Mid-Atlantic Microbial Pathogenesis Meeting (MAMPM), 2013

中大西洋微生物发病机制会议（MAMPM）将于2013年1月27日至29日在弗吉尼亚州夏洛茨维尔附近的Wintergreen滑雪胜地举行。中大西洋地区被定义为北卡罗来纳州、弗吉尼亚州、马里兰州、哥伦比亚特区、特拉华州和新泽西州。温特格林度假酒店因其中心位置、优良的设施和专业的会议人员而被选中。这将是该会议的第七次会议，所有会议都在Wintergreen度假村举行。在前六次MAMPM会议期间，我们吸引了来自中大西洋地区内外的科学家，平均每次会议约有151名与会者。会议的目的是促进从事微生物发病机制研究的科学家之间的交流和合作。此外，我们的主要目标之一是为学生和博士后提供一个机会，向知识渊博的观众展示他们的工作，专注于他们的学科，在一个轻松和合议的环境中。为青年科学家提供这样的机会对他们的科学发展非常重要，也是本次会议最吸引人的一个方面。会议将在两天内举行四次会议。每次会议将邀请一位主讲人，并由主要研究人员、博士后、研究生和本科生从提交的摘要中抽取演讲内容。四名主讲人的选择工作已由组委会完成。两次海报会议将为参与者提供额外的机会来展示和讨论他们的工作。相当多的nih资助的研究人员研究各种对人类重要的病原体的毒力机制位于这个地理区域，预计许多这些实验室将参加这次会议。会议将通过以下方式进行宣传：在专业刊物上刊登广告，直接邮寄给该地区学术机构的相关部门、政府和私人实验室，并向为该地区服务的美国微生物学会当地分会的成员发送电子邮件。还设立了一个专门的网站（http://mampm.org/）来宣传会议，并提供必要的信息和登记所需的表格。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Mid-Atlantic Microbial Pathogenesis Meeting (MAMPM) will be held January 27-January 29, 2013 at the Wintergreen Ski Resort near Charlottesville, VA. The Mid-Atlantic region is defined as North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, The District of Columbia, Delaware, and New Jersey. The Wintergreen Resort was selected because of its central location, its excellent facilities, and its professional conference staff. This willbe the seventh meeting of the conference and all have taken place at The Wintergreen Resort. During the first six MAMPM conferences, we have attracted scientists from both within and outside the Mid-Atlantic region, averaging approximately 151 attendees per meeting. The purpose of the conference is to foster communication and collaboration between scientists engaged in microbial pathogenesis research. In addition, one of our key goals is to provide students and post-doctoral fellows with an opportunity to present their work to a knowledgeable audience, focused in their discipline, in a relaxed and collegial environment. Providing such opportunities for young scientists is important for their scientific development and has been one of the most appealing aspects of this conference. The meeting will consist of four sessions over two days. Each session will feature an invited keynote speaker and talks by principal investigators, post-doctoral fellows, and graduate and undergraduate students drawn from the submitted abstracts. Selection of the four keynote speakers has been accomplished by the Organizing Committee. Two poster sessions will provide an additional opportunity for participants to present and discuss their work. A considerable number of NIH-funded investigators studying the virulence mechanisms of a variety of pathogens of human importance are located in this geographic region and it is anticipated that many of these laboratories will participate in this meeting. The meeting will be publicized through a combination of advertisements in professional publications, direct mailings to relevant departments at academic institutions, and government and private laboratories within the region, and e-mails directed at members of the local American Society for Microbiology branches that serve this region. A dedicated website (http://mampm.org/) has also been established to publicize the meeting and provide the necessary information and forms required for registration.