2012 Biology of Spirochetes Gordon Research Conference

2012年螺旋体生物学戈登研究会议

• 批准号: 8246631
• 负责人: DAVID A HAAKE
• 金额: $ 0.5万
• 依托单位: GORDON RESEARCH CONFERENCES
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-01-09 至 2012-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8246631
• 关键词: Animal Diseases; Applied Research; Area; Bacteria; Biology; Borrelia; Collaborations; Communities; Conscious; Diagnosis; Disabled Persons; Disease; Doctor of Medicine; Doctor of Philosophy; Dysentery; Ecology; Environment; Epidemiology; Equilibrium; Evolution; Fertilization; Fostering; Gender; Genetic; Goals; Health; Immunity; Infection; Infectious Agent; International; Leptospira; Leptospirosis; Lyme Disease; Mentors; Metabolism; Minority; Molecular Biology; Molecular Genetics; Order Spirochaetales; Participant; Pathogenesis; Periodontal Diseases; Postdoctoral Fellow; Prevention; Refractory; Relapsing Fever; Request for Applications; Research; Research Personnel; Rosa; Scientist; Series; Structure; Syphilis; System; Translational Research; Treponema; Underrepresented Minority; United States National Institutes of Health; Virulence; Woman; Work; abstracting; base; career; clinically relevant; frontier; fundamental research; graduate student; human disease; improved; meetings; member; pathogen; posters; programs; success; symposium; transmission process

DESCRIPTION: This application requests partial support for a meeting on the Biology of Spirochetes as part of the Gordon Research Conference series to be held in Ventura, CA, January 22-27, 2012. The purpose of this conference is to assemble the most active and productive investigators in all areas of spirochete biology to share research advances at the frontier of the field and provide a forum for cross-fertilization of ideas. An overarching goal of this conference is to improve understanding of these unusual bacteria and the diseases they cause. The introduction and mentoring of new researchers in this technically challenging field remains a tightly associated goal. The specific aim of this meeting will be to bring together over 50 scientists with expertise encompassing several genera of pathogenic spirochetes, with a total of 175 participants, for a five-day conference in an informal and highly interactive environment that fosters the exchange of ideas. The conference program consists of 9 sessions encompassing a broad array of basic and clinically relevant topics, including mechanisms of immunity, epidemiology and pathogenesis of spirochetal diseases, evolution, ecology and transmission of spirochetal infectious agents, and the structure, metabolism, genetics and molecular biology of these unique bacteria. Afternoon poster sessions will include active participation by all attendees. Invited and confirmed speakers in every session include both leading established scientists and productive new investigators studying spirochetes. In addition, approximately one quarter of the speakers in each session will be selected from submitted abstracts to assure inclusion of pertinent cutting-edge research by more junior scientists. A conscious effort has been made and will be extended to encourage participation by graduate students and early career researchers, to assure gender balance, and to include participation by minorities and persons with disabilities. The significance of this application is that this Gordon Research Conference will provide a unique opportunity for cross-fertilization of ideas by members of the international research community working on these diverse and medically relevant bacteria. The health relatedness of this application is that the ensuing discussions will promote research contributing to the prevention, diagnosis and control of the serious, understudied and emerging spirochetal diseases that afflict a large and growing number of people around the world. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: This conference is devoted to discussions of leading edge fundamental, applied and translational research of all medically important and biologically relevant spirochetes, which comprise a unique but diverse group of bacteria. Many spirochetes are pathogens and cause a variety of human and animal diseases, including syphilis, leptospirosis, Lyme borreliosis, relapsing fever, periodontal disease and dysentery. The discussions generated at this Gordon Research Conference will promote research contributing to improved prevention, diagnosis and control of spirochetal infections. The informal, discussion-oriented environment of the conference fosters valuable interactions between all participants.

描述： 该申请要求在2012年1月22日至27日在加利福尼亚州文图拉举行的戈登研究会议系列的一部分，要求对螺旋体生物学的会议进行部分支持。本次会议的目的是组建苏皮雪体生物学领域中最活跃，最有生产力的研究人员，以共享该领域领域的研究进步，并提供跨越思想的论坛。这次会议的总体目标是提高对这些不寻常细菌及其引起的疾病的理解。在这个技术挑战性的领域中，新研究人员的引入和指导仍然是一个紧密相关的目标。这次会议的具体目的是将50多位具有专业知识的科学家汇集在一起​​，其中包括几个致病性螺旋体，共有175名参与者，在一个非正式且高度互动的环境中进行为期五天的会议，以促进思想交流。会议计划由9次会议组成，其中包含一系列基本和临床相关的主题，包括免疫，流行病学和螺旋疾病的发病机理，螺旋体疾病的进化，生态学和螺旋腹感染剂的传播，以及这些独特的细菌的结构，分泌物和分子生物学的结构，遗传学和分子生物学。下午的海报会议将包括所有与会者的积极参与。在每节课中，受邀和确认的演讲者都包括领先的既定科学家和研究螺旋体的新研究人员。此外，每个会议中约有四分之一的演讲者将从提交的摘要中选择，以确保更多初级科学家纳入相关的尖端研究。已经做出了有意识的努力，并将扩大以鼓励研究生和早期职业研究人员的参与，以确保性别平衡，并包括少数民族和残疾人的参与。该应用程序的重要性是，这次戈登研究会议将为在这些多样化和医学相关的细菌方面的国际研究界成员交叉侵入思想提供独特的机会。该应用的健康相关性是，随之而来的讨论将促进对预防，诊断和控制严重，研究和新兴的螺旋性疾病的研究，这些疾病困扰着世界各地大量且越来越多的人。 公共卫生相关性： 这次会议致力于讨论所有具有医学重要和生物学相关的螺旋体的领先基础，应用和翻译研究，其中包括独特但多样化的细菌。许多螺旋体是病原体，并引起各种人类和动物疾病，包括梅毒，钩端螺旋体病，莱姆毛发病，复发性发烧，牙周疾病和痢疾。在本戈登研究会议上产生的讨论将促进研究的研究，以改善螺旋体感染的预防，诊断和控制。会议的非正式，面向讨论的环境促进了所有参与者之间的宝贵互动。