Biofilms 2000, being held in Big Sky, Montana

提供资金支持年轻的外国和美国科学家参加由美国微生物学学会主办的题为“2000年生物膜”的会议。这次会议于2000年夏天在蒙大拿州的大天空度假村举行，汇集了来自世界各地的细菌生物膜领域的研究人员。 1996年在犹他州雪鸟举行的一次类似的ASM会议吸引了来自42个国家的360名与会者，其特点是有目的地吸收了年轻的研究人员、博士后研究员和学生，其中大多数来自美国和英国。雪鸟会议被广泛认为定义了生物膜微生物学的新兴领域，并且在不同基础学科的人们之间建立了许多重要的联系，这些人都对生物膜有着浓厚的兴趣。由于对这一领域的兴趣增加，预计这次会议将吸引更多的代表。 基质封闭的生物膜负责工业和环境中细菌的所有有益（污水处理）和有害（腐蚀，结垢）影响。 生物膜2000包括一个全天的研讨会，教授在这一领域的研究所需的特殊生物膜方法，和一个全天的研讨会上发展一个特殊的跨学科的科学家干部谁将进行研究，在生物膜的研究。

Funding is provided to support the participation of young foreign and US scientists in a meeting entitled 'Biofilms 2000', that is being sponsored by the American Society for Microbiology (ASM). This meeting, held at the Big Sky Resort in Montana during the summer of 2000, brings together researchers in the field of bacterial biofilms from all over the world. A similar ASM conference, in Snowbird, Utah in 1996, drew 360 participants from 42 countries and was characterized by the purposeful inclusion of young investigators, postdoctoral fellows and students, mostly from the US and UK. The Snowbird meeting is widely regarded as having defined the emerging field of Biofilm Microbiology, and many important connections were made between people in different basic disciplines who all share a keen and urgent interest in biofilms. Because of the increased interest in the field, this meeting is expected to draw even more delegates. Matrix enclosed biofilms are responsible for all of the beneficial (sewage treatment) and deleterious (corrosion, fouling) effects of bacteria in industry and in the environment. Biofilms 2000 includes a full day workshop to teach the special biofilm methods necessary for research in this area, and a full day symposium on the development of a special interdisciplinary cadre of scientists who will carry research forward in studies of biofilms.