Conference: 2012 Microbial Stress Response Gordon Research Conference to be held July 20-25, 2012 in South Hadley, MA

学术价值：2012年会议将继续其传统，提高科学家的科学知识和技术能力，他们正在研究孤立微生物和微生物群落的应激反应。更具体地说，2012年会议强调了与网络和监管集群优先事项一致的两个新方向。首先，会议重点关注从单细胞到多细胞到微生物-宿主相互作用系统的复杂性尺度上的压力反应生物学的综合视角。第二，组织者共同努力，包括计算和系统水平的方法来研究微生物的压力生物学。更广泛的影响会议为年轻的研究人员提供了许多非正式的机会，与高级研究人员进行互动。学生和初级科学家将根据他们提交的摘要被选中进行演讲。将特别努力征聘代表性不足的少数群体和来自不同地理区域的与会者。组织委员会的参与也很广泛，两名主席中有一名是女性。在32名受邀并确认的发言者/讨论领导人中，有11人是女性，2人是代表性不足的少数群体成员。

Intellectual Merit:The 2012 conference will continue its tradition of improving the scientific knowledge and technical capability of scientists who are studying stress responses of isolated microbes and microbial communities. More specifically, the 2012 conference emphasizes two new direction that are consistent with the Networks and Regulation cluster priorities. First, the conference focuses on an integrated perspective of stress response biology across scales of complexity from single to multicellular to microbe-host interaction systems. Second, the organizers make a concerted effort to include computational and systems-levelapproaches to study stress biology in microbes.Broader ImpactsThe meeting offers numerous informal opportunities for young investigators to interact with senior researchers. Students and junior scientists will be selected for presentations based on their submitted abstracts. A particular effort will be made to recruit underrepresented minorities and participants from diverse geographical regions. Diverse participation is reflected also in the organizing committee with one of the two chairs being a female. Eleven of 32 invited and confirmed speakers/discussion leaders are females and two are members of an under-represented minority group.