Applied and Environmental Microbiology Gordon Conference and Research Seminar

该奖项将支持研究生，博士后研究人员和早期职业调查人员参加2017年戈登研究会议和应用与环境微生物学研讨会（GRC-AEM），这是一个两年一度的聚会，代表了一个非常充满活力的研究领域，对环境和人类社会产生重大影响。GRC-AEM的目标是提供一个开放的论坛，介绍和讨论相关微生物科学的最新研究。 微生物对地球上的生命产生深远的影响，维持我们的环境，影响我们的健康，并推动工业生物技术。以前的AEM-GRCs帮助推进了工业实验室，学院和大学，研究基金会和政府实验室的研究。 戈登研究会议探索化学，生物和物理科学的科学前沿。成立于1950年，（AEM）GRC是运行时间最长的GRC之一。 2017年GRC-AEM，副标题为微生物经济学的人类和微生物视角，将突出微生物在自然，工业和临床环境的广泛范围内应对能源和资源过剩和限制所采取的各种策略。该研究中心的核心研究领域包括陆地，海洋和淡水生物地球化学循环以及微生物通过消耗和生产温室气体对气候变化的影响，污染土地和水的生物修复，生物燃料的生产，用作生物催化剂，人类健康中的微生物以及微生物与动物和植物的相互作用。一些会议将包括“微生物经济学”，因为它涉及微生物对人类的成本/效益，而其他人将从微生物的角度考虑“经济学”，并探索生活方式和代谢策略的多样性，以应对资源的可用性和限制。会议的亲密规模鼓励对话和思想交流-特别是在学生和资深科学家之间。为了帮助促进这一点，在大多数会议上，研究生，博士后研究员或早期职业调查员将被选择从摘要提交给一个演示。海报会议也将有助于激发整个星期的讨论。会议之前将举行为期两天的戈登研究研讨会，副标题为“微生物和微生物群落的共享经济：适应和应用”。

This award will support the participation of graduate students, postdoctoral researchers and early career investigators to attend the 2017 Gordon Research Conference and Seminar in Applied and Environmental Microbiology (GRC-AEM), a biennial gathering that represents a very vibrant research field with major impacts on the environment and human society. The goals of the GRC-AEM are to provide an open forum for presentation and discussion of the latest research in related microbial sciences. Microorganisms exert a profound influence on life on Earth, sustaining our environment, influencing our health, and driving industrial biotechnology. Previous AEM-GRCs have helped to advance research in industrial laboratories, colleges and universities, research foundations, and government laboratories. Gordon Research Conferences explore the frontiers of science in the chemical, biological and physical sciences. Established in 1950, the (AEM) GRC is one of the longest running GRCs. The 2017 GRC-AEM, subtitled Human and Microbial Perspectives of Microbial Economics, will highlight diverse strategies adopted by microbes for coping with energy and resource excesses and limitations within a broad spectrum of natural, industrial, and clinical environments. Research areas central to this GRC include terrestrial, marine, and freshwater biogeochemical cycles and the influence of microbes on climate change through consumption and production of greenhouse gases, bioremediation of contaminated land and water, production of biofuels, use as biocatalysts, microbes in human health, and interactions of microbes with animals and plants. Some sessions will embrace "Microbial Economics" as it pertains to the cost/benefit of microbes to humans, while others will consider "Economics" from the microbe's perspective and explore the diversity of lifestyles and metabolic strategies for coping with resource availability and limitation. The intimate size of the conference encourages dialog and exchange of ideas - especially between students and senior scientists. To help facilitate this, for most sessions a graduate student, postdoctoral researcher or early-career investigator will be selected be selected from the abstract submissions to give a presentation. Poster sessions will also help stimulate discussions that carry through the week. The conference will be preceded by a two-day Gordon Research Seminar subtitled the "Sharing Economy of Microbes and Microbial Communities: Adaptations and Applications".