CSHL Conference on Molecular Genetics of Bacteria and Phage to be held August 2004 at the University of Wisconsin in Madison

细菌和噬菌体分子遗传学会议，传统上在冷泉港举行，现在在麦迪逊的威斯康星州大学和冷泉港实验室轮流举行，是展示原核分子遗传学新成果的中心论坛。 大约有200-400名与会者代表世界各地的实验室参加，大多数人都发表了简短的演讲或海报。 它的广泛性使其成为这个科学专业化时代信息交流的一个重要焦点。 涵盖的主题包括细菌复制、重组、修复、转座、转录、基因表达控制、翻译、信号传导、热休克、蛋白质折叠和分泌、细胞发育和分裂以及发病机制等方面的基础工作。 对于许多研究生和博士后研究员来说，这是他们有机会发言的第一次大型会议。 由于其高度互动的性质，会议为这些年轻科学家提供了一个重要的机会，让他们与他们从文献中认识的资深科学家会面和交谈。 鉴于出席会议的学生人数众多，所涉主题多样，每次会议都邀请知名科学家主持。 这加强了会议，因为每位主席都作了简短的介绍，其中他或她总结了将要讨论的领域的一些关键方面，并为会谈将要解决的主要问题提供了一个概念框架。 作为一个额外的好处，在会议通知中公布明智选择的主席和会议主题，鼓励提交令人兴奋的新领域的摘要，并刺激更多的支持者出席会议

The Molecular Genetics of Bacteria and Phages Conference, traditionally held at Cold Spring Harbor and now being held in alternate years at the University of Wisconsin in Madison and at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, is a central forum for the presentation of new results in prokaryotic molecular genetics. On the order of 200-400 participants attend, representing laboratories throughout the world, and most present either short talks or posters. Its breadth makes it an important focus for the exchange of information in this era of scientific specialization. Topics covered include fundamental work on bacterial replication, recombination, repair, transposition, transcription, control of gene expression, translation, signalling, heat shock, protein folding and secretion, cell development and division, and pathogenesis. For many graduate students and postdoctoral fellows, this is the first large meeting at which they have an opportunity to speak. Due to its highly interactive nature, the meeting provides an important opportunity for these young scientists to meet and talk to the senior scientists they know from the literature. In response to the large numbers of students who attend the meeting and the diversity of topics covered, established and distinguished scientists are invited to chair each session. This strengthens the meeting because each chairperson gives a short introduction in which he or she summarizes some of the key facets of the field to be covered and provides a conceptual framework for the major questions that the talks will address. As an additional benefit, publicizing the judiciously chosen chairpeople and session topics in announcements of the meeting, encourages the submission of abstracts in exciting new areas and stimulates attendance by a larger constituency