2013 Staphylococcal Diseases Gordon Research Conference and Gordon Research Semin

描述(申请人提供)：本拨款申请的目的是申请资助2013年葡萄球菌性疾病戈登研究会议(GRC)及其相关戈登研究研讨会(GRS)的部分资金。这将是第13届GRC，第一次于1989年举行，此后每两年举行一次。重要的是，这将是GRS的第一次会议，其具体目的是促进下一代葡萄球菌调查员的发展，以及这些调查员的积极参与和融入更广泛的研究界。这些会议将在密西西比州沃特维尔山谷的沃特维尔山谷度假村举行，GRS将于7月27日至28日举行，GRC随后将于2013年7月28日至8月2日举行。这将是第二次在该地点举行会议，第一次是在2009年。在2009年的会议上，万斯·福勒博士和马克·斯梅尔策博士当选为联席副主席，他们在2011年在意大利卢卡(巴尔加)的Il Ciocco酒店及度假村举行的会议上担任这一职务。按照会议惯例，他们现在将担任2013年会议的联合主席，西蒙·福斯特博士和乔斯·范·斯特里普博士担任联合副主席。迈克尔·奥尔森博士和凯伦·本肯博士将担任GRS的联合主席。GRC及其相关GRS的总体目标是将世界领先的科学家和最有前途的年轻研究人员和实习生聚集在一个合作和支持的环境中。其具体目标是：1)提供一个论坛，介绍未发表的前沿研究以及对这些结果推动该领域发展的方式的正式和非正式讨论；2)包括侧重于不同葡萄球菌物种以及这些物种对人和动物的葡萄球菌感染总体问题的影响的调查人员；3)包括侧重于葡萄球菌疾病的各个方面的调查人员，并为这些调查人员提供一个论坛，以扩大他们自己工作的范围；以及4)确保年轻的调查人员以有意义和互动的方式发展并融入更广泛的研究界。会议气氛将包括有组织的讨论会以及在下午和晚上举行非正式聚会的机会，从而为来自不同学科的科学家交流思想和促进跨学科合作提供一个理想的环境，包括在他们之间和下一代葡萄球菌调查人员之间。因此，GRC将提供一个独特和根本重要的机会，将世界领先的葡萄球菌研究人员聚集在一起，以一种旨在自由交流研究结果和思想的形式，涵盖葡萄球菌生物学及其与疾病的关系的所有方面，并将与GRS一起，在 一种专门为促进该领域有前途的年轻研究人员的发展和他们融入更大的研究界而设计的方式。在短期内，这将大大增强世界各地调查人员解决以下关键问题的能力 虽然从长远来看，这将确保他们的努力和下一代调查人员的努力继续取得成功。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The purpose of this grant submission is to request funds to partially support the 2013 Staphylococcal Diseases Gordon Research Conference (GRC) and its associated Gordon Research Seminar (GRS). This will be the 13th GRC, with the first being held in 1989 and thereafter on a bi-annual basis. Importantly, it will be the 1st meetig of the GRS, the specific purpose of which is to promote the development of the next generation of staphylococcal investigators and the active participation of these investigators and their integration into the broader research community. These meetings will be held at the Waterville Valley Resort in Waterville Valley, NH, with the GRS being held on July 27-28 and the GRC immediately following on July 28-August 2, 2013. This will be second time the meeting was held at this site, with the first occurring in 2009. At this 2009 meeting Drs. Vance Fowler and Mark Smeltzer were elected Co-Vice Chairs, a role they served at the 2011 meeting at the Il Ciocco Hotel and Resort, in Lucca (Barga), Italy. As is the conference custom, they will now serve as Co- Chairs of the 2013 meeting, with Drs. Simon Foster and Jos van Stripj serving as Co-Vice Chairs. Drs. Michael Olson and Karen Beenken will serve as Co-Chairs of the GRS. The overall goal of the GRC and its associated GRS is to bring the world's leading scientists and the most promising young investigators and trainees together in a collegial and supportive environment. The specific goals are to: 1) provide a forum for the presentation of unpublished, cutting-edge research and both formal and informal discussions of the manner in which these results advance the field, 2) include investigators focusing on diverse staphylococcal species and the impact of these species on the overall problem of staphylococcal infection in both humans and animals, 3) include investigators focusing on all aspects of staphylococcal disease and provide these investigators with a forum to expand the boundaries of their own work, and 4) ensure development and integration of young investigators into the broader research community in a meaningful and interactive way. The collegial atmosphere will include organized discussion sessions as well as opportunities for informal gatherings in the afternoons and evenings, thus providing an ideal setting for scientists from different disciplines to exchange ideas and foster cross-disciplinary collaborations both among themselves and the next generation of staphylococcal investigators. Thus, the GRC will provide a unique and fundamentally important opportunity to bring together the world's leading staphylococcal investigators in a format designed for the free exchange of research results and ideas covering all aspects of staphylococcal biology and its relationship to disease and, together with the GRS, it will do so in a manner specifically designed to promote the development of promising young investigators in the field and their integration into the larger research community. In the short term, this will significantly enhance the ability of investigators around the world to address critical problems in staphylococcal disease, while in the long term it will ensure the continued success of their efforts and those of the next generation of investigators.