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。人们正在研究广泛的真核和原核生物对化学变化、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。在过去的几年里，微生物信号转导已经变得很明显，它可以为在基础水平上探测感知和运动性提供有用的模型，从而允许开发一种模型来感知从感觉蛋白质的构象变化到一群细胞的行为的反应。这次会议的中心目标是将使用各种方法和不同系统的研究人员聚集在一起，比较数据，分享想法和方法，并寻求了解潜在的感觉反应的基本原理。这次会议一直鼓励专业知识和资历(从研究生到高级教授)的广泛参与，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.