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)年度会议的目标是促进在微生物生理学广泛领域工作的知名研究人员、博士后研究员和研究生之间的交流。由C.B.van Niel在20世纪40年代开始为他在西海岸的同事举办，现在参与者来自加拿大、美国中西部和东海岸。这是北美为数不多的将重点放在微生物生理学上的会议之一，主要但不是唯一的重点是原核微生物的生理学。会议特别为研究生和博士后研究员提供了一个论坛，利用从模型生物到与病原和环境微生物学特别相关的实验系统的各种实验系统，介绍和讨论他们的研究项目的结果。自1963年以来，会议一直在12月中旬的一个周末在加利福尼亚州太平洋格罗夫的阿西洛玛会议中心举行。年会在8月和9月通过直接邮寄和在WCBP网站(http://wcbacterialphysiologists.ucdavis.edu).上发布宣布该网站还载有这次会议的简要历史，以及自1999年以来历次会议的完整日程。会议由四次正式会议(星期五晚上、星期六上午和晚上以及星期日上午)和四次非正式会议(星期五下午和深夜、星期六下午和深夜)组成。四个正式课程中的每一个都以45分钟的概述讲座开始。概述讲座由基因技术公司赞助，并被确定为约翰·英格拉汉姆在微生物生理学方面的讲座。约翰·英格拉汉姆讲师可能是首席研究员、博士后研究员或研究生。他们是由会议联席主任根据科学价值和当前与微生物生理学家相关的备受瞩目的研究主题来选择的。概述课程之后是15分钟或20分钟的论文。通常，7-9篇和5-7篇论文分别安排在上午和晚上的会议上，取决于提交的摘要数量。任何提交摘要的研究生都没有机会提出她/他的数据和结论。注册费包括住宿、食物、会议室费用和非正式会议的支助费用。研究生和所有其他参与者的注册费之间的差额传统上是保持不变的。NSF的资金将用于维持研究生至少20%的低注册费。