Conference:Funding to support graduate students and post docs to attend Halophile 2016, the international congress on halophilic microorganisms; May, 2016; San Juan, Puerto Rico

高盐环境，如大盐湖或死海，是盐浓度比海水高5到10倍的生态系统。尽管有这些极端的条件，沃茨中还是聚集了一些嗜盐微生物，它们适应了这些极端咸的栖息地。在所有三个生命领域（细菌、嗜盐菌和真核生物）中的嗜盐菌及其病毒是“嗜盐菌2016：第11届嗜盐微生物国际大会5月22日至27日，圣胡安，波多黎各”（会议网站：http：//www.halophiles2016.org/）的焦点，这是一个多学科的国际会议，供在该领域工作的研究人员参加。该大会自1978年以来每三年举行一次会议，其使命是探讨富盐环境中微生物学的所有方面，并借鉴众多学科的专门知识，以促进在了解高盐生态系统中的生命方面取得重大进展。NSF支持大会的目的是帮助学生和早期职业研究人员获得这一独特的科学聚会，特别是那些在科学/技术/工程/数学（STEM）领域代表性不足的群体的成员。嗜盐菌会议系列是讨论嗜盐微生物的主要会议，并强调嗜盐菌适应，生态学，地理分布，生理学，进化，分类学，生物化学、遗传学、基因组学、宏基因组学、生物技术、代谢工程和生物修复。 与会者将沉浸在这种知识氛围中六天，参加由备受尊敬和出版的研究人员举办的讲座，并获得有关嗜盐菌领域当前，新兴和广泛状态的广泛知识。 虽然申请过程将向所有人开放，但优先考虑符合条件的本科生/研究生和博士后，他们来自STEM领域代表性不足的群体。国际嗜盐菌大会在扩大科学参与方面有着悠久的历史。

Hypersaline environments such as the Great Salt Lake or the Dead Sea are ecosystems where salt concentrations are five to ten times higher than seawater. Despite these extreme conditions, the waters are teaming with salt loving microorganisms, "halophiles", which are adapted to these exceedingly briny habitats. Halophiles in all three domains of life (Bacteria, Archaea and Eukarya) and their viruses are the focus of "Halophiles 2016: The 11th International Congress on Halophilic Microorganisms May 22-27th, San Juan, Puerto Rico" (Conference website: http://www.halophiles2016.org/), which is a multidisciplinary and international conference for researchers working in this field. The mission of the Congress, which has met triennially since 1978, is to explore all aspects of microbiology in salt-enriched environments and to draw on expertise from numerous disciplines in order to facilitate quantum advances in understanding life in high salt ecosystems. The objective of NSF support for the Congress is to help provide students and early career researchers with access to this unique scientific gathering, especially those who are members of groups underrepresented in Science/Technology/Engineering/Mathematics (STEM) fields.The Halophiles conference series is the primary meeting that discusses halophilic microorganisms, and highlights halophile adaptations, ecology, geographic distributions, physiology, evolution, taxonomy, biochemistry, genetics, genomics, metagenomics, biotechnology, metabolic engineering, and bioremediation. Attendees will be immersed for six days in this intellectual atmosphere, attending lectures given by highly respected and published researchers, and gaining a wide range of knowledge regarding the current, emerging and broad state of the halophile field. Though the application process will be open to all, priority will go to qualifying undergraduate/graduate students and post-docs who are from groups underrepresented in STEM fields. The International Halophile Congress has a long history of broadening participation in science.