BIOFILMS 2000

生物膜 2000

• 批准号: 6215939
• 负责人: JOHN WILLIAM COSTERTON
• 金额: $ 3.5万
• 依托单位: AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MICROBIOLOGY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2000
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2000-07-13 至 2001-07-12
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6215939
• 关键词: dental plaque; health science research; meeting /conference /symposium; molecular film; travel

DESCRIPTION: (from the application) Funding is requested to support the participation of US scientists in a meeting entitled "Biofilms 2000" that will be sponsored by the American Society for Microbiology (ASM). This meeting will be held at the Big Sky Resort, in Montana between the 16th and 21st of July 2000, and it will bring together researchers in the field of bacterial biofilms from all over the world. A similar ASM conference, in Snowbird Utah in 1996, drew 360 participants from 42 countries and was characterized by the purposeful inclusion of you investigators, postdoctoral fellows and students, mostly from the US and UK. The Snowbird meeting is widely regarded as having defined the emerging field of Biofilm Microbiology and many important connections were made between people in different basic disciplines (Science, Medicine, Dentistry, and Engineering) who all share a keen and urgent interest in biofilms. Because of the increased interest in this field, this meeting is expected to draw at least 500 delegates. The medical and dental field have gradually come to terms with the realization that the bacteria that cause chronic and refractory infections, which comprise about 65 percent of the infections seen in the developed world, actually grow in matrix-enclosed biofilms. The inherent resistance of these sessile biofilm bacteria to both antimicrobial agents and natural host defenses poses very serious problems of management and, frankly, we have not done a good job of designing preventive or therapeutic strategies to deal with these common infections (e.g. middle ear infections and periodontitis). The importance of the topic is attested by the recent issuance of an RFA (98-070) by eight institutes of the NIH, and by intense academic and industrial interest as reflected in the recent review in Science (May 21, 1999) and article in Business Week (September 13, 1999), Biofilms 2000 will include a full day workshop in order to teach the special biofilm methods necessary for research in this area, and a full day symposium on the development of a special interdisciplinary cadre of scientists who will carry research forward in specific areas including medical and dental infectious diseases.

描述：（来自申请）请求资金支持 美国科学家参加了题为“Biofilms 2000”的会议，该会议将 由美国微生物学会（ASM）赞助。本次会议将 将于 7 月 16 日至 21 日在蒙大拿州 Big Sky Resort 举行 2000年，它将聚集细菌生物膜领域的研究人员 来自世界各地。 1996 年在犹他州雪鸟举行的一次类似的 ASM 会议， 吸引了来自 42 个国家的 360 名参与者，其特点是目标明确 包括你们的研究人员、博士后研究员和学生，大部分来自 美国和英国。雪鸟会议被广泛认为定义了 生物膜微生物学的新兴领域并建立了许多重要的联系 不同基础学科（科学、医学、牙科、 和工程），他们都对生物膜有着强烈而紧迫的兴趣。因为 由于人们对该领域的兴趣不断增加，预计本次会议将吸引 至少 500 名代表。 医疗和牙科领域已逐渐接受这一现实 引起慢性和难治性感染的细菌，其中包括 发达国家大约 65% 的感染病例实际上在增长 在基质封闭的生物膜中。这些固着生物膜的固有抵抗力 细菌对抗菌剂和自然宿主防御都构成非常大的威胁 管理上存在严重问题，坦白说，我们没有做好 设计预防或治疗策略来应对这些常见问题 感染（例如中耳感染和牙周炎）。的重要性 该主题已由八位成员最近发布的 RFA (98-070) 证实 NIH 研究所，以及强烈的学术和工业兴趣 反映在《科学》杂志最近的评论（1999 年 5 月 21 日）和《科学》杂志的文章中 商业周刊（1999 年 9 月 13 日），Biofilms 2000 将包括一整天 讲授研究所需的特殊生物膜方法的研讨会 在这一领域，以及关于开发一个特殊的全天研讨会 跨学科的科学家骨干队伍将推动研究的发展 特定领域包括医疗和牙科传染病。