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

微生物在地球上几乎无处不在。微生物进行的过程使地球适合居住，并帮助维持植物、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。这项资助将支持早期职业科学家参加2023年7月16日至21日在Mount Holyoke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，汇集了科学家，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作为工业生物催化剂的使用。GRC- aem涵盖的微生物研究领域对环境和人类有着巨大的社会影响，因此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，介绍和讨论微生物从单细胞到生态系统水平的环境和应用方面的最新研究成果。GRC AEM将解决新技术发展的关键甚至有争议的问题。2023年会议的副标题是“撰写微生物构成”，将包括以下会议：支配生命的核心原则、生物多样性和生态系统功能、生态工程、应用和新出现的污染物、全息生物的生态学和进化、将人类微生物组研究转化为健康结果、原位探测微生物表型、微生物对生物地球化学循环的调解、微生物与气候变化以及生态系统中的共生。会议在鼓励学术界、研究机构/基金会、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。与GRC-AEM相关的戈登研究研讨会（GRS-AEM）将专注于探索微生物群落的复杂网络，该研讨会将专门面向博士生和博士后研究人员。GRC-AEM项目还将有几次海报演讲，由从提交的海报摘要中选择的早期职业研究人员进行。该补助金将确保扩大可以参加GRS和GRC的不同群体的个人参与，协助博士生，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。

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.