Conference: 2013 Molecular Genetics of Bacteria and Phages: August 6-10, 2013, University of Wisconsin, Madison

智力优势：该项目将为需要资金参加2013年细菌和噬菌体分子遗传学会议的研究生、博士后研究员和初级调查人员提供注册奖励，该会议将于2013年8月6日至10日在威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校举行。申请者将通过在科学期刊上发布广告和将电子邮件直接发送到包括过去和可能参加会议的人的广泛电子邮件列表中进行招聘。该广告将收件人引导至会议网站(http://www.union.wisc.edu/phages/index.html)，，该网站载有申请注册奖的说明。所有注册奖项的申请者都需要提交一份摘要，用于口头或海报演示，以及一封概述经济需要的信件。申请和摘要由会议组织者审查，他们根据科学价值和资金需求颁发奖项。细菌和噬菌体的分子遗传学会议是由Delbruck、Luria、Hershey和他的同事在20世纪40年代组织的最初的“噬菌体会议”的直接后代，因此是专注于原核分子生物学的最古老的科学会议。虽然多年来会议的重点有所扩大，但它仍然致力于以问题为导向的哲学和创立会议的物理学家、化学家和微生物学家的跨学科性质。会议为介绍和讨论现代原核生物分子生物学的最新研究成果和技术进展提供了一个论坛。这是许多研究细菌和噬菌体的实验室的主要科学会议；平均出席人数超过325人。会议的一个中心方面和主要吸引力是所提出的研究的广度和跨学科重点。2013年的会议将整合从基础噬菌体遗传学到基因组使能生物学、从原子水平结构功能分析到微生物细胞生物学、从单分子生物化学到病毒自组装以及从宿主相互作用到生态学和进化的各种会议。研究领域的多样性反映在所调查的生物的多样性上，包括模式生物以及与环境有关的细菌和噬菌体。聚集采取不同方法解决与微生物相关的问题的研究人员的重要性是优先事项，特别是那些通过使用基因组使能的方法并将计算生物学与实验相结合来改变微生物学的研究人员。更广泛的影响：会议的一个主要目标是为研究生、博士后研究员和其他年轻科学家提供广泛的教育经验，他们占会议与会者的一半以上。参加这次会议的研究生和博士后几乎都是张贴海报或口头陈述。这是为数不多的开放项目会议之一，大多数口头陈述都是从提交的摘要中挑选出来的，所有充满活力的海报会议都在整个会议上进行。因此，实际进行研究的人给出了大部分的陈述。会议的另一个目标是让一群不同的科学家担任会议主席和主持人。此外，还邀请顶尖科学家对9个科学会议进行全面介绍，并就自己的工作进行简短的演讲。会议主席既有老牌高级调查员，也有杰出的新兴初级调查员。主讲人将是一位杰出的跨学科科学家。会议领导人和主旨发言人将在会议的大部分时间留在现场。因此，科学专家总是在听众中，这确保了高科学标准和演讲结束时批判性但支持性的提问和评论。研究生、博士后研究员、初级和高级教职员工的密切联系为科学和教育互动创造了独特的氛围。

Intellectual Merit:This project will fund registration awards for graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and junior investigators who require funding to attend the 2013 Molecular Genetics of Bacteria and Phages Conference to be held at the University of Wisconsin, Madison from August 6-10, 2013. Applicants will be recruited by advertisements in scientific journals and direct emails to a broad email list that includes past and probable conference attendees. The advertisement directs the recipient to the conference web site (http://www.union.wisc.edu/phages/index.html), which contains instructions for applying for a registration award. All applicants for the registration awards are required to submit an abstract for an oral or poster presentation and a letter outlining financial need. The applications and abstracts are reviewed by the conference organizers, who make awards on the basis of scientific merit and financial need. The Molecular Genetics of Bacteria and Phages conference is the direct descendent of the original 'phage meetings' organized by Delbruck, Luria, Hershey, and colleagues in the 1940s, and thus is the oldest scientific gathering focused on prokaryotic molecular biology. While the focus of the meeting has expanded over the years, it still remains dedicated to the problem-oriented philosophy and cross-disciplinary nature of the physicists, chemists, and microbiologists who founded the meeting. The conference provides a forum for the presentation and discussion of the latest research findings and technical advances in modern prokaryotic molecular biology. It is the primary scientific meeting for many laboratories working with bacteria and phage; the average attendance is over 325. A central aspect and major attraction of the meeting is the breadth and interdisciplinary emphasis of the research presented. The 2013 meeting will integrate sessions ranging from basic phage genetics to genome enabled biology, from atomic level structure-function analyses to microbial cell biology, from single-molecule biochemistry to viral self-assembly, and from host interactions to ecology and evolution. The diversity of research areas is mirrored by the diversity of organisms investigated, including model organisms as well as environmentally relevant bacteria and phages. The importance of assembling researchers who take diverse approaches to solving problems of relevance to microbes is a priority, particularly those that are transforming microbiology by using genome enabled approaches and integrating computational biology with experiments. Broader Impacts:A key objective of the meeting is to provide a broad educational experience for graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and other young scientists who constitute over half of the attendees of the meeting. Nearly all the graduate students and postdoctoral fellows attending this meeting give a poster or oral presentation. It is one of the few remaining open-program meetings, where the majority of the oral presentations are selected from submitted abstracts and all of the vibrant poster sessions run for the entire meeting. Consequently, the people actually performing the research give most of the presentations. Another goal of the meeting is to have a diverse group of scientists as session chairs and presenters. In addition, leading scientists are invited to present comprehensive introductions to the 9 scientific sessions and short talks on their own works. The session chairs represent a mixture of established senior investigators and prominent emerging junior investigators. The keynote speaker will be a distinguished interdisciplinary scientist. The session leaders and keynote speaker remain on site for the majority of the meeting. As such, scientific experts are always in the audience, which ensures high scientific standards and critical yet supportive questioning and commentary at the conclusion of talks. The close proximity of graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and junior and senior faculty generates a unique atmosphere for scientific and educational interactions.