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

目前，在美国的大量实验室中，对微生物对其环境变化的感知和响应所涉及的机制的研究非常活跃，欧洲、日本、韩国和以色列。广泛的真核生物和原核生物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提供用于在基础水平上探测传感和运动的有用模型，这使得能够开发用于传感从感觉蛋白的构象变化到细胞群体的行为的响应的模型。本次会议的中心目标是汇集研究人员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，并寻求理解感官反应的基本原则。该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，从而产生了促进合作和新方法发展的讨论活力和广度。

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.