Boston Bacterial Meeting

描述（如申请人所提供）：在过去的十七年中，每年一度的波士顿细菌会议（BBM）汇集了来自波士顿、新英格兰及其他地区的所有细菌学领域的研究人员。它的主要目标是促进新英格兰微生物实验室之间的合作，让学生和博士后研究人员有机会展示他们的研究，并满足既定的教授，并介绍新的研究人员到波士顿地区的微生物学社区。每年有近500名参与者代表100多个学术和生物技术机构，研究主题从基础微生物生理学到传染病。BBM通过广泛的主题范围和鼓励参与者之间互动的形式来实现这些目标。对于这种规模的会议来说，只有研究生和博士后才能发表演讲。对于许多年轻的研究人员来说，主要的国际会议可能不是一个选择，会议是一个重要的机会，实践科学交流，并介绍自己丰富的细菌学研究社区，会议借鉴与会者。为期两天的课程包括简短的口头报告，两个下午的海报会议，晚上的招待会和一位著名教授的主题演讲。教授们还主持每个会议，参加问答后的会谈，并参加海报会议和招待会。这种对微生物学广泛范围内的交流和互动的强调是推进医疗保健和传染病研究的主要力量。通过让基础科学家与医学微生物学家接触，BBM促进了基础和应用微生物学领域之间的技术转让，从而为研究和管理传染病提出了新的创造性方法。此外，通过针对年轻的研究人员，我们相信会议提供了一个独特的机会，可以在刚刚开始职业生涯的研究人员中播种新的想法，这意味着整个论文，博士后项目或实验室可以围绕新的方法来建立了解微生物对人类健康的影响。 公共卫生相关性：波士顿细菌会议将新英格兰地区的微生物学家聚集在一起，分享他们的工作并相互学习。通过将基础科学家和卫生保健研究人员以及年轻和成熟的研究人员都包括在内，可以出现创造性的合作，为传染病的治疗和预防产生新的想法。

Description (as provided by the applicant): For the past seventeen years, the annual Boston Bacterial Meeting (BBM) has brought together researchers in all areas of bacteriology from Boston, New England, and beyond. Its primary goals are to foster collaborations among New England-based microbiology laboratories, to give students and postdoctoral researchers opportunities to present their research and meet established professors, and to introduce new researchers to the Boston-region microbiology community. The nearly 500 participants each year represent over 100 academic and biotechnology institutions with research topics ranging from basic microbial physiology to infectious disease. The BBM achieves these goals through a broad topic range and a format that encourages interaction among participants. Uniquely for conferences of its size, only graduate students and post-docs give talks. For many young researchers, for whom major international meetings may not be an option, the meeting is a vital opportunity to practice scientific communication and to introduce themselves to the rich bacteriological research community that the conference draws upon for attendees. The two-day program features short oral presentations, two afternoon poster sessions, evening receptions, and a keynote lecture by a leading professor. Professors also moderate each session, participate in Q&A following talks, and attend the poster sessions and receptions. This emphasis on communication and interaction within the broad scope of microbiology is a major strength for advancing research in health care and infectious diseases. By bringing basic scientists into contact with medical microbiologists, the BBM fosters technology transfer between the basic and applied microbiology fields, thereby suggesting new and creative approaches to studying and managing infectious disease. Furthermore, by targeting young researchers, we believe that the conference presents a unique opportunity to seed new ideas amongst researchers who are just starting their careers, meaning that entire dissertations, postdoctoral projects, or labs may be set up around novel approaches to understanding the impact of microbes on human health. Public Health Relevance: The Boston Bacterial Meeting brings together microbiologists in the New England area to share their work and to learn from each other. By including both basic scientists and health-care researchers, and both young and established investigators, creative collaborations can emerge that produce new ideas for infectious disease treatment and prevention.