体具有独特但共同的整体结构和运动方式。 既有自由生活的螺旋体，也有与节肢动物宿主（包括白蚁和蜱虫）以及哺乳动物寄生相关的螺旋体。 已发现某些物质会增强聚合物（例如纤维素）的降解。 这种自由生物体无处不在，在淡水和咸水中都有发现，其中一些物种是迄今为止描述的最大的原核生物体。 许多这些生物体很难研究，因为它们无法在体外培养，并且缺乏创建突变体的简便遗传系统。 尽管如此，这是一般微生物学和基因组研究中增长最快的领域之一。 前两次戈登研究会议分别于 1994 年和 1996 年举行；这两场会议的出席人数均符合戈登会议准则所允许的规模，与会者都认为这两场会议是有史以来最有用、最激动人心的会议之一。 1998 年的会议预计将有大约 135 名与会者，并将再次为科学家（包括来自美国和国外的教师、研究生和博士后研究员）提供一个论坛，讨论有关螺旋体生物学的最新进展和想法，并提供资金以支持初级研究人员的参与。