Eleventh International Spores Conference: Woods Hole, MA May 9-13, 1992.

细菌孢子的非凡抗性，孢子形成物种的多样性，以及孢子形成物对医学、食品加工和农业的重要性（好的和坏的），是早期孢子形成研究的主要刺激因素。越来越多的人将孢子的形成视为细胞分化的一种原始形式。本次会议的重点是控制孢子形成的基因的表达调控。该程序的目的是传达整个过程的图片，从营养细菌分化成一个孢子，并将孢子的形成与其他指数后应激反应。将有一节课专门讨论营养细胞分裂的相关过程。这次会议将于1992年5月9日至13日在马萨诸塞州的伍兹霍尔召开，来自世界各地的顶尖科学家将齐聚一堂，并将重点介绍令人兴奋的最新发展。会议的形式旨在最大限度地提高与会者之间的互动。

The extraordinary resistance of bacterial spores, the diversity of sporeforming species, and the importance (good and bad) of sporeformers to medicine, to food processing and to agriculture were major stimuli for early research on spore formation. Increasingly, spore formation has been seen and studied as a primitive form of cell differentiation. The emphasis of the present conference is regulation of expression of genes that control sporulation. The program is designed to convey a picture of the whole process of differentiation for a vegetative bacterium into a spore, and to relate spore formation to other post- exponential stress responses. One session will be devoted to the related process of vegetative cell division. The conference which will convene in Woods Hole, Massachusetts on May 9-13, 1992, will bring together leading scientists from around the world, and will highlight exciting recent developments. The formats of the conference is designed to maximize interaction among participants.