Sixth International Wolbachia Conference: An interactive, interdisciplinary conference addressing the frontiers of bacterial symbiosis in invertebrates,Monterey,CA June 9-14,2010

智力上的优点。沃尔巴克氏体是生活在无脊椎动物细胞内的细菌，从母亲传给后代，并与节肢动物和线虫宿主共享各种关系。作为一种“生殖操纵者”，沃尔巴克氏体通过增强其传播的方法干扰宿主生殖。其他沃尔巴克氏体是互利共生体或病原体，是控制昆虫传播的人类疾病的目标。 这些共生体从根本上改变了宿主的生态和进化轨迹。在这里，研究人员将使用项目资金，以支持学生和博士后在第六届国际沃尔巴克氏体会议，将于2010年6月9日至14日在加州蒙特雷阿西洛马会议中心举行的旅行和参与。 会议规模适中（75-125人），国际性，多学科，包括基因组学家，细胞生物学家，生态学家，进化生物学家和系统学家。在沃尔巴克氏体会议上，交流思想，发起或维持合作，学生找到博士后机会，博士后同事建立他们获得永久职位所需的专业网络。更广泛的影响。虽然两年一度的会议已经举行了五次，但没有一次是在美国大陆举行的。这次会议将吸引美国学生和博士后助理谁以前的会议一直无法访问。 学生和博士后助理，包括妇女和代表性不足的群体，将被招募参加会议，通过会议传单，邮件列表和口口相传。 此外，会议将包括传播研究成果和科学界以外的教育影响。 暑期学生在少数民族访问计划的本科生（MARC）将参加一天的会谈，并与与会者互动。 此外，利用该项目提供的旅费，将邀请一位有经验的教师在会议上发言和参加会议。 将通过在一份开放式在线期刊上发表演讲摘要，加强向其他科学家传播会议成果。

Intellectual merit. Wolbachia are bacteria that live within cells of invertebrates, are transmitted from mother to offspring, and share a variety of relationships with their arthropod and nematode hosts. As a "reproductive manipulator," Wolbachia interferes with host reproduction by methods that enhance its transmission. Other Wolbachia are mutualists or pathogens that are targets for the control of insect-vectored human disease. These symbionts fundamentally change the ecology and evolutionary trajectory of their hosts. Here the investigator will use project funds to support the travel and participation of students and postdoctoral associates at the Sixth International Wolbachia Conference, to be held at Asilomar Conference Center, Monterey, CA, June 9-14, 2010. The conference is moderate in size (75-125), international, and multidisciplinary, including genomicists, cell biologists, ecologists, evolutionary biologists and systematists. At Wolbachia conferences, ideas are exchanged, collaborations are initiated or maintained, students find postdoctoral opportunities, and postdoctoral associates establish the professional network they need to attain a permanent position. Broader impacts. Although the biennial conference has been held five times already, none have been held within the continental United States. This conference will attract American students and postdoctoral associates for whom previous meetings have been inaccessible. Students and postdoctoral associates, including women and underrepresented groups, will be recruited to attend the meeting via flyers at meetings, listservs and word of mouth. Further, the conference will include dissemination of research results and educational impacts beyond the scientific community. Summer students in a minority access program for undergraduates (MARC) will attend a day of talks, and interact with conference participants. Further, with the travel funds provided by this project, a teacher with experience implementing a high school science curriculum module featuring Wolbachia will be invited to speak and participate in the meeting. Dissemination of the meeting results to other scientists will be enhanced by the publication of presentation abstracts in an open-access online journal.