Conference: Annual Meetings of the West Coast Bacterial Physiologists to be held on the West Coast of the USA in mid December

会议：西海岸细菌生理学家年会将于 12 月中旬在美国西海岸举行

• 批准号: 0750212
• 负责人: John Meeks
• 金额: $ 2.5万
• 依托单位: University of California-Davis
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-09-15 至 2012-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0750212&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Conference; Annual; Meetings; West; Coast

The objective of the annual meetings of the West Coast Bacterial Physiologists (WCBP) is to foster communication among established investigators, postdoctoral fellows and graduate students working in the broad area of microbial physiology. Started in the 1940.s by C. B. van Niel for his associates on the West Coast, participants now come from Canada, the Midwest and the East Coast of the USA. This is one of the few conferences in North America that have retained a focus on microbial physiology, with a primary, but not exclusive, emphasis on the physiology of prokaryotic microorganisms. The conference especially provides a forum for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows to present and discuss the results of their research projects utilizing experimental systems ranging from model organisms to those of specific relevance to pathogenic and environmental microbiology. The conference has been held continuously since 1963 over a weekend in the middle of December at the Asilomar Conference Center in Pacific Grove, California. The annual meeting is announced in August and September by direct mailings and by posting on the WCBP web site (http://wcbacterialphysiologists.ucdavis.edu). The web site also contains a brief history of the meeting as well as the complete program of past meetings dating back to 1999. The meeting is organized with four formal sessions (Friday evening, Saturday morning and evening, and Sunday morning) and four unstructured informal sessions (Friday afternoon and late evening, and Saturday afternoon and late evening). Each of the four formal sessions is initiated with a 45 min overview lecture. The overview lectures are endowed by the Genentech Corporation and identified as the John Ingraham Lectures in Microbial Physiology. The John Ingraham Lecturers may be principle investigators, postdoctoral fellows or graduate students. They are selected by the conference co-directors on the basis of scientific merit and current high profile research topic of relevance to microbial physiologists. The overview lectures are followed by offered papers of 15 or 20 min duration. Typically, 7-9 and 5-7 offered papers are scheduled for the morning and evening sessions, respectively, depending on the number of abstracts submitted. No graduate student submitting an abstract has been denied a chance to present her/his data and conclusions. A registration fee covers lodging, food, meeting room expenses and support for the informal sessions. A differential between the registration fees for graduate students and all other participants has traditionally been preserved. NSF funding will be applied to maintain at least a 20% lower registration fee for graduate students.

西海岸细菌生理学家（WCBP）的年度会议的目的是促进既定的研究人员，博士后研究员和在微生物生理领域工作的研究生之间的交流。参与者于1940年由C. B. Van Niel在西海岸的同事开始，现在来自加拿大，中西部和美国东海岸。这是北美为数不多的会议之一，他们保留了微生物生理学的关注，而主要但不是排他性的，强调了原生物生理的生理学。该会议特别为研究生和博士后研究员提供了一个论坛，以介绍和讨论其研究项目的结果，利用从模型生物到与致病和环境微生物学特定相关的实验系统的研究结果。自1963年12月中旬的一个周末以来，该会议一直在加利福尼亚太平洋格罗夫的Asilomar会议中心举行。年会在8月和9月通过直接邮件宣布，并在WCBP网站（http://wcbacterialphysiologists.ucdavis.edu）上发布。该网站还包含了会议的简短历史，以及过去的会议的完整节目，可追溯到1999年。会议由四个正式会议（星期五晚上，周六，周六早上和周日以及周日早上）和四次非结构化的非正式会议（星期五下午和下午，晚上和下午，以及周六下午和周六下午和傍晚）。四个正式会议中的每一个均以45分钟的概述讲座启动。 Genentech Corporation赋予了概述讲座，并确定为微生物生理学中的John Ingraham讲座。约翰·英格拉汉姆（John Ingraham）讲师可能是主要调查员，博士后研究员或研究生。它们是由会议联合指导者根据科学优点和当前与微生物生理学家相关的研究主题选择的。概述讲座之后是提供15或20分钟的论文。通常，根据提交的摘要数量，分别计划在早上和晚上提供7-9和5-7的论文。没有提交摘要的研究生被拒绝提供她/他的数据和结论的机会。注册费涵盖了住宿，食物，会议室费用以及对非正式会议的支持。传统上，保留了研究生和所有其他参与者的注册费之间的差异。 NSF资金将用于研究生至少降低20％的注册费。