2019 Applied and Environmental Microbiology GRC/GRS

微生物在地球上几乎无处不在。微生物执行使地球适合居住的过程，并有助于维持植物，人类和动物的健康。 换句话说，了解微生物及其活动对于维持清洁的空气和水，维护粮食安全和预防人类疾病至关重要。该补助金将支持早期职业科学家参加2019年7月14日至19日在霍利奥克山学院举行的应用与环境微生物学戈登会议（GRC-AEM）。 GRC-AEM成立于1950年，汇集了科学家，致力于研究微生物在人类健康中的重要性，微生物与动物和植物的相互作用，陆地和水生生物地球化学循环，受污染土地和水的生物修复，生物燃料的生产以及微生物在工业中作为生物催化剂的使用。GRC-AEM所涵盖的微生物学研究领域对环境和人类产生了巨大的社会影响，因此这个GRC仍然是一个非常热门和充满活力的研究领域。GRC-AEM的主要目标是提供一个开放的论坛，介绍和讨论从单细胞到生态系统水平的微生物环境和应用的最新研究成果。 GRC AEM将解决新技术开发中的关键甚至有争议的问题。2019年的会议副标题为“塑造地球的微宇宙”将解决微生物学中最紧迫的问题之一：我们如何利用我们从地球与微生物生命的共同进化中学到的知识来应对人类世当前的挑战？会议在促进学术界、研究机构/基金会以及政府和工业实验室的科学家进行尖端和创新研究方面有着良好的记录。将有一个戈登研究研讨会（GRS-AEM）与GRC-AEM相关，题为“微生物语言：微生物，分子和代谢”，这将是专门为博士生和博士后研究人员。GRC-AEM计划还将有几个海报演讲，由从海报摘要提交中选择的早期职业研究人员进行。该补助金将确保能够参加GRS和GRC的不同群体的个人的参与，帮助博士生，博士后和早期职业教师分别参加GRS和GRC的费用。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Microorganisms are present virtually everywhere on Earth. Microbes carry out processes that make Earth habitable and help to maintain plant, human, and animal health. In other words, an understanding of microorganisms and their activities is critical to sustain clean air and water, to maintain food security and to prevent human disease. This grant will support the participation of early-career scientists in the Gordon Conference on Applied and Environmental Microbiology (GRC-AEM)at Mount Holyoke College, July 14 - 19, 2019. Established in 1950, the GRC-AEM brings together scientists to address research on the importance of microbes in human health, interactions of microbes with animals and plants, terrestrial and aquatic biogeochemical cycles, bioremediation of contaminated land and water, production of biofuels, and use of microbes as biocatalysts in industry. Areas of microbiological research covered by the GRC-AEM have an immense societal impact on the environment and mankind and thus this GRC remains highly topical and a very vibrant research field. The main goals of the GRC-AEM are to provide an open forum for the presentation and discussion of the latest research findings on environmental and applied applications of microorganisms from the single cell to the ecosystem level. The GRC AEM will address critical or even controversial issues for the development of new technologies. The 2019 Conference subtitled "Shaping the Earth's Microverse" will address one of the most urgent questions in microbiology: How can we employ what we have learned from the co-evolution of Earth with microbial life to address current challenges of the Anthropocene? The Conference has a great track record of stimulating cutting edge and innovative research by scientists in academia, research institutes/foundations and government and industrial laboratories. There will be a Gordon Research Seminar (GRS-AEM) associated with the GRC-AEM entitled, "Microbial Language: Microbes, Molecules, and Metabolites", which will be exclusively for PhD students and postdoctoral researchers. The GRC-AEM program will also have several poster talks by early-career researchers chosen from poster abstract submissions. The grant will ensure broadening participation of a diverse group of individuals who can attend both the GRS and the GRC, assisting with costs for PhD students, postdocs and early-career faculty members to participate in the GRS and GRC, respectively.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.