Annual American Society for Rickettsiology (ASR) Workshop

描述（由申请人提供）：美国立克次体学会（ASR）成员的国际研究人员社区在澳大利亚到津巴布韦的国家都有代表，当然也包括美国和欧洲。这种广泛的地理代表性是由全球出现的病媒传播的立克次体病原体提供的。ASR的年度会议甚至在出版之前就促进了发现和资源的科学交流。这就形成了一个合作成员交织的结构，非常有利于该领域本身的进步，并促进了年轻研究人员与知名科学家之间的联系。在每次会议上，组织者都会从每个参加会议的实验室中赞助一名初级成员（主要是学生，博士后研究人员和助理教授），特别是为了加强新信息的流动，并鼓励年轻的立克次体学家留在该领域。在去年的会议结束时，组织者邀请所有与会者进行讨论，以确定被视为推动立克次体学进步的最优先研究领域。因此，我们建议在年度ASR会议的框架内组织一次为期一天半的研讨会，讨论"立克次体基因表达的调控"这一中心主题。"这将广泛包括节肢动物载体成功定植的分子决定因素（Abdu Azad UMD，Kevin Macaluso LSU）和哺乳动物宿主（Jere McBride UTMB，Matt Welch UCB，Yasuko Rikihisa OSU），节肢动物的防御反应（Joao佩德拉UCR，Viveka Vadyvaloo WSU）和哺乳动物（Guy Palmer WSU，Nahed Ismail UPMC）和病原体的遗传操作，以确定协调这种相互作用的调节机制（Ulrike Munderloh UMN，Dan Rockey OR，丹尼尔沃斯AR）.研讨会将包括主要发言人的口头报告，以及由每个主要发言人从初级教师，博士后科学家和提交摘要的学生中选出的其他发言人。口头报告之后将举行深入讨论会。口头介绍会议由中心主题范围内的海报会议补充。将积极招募代表性不足群体的成员担任发言人和海报展示者。主要发言者将被要求将海报分成大约五到六个小组，并将在海报展示者和参与会议的与会者之间进行讨论。在会议主席的帮助下，并与发言者合作，将总结口头和海报介绍的主要影响，包括讨论情况，并在会后发表。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The international community of researchers who are members of the American Society for Rickettsiology (ASR) is represented in countries from Australia to Zimbabwe, including, of course, the USA and Europe. This wide geographic representation is fed by the global emergence of vector-borne rickettsial pathogens. The annual meetings of the ASR foster scientific exchange of discoveries and resources even before publication. This has resulted in an interwoven fabric of cooperating members that is highly conducive to the advancement of the field itself and facilitates connections between young investigators with established scientists. At every meeting, the organizers sponsor a junior member (primarily students, postdoctoral researchers and assistant professors) from each attending laboratory, specifically with the aim to strengthen the flow of new information, and to encourage young rickettsiologists to remain in the field. At the end of last year's meeting the organizers invited a discussion among all attendees to identify research areas viewed to be of highest priority for driving advances in rickettsiology. As a result, we propose to organize a 1 and 1/2-day workshop within the framework of the annual ASR meeting that addresses the central theme of "Regulation of Gene Expression in Rickettsiae." This will broadly include molecular determinants of successful colonization of the arthropod vector (Abdu Azad UMD, Kevin Macaluso LSU) and the mammalian host (Jere McBride UTMB, Matt Welch UCB, Yasuko Rikihisa OSU), defensive responses of arthropods (Joao Pedra UCR, Viveka Vadyvaloo WSU) and mammals (Guy Palmer WSU, Nahed Ismail UPMC), and genetic manipulation of pathogens to identify the regulatory mechanisms that coordinate this interplay (Ulrike Munderloh UMN, Dan Rockey OR, Daniel Voth AR). The workshop will comprise oral presentations by the key speakers, and additional speakers who will be selected by each key speaker from junior faculty, postdoctoral scientists and students who have submitted abstracts. An in-depth discussion session will follow oral presentations. Oral presentation sessions are complemented by poster sessions that fall within the central theme. Members from underrepresented groups will be actively recruited as speakers and poster presenters. Key speakers will be asked to organize posters into groups of about five - six each, and will lead their discussion among poster presenters and participating meeting attendees. With the help of session chairs, and in collaboration with presenters, the major impacts of oral and poster presentations will be summarized, including the discussions, and published following the meeting.