2009 Microbial Population

2009年戈登微生物种群生物学会议将涵盖微生物科学的各种问题。 会议以进化生物学为基础，采用强有力的综合方法，将涵盖广泛的主题，包括：适应的动力学和遗传学、进化基因组学、蛋白质结构和功能的进化以及毒力的进化。 会议吸引了来自不同领域的科学家，促进生物学综合和广泛思维研究人员之间的互动。 因此，它提供了一个理想的场所，在其中塑造新的调查方式，特别是在传染病生物学等领域，受益于进化生物学的坚实基础。 疾病的演变越来越被视为促进公共和个人健康、动物福利和农业综合企业的关键。 目前猪流感的爆发是疾病与宿主之间不断进化的军备竞赛的一个例子，其中病原体不断进化出宿主的免疫防御。 虽然许多生物医学研究关注分子和临床水平上的疾病机制和进展，但很少注意了解毒力和传播率如何演变，以及它们如何演变。 会议将探讨微生物的一般进化，并强调毒力，传播率和疾病的演变，并将增加对新病原体的起源和传播的理解。

The 2009 Gordon Conference on Microbial Population Biology will cover a diverse range of issues in the microbial sciences. Founded in evolutionary biology and with a strongly integrative approach, the Conference will cover a broad range of topics including: the dynamics and genetics of adaptation, evolutionary genomics, the evolution of protein structure and function and the evolution of virulence. The Conference draws scientists from a diversity of fields, promoting interactions among integrative and broad-thinking researchers in biology. As such it provides the ideal venue within which to shape new ways of investigation, particularly in areas such as infectious disease biology that benefit from a firm foundation in evolutionary biology. The evolution of disease is increasingly seen as key to promoting public and individual health, animal welfare and agribusiness. The current out-break of swine flu is an example of an incessant evolutionary arms race between a disease and its hosts, one in which the pathogen continually out-evolves host immune defences. While much biomedical research is concerned with the mechanism and progression of disease at the molecular and clinical levels, little attention has been paid to understanding how virulence and transmission rates evolve, and what they evolve in response to. The Conference will explore microbial evolution in general, and emphasise the evolution of virulence, transmission rates and disease, and will increase understanding of the origins and spread of new pathogens.