2015 Applied and Environmental Microbiology Gordon Research Conference, July 11-17, 2015, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA

该奖项将支持学生和/或博士后参加戈登应用与环境微生物学研究会议(GRC-AEM)。会议的主要目标是介绍和讨论与微生物活动有关的新的基础研究成果。GRC-AEM秉持这样一种理念，即及早传播微生物生理学和新陈代谢方面的开创性研究有助于将基础知识转化为实际应用，为生态系统监测和管理、生物修复、生物能源生产和其他商业用途做出贡献。今年，GRC-AEM安排了一系列直接服务于国家和全球利益的主题，并与国家科学基金会提出的使命保持一致。该科学计划展示了对全球重大主题的关注，从海洋中的氮和磷循环到肠道微生物区系与人类健康之间的联系。根据演讲者的科学贡献以及他们对教育和社区宣传的持续承诺，邀请了演讲者。今年，GRC-AEM还推出了戈登应用与环境微生物学研究研讨会。戈登研究研讨会是GRC之前为期一天半的会议，旨在为研究生、博士后研究员和早期职业科学家提供机会，介绍和讨论最近在单细胞和生态系统层面上与环境影响和微生物的工业应用有关的研究成果。GRC-AEM一直是一个论坛，用于考虑导致新技术开发的关键甚至有争议的问题。会议的主题一直是多种多样的，涵盖微生物生命的代谢、生理和进化多样性，微生物在地球生命中扮演的复杂角色，以及微生物在生物技术、食品工业、农业和医药中的多种应用。该会议长期以来一直鼓励工业实验室、大专院校、研究基金会和政府实验室进行先进研究。今年的会议将涵盖多个研究领域，包括微生物生态生理学、分子生态学、基因组学、元基因组学和后基因组技术、微生物生命的进化多样性、微生物在地球生命中扮演的复杂角色，以及微生物在医药、农业、生物技术和食品工业中的许多重要应用。为了继续为介绍和讨论应用和环境微生物学方面的尖端科学提供一个论坛，会议将就各种微生物及其如何维持和保护我们的地球举行科学会议。将讨论微生物所在的环境以及微生物如何适应这些环境并相互作用；例如，陆地和海洋环境中碳、氮、硫和其他元素的生物地球化学循环，微生物与动物之间的相互作用，微生物与植物之间的相互作用，病毒与宿主的相互作用，微生物通信和信号传递。还将讨论微生物生态学、单细胞技术中新方法的重要性，以及基因组学和后基因组学在环境和工业微生物学中的应用。这些专题，连同关于利用微生物作为燃料和生物能源、作为天然产品来源以及在生物修复和生物催化过程中的使用的会议，都将为该领域现有的和新的研究人员提供平台，讨论环境微生物学的基础和应用方面的广泛方面，并为这一充满活力的研究领域的创新和推动提供动力。

This award will support student and/or postdoctoral participation in the Gordon Research Conference in Applied and Environmental Microbiology (GRC-AEM). The main goal of the conference is to present and discuss new, fundamental research findings related to the activities of microorganisms. The GRC-AEM embraces the philosophy that early dissemination of pioneering research into microbial physiology and metabolism facilitates translation of fundamental knowledge into practical application with contributions to ecosystems monitoring and management, bioremediation, bioenergy production and other commercial uses. This year the GRC-AEM has scheduled a series of topics that directly serve national and global interests and align with the missions put forth by the National Science Foundation. The scientific program illustrates attention given to globally significant themes ranging from nitrogen and phosphorous cycling in the ocean to the connection between gut microbiota and human health. Presenters were invited based upon their scientific contributions and their ongoing commitment to education and community outreach. This year the GRC-AEM also introduces the Gordon Research Seminar for Applied and Environmental Microbiology. The Gordon Research Seminar is a one and a half day meeting that precedes the GRC and is designed to provide graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and early career scientists the opportunity to present and discuss recent research findings on topics related to environmental impact and industrial application of microorganisms at the single cell and ecosystem level.The GRC-AEM has been a forum for the consideration of critical or even controversial issues that have led to the development of new technologies. The conference has always had a diverse theme of topics, covering the metabolic, physiologic and evolutionary diversity of microbial life, the complex roles that microorganisms play in life on Earth, and the multitude of applications of microbes in biotechnology, the food industry, agriculture, and medicine. The Conference has a long record of stimulating advanced research in industrial laboratories, colleges and universities, research foundations, and government laboratories.This year's conference will cover a diverse range of research areas including the ecophysiology of microbes, molecular ecology, genomics, metagenomics and postgenomic technologies, evolutionary diversity of microbial life, the complex roles that microorganisms play in life on Earth, and the many important applications of microbes in medicine, agriculture, biotechnology and the food industry. In continuing to provide a forum for presentation and discussion of cutting edge science in applied and environmental microbiology, the conference will hold scientific sessions on a wide range of microbes and how they sustain and protect our planet. The environments harboring microbes and how microbes adapt to these environments and interact with each other will be considered; for example biogeochemical cycles of carbon, nitrogen, sulfur and other elements in the terrestrial and marine environment, interactions between microbes and animals and between microbes and plants, virus-host interactions, microbial communication and signaling will be covered. The importance of new methods in microbial ecology, single cell technologies and the use of genomics and post-genomics in environmental and industrial microbiology will be also be covered. These topics, together with sessions on the use of microbes as fuel and bioenergy sources, as sources of natural products and in bioremediation and biocatalysis processes, will all provide platforms for established and newer researchers in the field to discuss a wide variety of aspects of the fundamental and applied aspects of environmental microbiology and to provide the driving force for innovation and impetus in this vibrant research field.