2023 Bacterial Cell Biology and Development GRC

首届戈登细菌细胞生物学和发育研究会议(GRC)将于2023年6月4日至9日在新罕布夏州曼彻斯特的南汉普郡大学举行。这次会议将有研究生和博士后参加，并将汇集来自广泛学科的高级和初级研究人员，讨论和促进我们对细菌细胞机制和功能的方方面面的理解，会议内容包括细胞分裂、细胞命运和决策、细胞组织、形态和动力学、细胞膜结构、细胞运动性和细胞与细胞相互作用。将介绍和讨论新的光学和电子显微镜技术的应用，以及对细菌进行单细胞研究的能力。细胞生物学家、微生物学家、生物化学家和生物物理学家之间的互动将增加对这些细胞的了解，并接触和培训初级科学家(研究生、博士后研究员和初级助理教授)。这种参与是会议的优先事项，同时还有广泛的海报会议，以允许高级科学家和初级科学家之间的互动。NSF的支持将用于支付注册费和/或旅费，以允许来自他们职业生涯的这些阶段的参与者出席，特别是对于在该领域历史上代表性不足的群体的成员。在细菌细胞生物学和发展GRC上展示的科学将涵盖各种细菌门的生物化学和细胞生物学，包括关于细胞内组织的不对称和动力学、膜生物发生、细菌细胞内的隔间、细胞壁机械和生物发生，以及许多不同细菌物种的广泛结构、发展策略、生物化学和运动，包括自由生活和共生细菌，以及动植物病原体的演讲。从遗传学、细胞生物学和生物化学到生物物理学、生物信息学和建模，受邀的演讲者和讨论领导人代表了不同的学科，所有与会者之间的互动机会丰富，预计将激发创新思维，加强该领域的新视角和研究方向。除了促进对细菌细胞生物学和发育的基本理解外，考虑到细菌系统的相对简单和模块化，这次会议上提出的科学可能被用来促进合成生物学和其他工业应用。对广泛的研究生和博士后研究员的教育将增加研究这些生物体的未来独立调查人员的临界质量，这些生物体对于理解动植物健康、生态系统和环境至关重要。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The first Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Bacterial Cell Biology and Development will be held at Southern New Hampshire University in Manchester, NH, from June 4-9, 2023. This meeting will be attended by graduate students and postdocs, and will bring together senior and junior researchers from broad ranging disciplines to discuss and advance our understanding of all aspects of the machinery and function of bacterial cells, with sessions on cell division, cell fate and decision-making, cellular organization, morphology and dynamics, cell envelope structures, cellular motility, and cell-cell interactions. The application of novel light and electron microscopic techniques will be presented and discussed, as well as the ability to perform single-cell studies on bacteria. The interactions of cell biologists, microbiologists, biochemists, and biophysicists will increase understanding of these cells, and engage with and train junior scientists (graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and beginning assistant professors). This engagement is a priority of the conference, along with extensive poster sessions to allow interactions between senior and junior scientists. NSF support will be used to defray registration fee and/or travel costs to allow attendance of participants from these stages of their careers, especially for members of groups historically under-represented in this field.The science presented at the Bacterial Cell Biology and Development GRC will cover the biochemistry and cell biology of a wide variety of bacterial phyla, including talks on the asymmetry and dynamics of intracellular organization, membrane biogenesis, compartments within bacterial cells, cell wall mechanics and biogenesis, and the wide range of structures, developmental strategies, biochemistry, and movement of many different bacterial species, including free-living and commensal bacteria, and animal and plant pathogens. The diversity of disciplines represented among invited speakers and discussion leaders - ranging from genetics, cell biology and biochemistry to biophysics, bioinformatics, and modeling - and abundant opportunities for interactions among all conference participants is expected to inspire innovative thinking and potentiate new perspectives and research directions in the field. In addition to advancing fundamental understanding of bacterial cell biology and development, given the relative simplicity and modularity of bacterial systems, the science presented at this conference may be leveraged to advance synthetic biology and other industrial applications. Education of a wide range of graduate students and postdoctoral fellows will increase the critical mass of future independent investigators studying these organisms, which are critical to understanding animal and plant health, ecosystems, and the environment.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.