2018 Gordon Research Seminar and Conference on Marine Microbes: Italy - July 2018

戈登海洋微生物研究研讨会（GRS）和戈登海洋微生物研究会议（GRC）共同创建了一个国际论坛，分享海洋生物圈中微生物的生态学、进化和功能方面的前沿研究。会议汇集了来自世界各地具有不同背景和专业知识的顶尖科学家，提供海洋微生物生命的综合计划，涵盖病毒，细菌，古生菌和Eurkarya原生生物的前沿研究，跨越远洋和底栖领域，营养食物网动力学（光自养，化学自养，异养和混合养）及其相互作用和对生物地球化学循环的影响。研讨会和会议都以专题会议的形式组织，目的是强调该领域的新方法和新问题，同时刺激严格的讨论。申请的资金使早期职业参与者（具有不同背景的海洋微生物研究界的博士后研究人员和研究生）能够参加2018年戈登研究研讨会和戈登海洋微生物研究会议。其基本原理是为了促进博士后和研究生在GRS的出席和参与，这样他们就有机会在同行科学家中展示他们的研究，并在这个环境中获得信心。GRS将让年轻的、职业生涯早期的科学家接触到海洋微生物的前沿研究（从进化到生物地球化学到生态学到元组学），为同行之间的网络提供机会，并培养有望导致终身合作的关系。它还将通过挑选高级研究导师和讨论领袖的参与，提供职业指导和科学指导。GRS还将增加学生和博士后对后续GRC的参与，这将使他们接触到该领域最先进的研究。GRC将由在海洋微生物研究中发挥主导作用的不同群体的年轻和成熟科学家进行口头报告。2018海洋微生物GRS和GRC的主题分别是“海洋微生物在不断变化的环境中生存的策略”和“跨时空尺度阐明微生物过程”。这些GRC和GRS主题借鉴了海洋微生物学和互动微生物海洋中的挑战和机遇，以帮助制定概念性议程，帮助推动社区向前整合微生物过程，并着眼于将其置于地球系统背景下。海洋微生物GRC和GRS可以说是唯一一个将海洋微生物相关的各种研究人员（来自不同专业阶段）聚集在一起的会议。它的持续时间和独特的展示形式以及对个人互动的强调为交流科学思想、产生新思想和建立新的合作提供了一个难得的机会。实现这些目标的一个关键部分是帮助将各种各样的科学家聚集到会议地点（两者都在同一地点）。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The Gordon Research Seminar (GRS) and Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Marine Microbes together create an international forum for sharing cutting-edge research on the ecology, evolution, and function of microorganisms in the ocean biosphere. The meeting brings together top scientists from around the world with diverse backgrounds and expertise to provide an integrated program on marine microbial life, covering cutting edge research on viruses, Bacteria, Archaea and Eurkarya protists, spanning pelagic and benthic realms, trophic food web dynamics (photoautrophy, chemoautotrophy, heterotrophy and mixotrophy) and their interactions and impact on biogeochemical cycles. Both the Seminar and Conference are organized in thematic sessions, with the goal of highlighting new methodological approaches and emerging questions in the field while stimulating rigorous discussion. Requested funds enable early career participants (postdoctoral researchers and graduate students in the marine microbiology research community with diverse backgrounds) to attend both the 2018 Gordon Research Seminar and Gordon Research Conference on Marine Microbes. The rationale is to facilitate the attendance and participation of postdocs and graduate students in the GRS so they have an opportunity to present their research among peer scientists and gain confidence in this setting. The GRS will expose young, early-career scientists to cutting-edge research on marine microbes (ranging from evolution to biogeochemistry to ecology to meta-omics), provide opportunities to network among peers, and foster relationships that will hopefully lead to lifelong collaborations. It will also provide career guidance and scientific mentoring through the participation of select senior-level research mentors and discussion leaders. The GRS will also increase student and postdoc participation in the subsequent GRC, which will expose them to the state-of-the-art research occurring in the field. The GRC will have oral presentations from a diverse group of young and established scientists who play leading roles in marine microbial research. Discussion leaders, who are also leaders in their field, have The respective themes of the 2018 Marine Microbes GRS and GRC are "Marine Microbial Strategies for Survival in a Changing Environment" and "Elucidating Microbial Processes Across Spatial and Temporal Scales". These GRC and GRS themes draw upon challenges and opportunities in marine microbiology and the interactive microbial ocean in order to help develop the conceptual agenda to help drive the community forward in integrating microbial processes with an eye on putting them in an Earth Systems context. The Marine Microbes GRC and GRS are arguably the only meetings that coalesce such a diverse array of researchers (from various professional stages) related to marine microbes. Its duration and unique format for presentation and emphasis on personal interactions represents an exceptional opportunity for exchanging scientific ideas, generating new ideas, and building new collaborations. A critical part of achieving those goals is to help to get a diverse array of scientists to the meeting site (both are co-located).This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.