Conference: Bacterial Locomotion and Signal Transduction V to be held in Cuernavaca, Mexico, January 16-21, 1999

这次会议预计将有200-250人参加，将集中讨论几个细菌系统中传感和反应的分子机制。会议形式旨在促进来自美国和海外的研究人员对最近的发展和想法进行广泛的讨论。该计划将包括大约60个口头陈述和100张海报，使在这个快速发展的领域工作的几乎所有实验室都能展示他们的关键发现。会议经费的很大一部分将用于支付研究生与会者的旅费和注册费。科学会议将比较各种原核生物的感觉和运动系统。演讲将集中在信号转导途径中的每个基本步骤：(A)通过化学和光受体的跨膜信号及其共价修饰的适应，(B)通过细胞内磷酸继电器级联的信号传递，(C)对细胞运动、基因表达和发育的感觉控制，以及(D)细胞运动的机制。细菌感觉系统在微生物生态学和致病机制中具有重要的作用，并为理解真核生物中的类似信号系统提供了有用的模型。这一系列会议，其中这是第五次两年一次的会议，已成为该领域研究人员介绍当前发现和讨论细菌传感和运动的新概念的主要论坛。将出版一份会议纪要，以便向其他人提供该领域目前状况的一个易于查阅的概览。

This conference, which is expected to have 200-250 participants, will focus on the molecular mechanisms of sensing and response in several bacterial systems. The meeting format is designed to foster extensive discussions of recent developments and ideas among researchers from the United States and abroad. The program will include approximately 60 oral presentations and 100 posters, allowing virtually all laboratories working in this rapidly moving field to present their key findings. A significant portion of conference funds will be used to cover the travel and registration expenses of graduate student participants. Scientific sessions will compare the sensory and locomotor systems of a variety of prokaryotes. Presentations will focus on each fundamental step in the signal transduction pathways: (a) transmembrane signaling by chemo- and photo-receptors and their adaptation by covalent modifications, (b) signal transmission by intracellular phosphorelay cascades, (c) sensory control of cellular motility, gene expression and development, and (d) the mechanics of cell motility. Bacterial sensory systems have important roles in microbial ecology and pathogenesis, and provide useful models for understanding analogous signaling systems in eukaryotes. This series of conferences, of which this is the fifth biennial meeting, has become the principal forum for investigators in the field to present current findings and to discuss emerging concepts of bacterial sensing and motility. A summary of the conference will be published to provide a readily accessible overview of the present state of the field to others.