Conference: 2023 Applied and Environmental Microbiology GRC and GRS: Writing the Microbial Constitution

会议：2023年应用与环境微生物学GRC和GRS：书写微生物宪法

• 批准号: 2313268
• 负责人: Joel Kostka
• 金额: $ 1.99万
• 依托单位: Gordon Research Conferences
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-05-01 至 2024-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2313268&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Conference; 2023; Applied; Environmental; Microbiology

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 16-21, 2023. 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 2023 Conference subtitled "Writing the Microbial Constitution" will include sessions on: Core Principles that Govern Life, Biodiversity and Ecosystem Function, Ecoengineering, Applications and Emerging Contaminants, Ecology and Evolution of Holobionts, Transitioning Human Microbiome Research into Health Outcomes, Probing Microbial Phenotypes In Situ, Microbial Mediation of Biogeochemical Cycles, Microbes and Climate Change and Symbiosis in Ecosystems. The Conference has a strong 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 focussed on Exploring Complex Networks of Microbial Communities, 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.

微生物在地球上几乎无处不在。微生物进行的过程使地球宜居，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、维持粮食安全和预防人类疾病至关重要。这笔赠款将支持早期科学家参加2023年7月16日至21日在芒特霍利奥克学院举行的戈登应用与环境微生物学会议(GRC-AEM)。GRC-AEM成立于1950年，将科学家聚集在一起，研究微生物对人类健康的重要性，微生物与动植物的相互作用，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涵盖的微生物学研究领域对环境和人类具有巨大的社会影响，因此GRC仍然是一个高度热门和非常活跃的研究领域。GRC-AEM的主要目标是提供一个公开论坛，展示和讨论从单细胞到生态系统层面的微生物在环境和应用方面的最新研究成果。GRC AEM将解决新技术开发的关键问题，甚至是有争议的问题。2023年会议的副标题为“编写微生物组成”，将包括以下会议：管理生命、生物多样性和生态系统功能的核心原则、生态工程、应用和新出现的污染物、全息生物的生态和进化、将人类微生物组研究转变为健康结果、现场探索微生物表型、生物地球化学循环的微生物调节、微生物和气候变化以及生态系统中的共生。大会在鼓励学术界、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。将有一个与GRC-AEM相关的戈登研究研讨会(GRS-AEM)，重点是探索微生物群落的复杂网络，这将专门为博士生和博士后研究人员举办。GRC-AEM项目还将有几个海报演讲，由职业生涯早期的研究人员从海报摘要提交中挑选出来。这笔赠款将确保能够参加GRS和GRC的不同群体的更广泛的参与，帮助博士生、博士后和职业早期教师分别参与GRS和GRC的费用。这一奖励反映了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。