Conference: 2004 Sensory Transduction in Microorganisms Gordon Conference to be held in Ventura, California

目前，在美国、欧洲、日本、韩国和以色列的大量实验室中，对微生物对环境变化的感知和反应机制的研究非常活跃。广泛的真核生物和原核物种正在研究它们对化学变化、光和氧化还原信号以及细胞间信号的感知，从而导致运动行为、基因表达或发育的变化。在过去的几年中，微生物信号转导可以在基础水平上为探测传感和运动提供有用的模型，从而允许开发一种模型来感知从传感蛋白的构象变化到细胞群体行为的反应。本次会议的中心目标是汇集研究者使用广泛的方法和不同的系统来比较数据，分享想法和方法，并寻求理解潜在的感官反应的基本原理。该会议一直鼓励专业知识和资历的广泛参与（从研究生到高级教授），从而产生了活力和广泛的讨论，促进了合作和新方法的发展。

Research into the mechanisms involved in the sensing and responses of microorganisms to changes in their environment is currently very active in a large number of laboratories in the U.S., Europe, Japan, Korea and Israel. A wide range of eukaryotic and prokaryotic species are being studied with regard to their sensing of chemical changes, light and redox signals and intercellular signaling, leading either to changes in motile behavior, gene expression or development. It has become apparent over the past few years that microbial signal transduction can provide useful models for probing sensing and motility at a fundamental level, allowing the development of a model for sensing a response from the conformational change of a sensory protein through to the behavior of a population of cells. The central goal of this conference is to bring together investigators using a wide range of approaches and different systems to compare data, share ideas and approaches and seek to understand the fundamental principles underlying sensory responses. This conference has always encouraged a broad participation in expertise and in seniority (from graduate students to senior professors), resulting in a vitality and a breadth of discussion that has fostered the development of collaborations and new approaches.