Basic Research for the Future: Opportunities in Microbiologyfor the Coming Decade, March 1-3, 1996 in Daytona Beach, FL

9423342佩恩美国微生物学学会将召开一个学术讨论会的领先科学家审议在美国面临的最困难的挑战之一：在微生物学最有前途的研究领域的识别，特别是那些提供最大的潜力形式的长期利益和机会。 将编写一份白色报告，向广大微生物界、工业界、关注微生物学研究的决策者和适当的联邦机构传播这套深入的分析和建议。 最后报告也将向公众提供。 微生物学为提高农业生产力、维持环境质量和改善人类健康做出了重大贡献。 随着现代技术的进步，该领域现在可以为公众提供最佳的科研投资回报。 强大的新分析技术-如聚合酶链反应（PCR）、DNA探针的开发、转座子插入基因、扫描隧道显微镜和膜入口质谱法-的出现丰富了微生物学的前景。 然而，正如过去十年的研究一样重要，微生物界必须确定那些有希望解决我们在环境中最关键问题的科学领域，开发替代生物降解材料，并在未来十年改善人类状况。 该奖项由NSF生物科学理事会颁发，由分子和细胞生物科学部以及环境生物学部共同资助。 美国微生物学会将召集一批来自学术界和工业界的顶尖科学家，向他们传达各自领域的科学现状和未来发展方向。 他们将编写一份文件，概述微生物研究中令人兴奋的领域，这些领域可以用于造福人类，以及了解细菌如何利用它们在世界上存在的独特位置。 这次会议将有利于对细菌活动感兴趣的政府机构，科学家和公众。 ***

9423342 Payne The American Academy of Microbiology will convene a colloquium of leading scientists to deliberate on one of the most difficult challenges facing research in the United States: identification of the most promising research areas in microbiology, particularly those that offer the greatest potential form long-term benefits and opportunities. A white paper report will be prepared to disseminate this in-depth set of analyses and recommendations to the broad microbiological community, to industry, to policy makers who have concerns about microbiological research and to appropriate federal agencies. The final report will also be made available to the lay public. Microbiology has contributed significantly to more productive agriculture, to sustaining the quality of the environment and to improving human health. With modern technological advances, the field is now positioned to provide the public with optimal return for its scientific research investment. The availability of powerful new analytical techniques--such as the polymerase chain reaction (PCR), development of DNA probes, gene insertion by transposons, scanning tunneling microscopy, and membrane-inlet mass spectrometry--enriches the prospects lying ahead in microbiology. However, as significant as research has been over the past decade, it is critical that the microbiological community identify those scientific areas that present the promise to solve our most critical problems in the environment, in development of alternative biodegradable materials, and in improving the human condition over the next decade. This Award is made by the NSF Directorate for Biosciences, funded jointly by the Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences and the Division of Environmental Biology. %%% The American Academy of Microbiology will convene a group of leading scientists from both academic and industrial pursuits to communicate to the group their vision of where the science in their areas is now and where it will go to in the fut ure. They will produce a document outlining where the exciting areas in microbiological research are that can be utilized for the benefit of humankind, and the understanding of how bacteria exploit their unique places in the world where they exist. This meeting will benefit governmental agencies that are interested in bacterial activities, scientists, and the general public. ***