Boston Bacterial Meeting

波士顿细菌会议

• 批准号: 8395485
• 负责人: Richard Marc Losick
• 金额: $ 0.6万
• 依托单位: HARVARD UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-08-15 至 2013-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8395485
• 关键词: Area; Bacteriology; Biotechnology; Boston; Collaborations; Communicable Diseases; Communication; Communities; Environmental Microbiology; Fostering; Future; Goals; Health; Healthcare; Human; Industrial Microbiology; Institution; International; Laboratories; Learning; Medical; Medical Microbiology; Microbe; Microbial Physiology; Microbiology; New England; Oral; Participant; Postdoctoral Fellow; Prevention; Research; Research Personnel; Science; Scientist; Seeds; Staging; Students; Technology Transfer; Travel; Work; base; career; cost; expectation; graduate student; infectious disease treatment; lectures; meetings; microbial; novel strategies; posters; professor; programs; public health relevance; skills; symposium

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.

描述（由申请人提供）：在过去的17年里，一年一度的波士顿细菌会议（BBM）汇集了来自波士顿、新英格兰和其他地区所有细菌学领域的研究人员。其主要目标是促进新英格兰微生物实验室之间的合作，为学生和博士后研究人员提供展示研究成果和与知名教授会面的机会，并向波士顿地区微生物学界介绍新的研究人员。每年有近500名与会者代表100多个学术和生物技术机构，研究主题从基本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。在这种规模的会议中，只有研究生和博士后发表演讲是独一无二的。对于许多年轻的研究人员来说，重要的国际会议可能不是他们的选择，这次会议是实践科学交流和向会议为与会者吸引的丰富的细菌学研究界介绍自己的重要机会。为期两天的课程包括简短的口头报告，下午的两个海报会议，晚上的招待会，以及一位知名教授的主题演讲。教授们还主持每一场会议，参与演讲后的问答，并参加海报发布会和招待会。强调微生物学广泛范围内的交流和互动是促进卫生保健和传染病研究的主要力量。通过使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和创造性的方法。此外，通过针对年轻研究人员，我们相信会议为刚刚开始职业生涯的研究人员提供了一个独特的机会，可以为他们提供新的想法，这意味着整个论文，博士后项目或实验室可能会围绕新的方法来理解微生物对人类健康的影响。