Scientific Meeting: Bacterial Locomotion and Signal Transduction VI; Cuernavaca, Mexico

第六届细菌运动和信号转导国际会议（BLAST VI）将于2001年1月14日至19日在墨西哥库埃尔纳瓦卡举行。会议预计将有200-250名与会者，将重点讨论几种细菌系统中传感和反应的分子机制。会议形式旨在促进美国和国外研究人员对最近的发展和想法进行广泛讨论。大约60个口头报告和100张海报将包括在该计划中，允许几乎所有的实验室在这个快速发展的领域工作，介绍他们的关键发现。科学会议将比较和对比各种原核生物的感觉和运动系统，侧重于其信号转导途径中的每个基本步骤：（a）化学受体和光受体的跨膜信号传导;（B）细胞内磷酸化级联的信号传递;（e）细胞运动、基因表达和发育的感觉控制;以及（d）细胞运动的机制。细菌感觉系统在微生物生态学和致病机制中具有重要的功能，并且还为理解发生在许多真核生物中的类似信号系统提供了有用的模型。BLAST会议已成为这一领域大多数研究人员的主要论坛，以展示他们目前的发现，并讨论有关细菌传感和运动的新兴概念和概括。将发表一份对BLAST VI的综述，其中将总结会议上提出的关键发现，并提供该领域现状的易于访问的概述。

The Sixth International Conference on Bacterial Locomotion and Signal Transduction (BLAST VI) will be held January 14-19, 2001, in Cuernavaca, Mexico. The conference, which is expected to have 200-250 participants, will focus on the molecular mechanisms of sensing and response in several bacterial systems. The meeting format is designed to foster extensive discussions of recent developments and ideas among researchers from the United States and abroad. Approximately 60 oral presentations and 100 posters will be included in the program, allowing virtually all laboratories working in this rapidly moving fieldto present their key findings. Scientific sessions will compare and contrast the sensory and locomotor systems of a variety of prokaryotes, focusing on each fundamental step in their signal transduction pathways: (a) transmembrane signaling by chemo- and photo-receptors; (b) signal transmission by intracellular phosphorelay cascades; (e)sensory control of cellular motility, gene expression, and development; and (d) the mechanics of cell motility. Bacterial sensory systems have important functions in microbial ecology and in pathogenesis, and also provide useful models for understanding analogous signaling systems that occur in many eukaryotes. The BLAST meeting has become the principal forum for most investigators in this field to present their current findings and to discuss emerging concepts and generalizations concerning bacterial sensing and motility. A review of BLAST VI will be published, which will summarize key findings presented at the meeting and provide a readily accessible overview of the present state of the field.