Mid-Atlantic Microbial Pathogenesis Meeting

描述（由申请人提供）：大西洋中部微生物发病机制会议将于2005年2月6日至8日在弗吉尼亚州夏洛茨维尔附近的冬青滑雪胜地举行。这将是该会议的第三次年会。会议的目的是促进从事微生物致病机理研究的科学家之间的交流和合作。在会议的头两年，我们吸引了来自中大西洋地区内外的科学家。这次会议的一个重要方面将是为学生和博士后研究员提供一个机会，在轻松和合议的环境中，向知识渊博的观众展示他们的工作，专注于他们的学科。 会议将在两天内举行四次会议。每一次会议将邀请一位主旨发言人，并由主要研究人员、博士后研究员以及从提交的摘要中抽取的研究生和本科生进行演讲。目前正在挑选四位主讲人;在过去的几年里，我们成功地吸引了来自全国各地的知名科学家。海报展示会将为与会者介绍和讨论他们的工作提供额外的机会。从事微生物发病机理各个方面工作的科学家预计将出席会议并介绍他们的工作。相当数量的NIH资助的研究人员研究各种对人类重要的细菌病原体的毒力机制位于这一地理区域，预计其中许多人将积极参加这次会议。将通过在专业出版物上刊登广告、直接邮寄给该区域学术机构有关部门以及政府和私人实验室以及向为该区域服务的美国微生物学学会当地分会成员发出总括电子邮件通知等方式宣传会议。还建立了一个专门网站（www.ecu.edu/mampm），以宣传会议并提供必要的信息和登记表格。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Mid-Atlantic Microbial Pathogenesis Meeting will be held Feb. 6-8, 2005 at the Wintergreen Ski Resort near Charlottesville, VA. This will be the third annual meeting of this conference. The purpose of the conference is to foster communication and collaboration between scientists engaged in microbial pathogenesis research. During the first two years of the conference, we have attracted scientists from both within and outside the Mid-Atlantic region. An important aspect of this meeting will be to provide students and post-doctoral fellows with an opportunity to present their work to a knowledgeable audience, focused in their discipline, in a relaxed and collegial environment. The meeting will consist of four sessions over two days. Each session will feature an invited keynote speaker and talks by principal investigators, post-doctoral fellows, and graduate and undergraduate students drawn from the submitted abstracts. Selection of the four keynote speakers is currently underway; in past years we have been successful in attracting renowned scientists from across the country. A poster session will provide an additional opportunity for participants to present and discuss their work. Scientists working in all aspects of microbial pathogenesis are expected to attend the meeting and present their work. A considerable number of NIH-funded investigators studying the virulence mechanisms of a variety of bacterial pathogens of human importance are located in this geographic region, and it is anticipated that many of these will actively participate in this meeting. The meeting will be publicized through a combination of advertisements in professional publications, direct mailings to relevant departments at academic institutions and government and private laboratories within the region, and blanket e-mail announcements directed at members of the local American Society for Microbiology branches that serve this region. A dedicated website (www.ecu.edu/mampm) has also been established to publicize the meeting and provide the necessary information and forms required for registration.