Boston Bacterial Meeting

波士顿细菌会议

• 批准号: 8837246
• 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: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-05-18 至 2016-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8837246
• 关键词: Area; Biotechnology; Boston; Collaborations; Communicable Diseases; Communication; Communities; Environment; Environmental Microbiology; Fostering; Future; Goals; Grant; 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 (provided by the applicant): For the past 19 years, the annual Boston Bacterial Meeting (BBM) has brought together researchers involved in all areas of microbiology, attracting attendees from both within and outside of New England. The primary goals of the BBM are to foster collaboration among New England-based microbiology laboratories, to grant students and postdoctoral fellows opportunities to present their research and meet established professors, and to introduce new researchers to the New England 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 its goals through a broad topic range and a format that encourages interaction among participants. Unique for conferences of its size, the BBM offers talks only to graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. 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 the question and answer sections following talks, and attend the poster sessions and receptions. Our 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 laboratories may be set up around novel approaches to understanding the impact of microbes on human health and on the environment.

 描述（由申请人提供）：在过去的19年里，年度波士顿细菌会议（BBM）汇集了涉及微生物学所有领域的研究人员，吸引了来自新英格兰内外的与会者。BBM的主要目标是促进新英格兰微生物学实验室之间的合作，授予学生和博士后研究员机会展示他们的研究并会见既定教授，并向新英格兰微生物学社区介绍新的研究人员。每年有近500名参与者代表100多个学术和生物技术机构，研究主题从基础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实现其目标。独特的会议的规模，BBM提供会谈只给研究生和博士后研究员。对于许多年轻的研究人员来说，主要的国际会议可能不是一个选择，会议是一个重要的机会，实践科学交流，并介绍自己丰富的细菌学研究社区，会议借鉴与会者。为期两天的课程包括简短的口头报告，两个下午的海报会议，晚上的招待会和一位著名教授的主题演讲。教授们还主持每一次会议，参加讲座后的问答部分，并参加海报会议和招待会。我们强调在微生物学的广泛范围内的交流和互动是推进医疗保健和传染病研究的主要力量。通过让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创造性方法。此外，通过针对年轻的研究人员，我们认为会议提供了一个独特的机会，可以在刚刚开始职业生涯的研究人员中播种新的想法，这意味着可以设置整个论文，博士后项目或实验室 围绕新的方法来了解微生物对人类健康和环境的影响。