2007 Microbial Population Biology, will be held at Proctor Academy, New Hampshire from July 22 - 26, 2007.

微生物种群生物学戈登研究会议是两年一度的会议，吸引了来自不同领域的科学家，在过去的25年里，这次会议已经证明了微生物种群生物学作为一个领域发展的核心。会议汇集了生物学的综合和广泛的思想科学家，促进生物化学家，微生物和分子遗传学家，生物信息学家，病毒学家，计算生物学家，数学建模师，人口生物学家，进化论者，分子，医学和环境微生物学家之间的互动。过去的会议导致了跨学科的合作，通常采用尖端技术，并经常在领先的科学期刊上产生重大影响和出版物。本次会议是一个重要的论坛，讨论达尔文医学的主要概念，进化毒力，病原体的起源，重组在构建病原体种群中的作用以及抗生素耐药性的进化。因此，未来的医疗实践将部分基于对微生物进化在疾病中的作用的理解。该奖项将支持八名博士后学者和其他参与者的注册和旅行费用。2007年的会议有一半的特邀演讲者是副教授或以下级别的，大约三分之一的演讲者和讨论负责人是女性或少数民族。

The Microbial Population Biology Gordon Research Conference is a biennial conference that draws scientists from a diversity of fields and for the past 25 years this meeting has proven central to the development of Microbial Population Biology as a field. The meeting brings together integrative and broad-thinking scientists in biology by promoting interactions between biochemists, microbial and molecular geneticists, bioinformaticists, virologists, computational biologists, mathematical modelers, population biologists, evolutionists, and molecular, medical and environmental microbiologists. Past conferences have led to crossdisciplinary collaborations, often employing cutting-edge technologies, and frequently of major impact and publications in leading scientific journals. This conference is a major forum for discussion of major concepts in Darwinian Medicine, the evolution virulence, the origin of pathogens, the role of recombination in structuring pathogen populations and the evolution of antibiotic resistance. As such, future medical practice will be based in part on an understanding of the role of microbial evolution in disease. This award will support registration and travel costs for eight post-doctoral scholars and other participants. The 2007 conference boasts half of the invited speakers at the associate professor level or below and approximately one third of the speakers and discussion leaders are female or minority.