Wind River Conference on Procaryotic Biology-Student Support to be held in summers of 2010, 2011, and 2012 at the Lodge in Estes Park Colorado

学术价值：该奖项为Wind River原生生物会议(前身为Wind River基因交流会议；转化会议)提供支持。2010年的会议将于6月2日至6日在科罗拉多州的埃斯蒂斯公园举行。这一年度国际会议致力于各种原核系统的生物学，包括原核基因调控、分子生物学、生理学、遗传交换、原核生物学及其相关领域的研究报告，包括DNA修复/突变/进化、原核分化和发育途径、重组途径、嗜热生物学、古生物生物学和生物技术。会议所代表的系统的多样性为交流新思想和将已确立的概念应用于新出现的系统提供了肥沃的环境。更广泛的影响：从历史上看，这次会议的一个优势是承诺包括研究生、博士后研究员，甚至一些非常有才华的本科生研究人员参加。这笔赠款将通过允许这些年轻的研究人员以口头和海报形式展示他们的研究，与国内和国际公认的该领域的领导者讨论他们的工作，并开始建立他们自己的专业网络来培育这一传统。这次会议由基因和基因组系统、生物分子系统和细胞系统共同资助。

Intellectual Merit: This award provides support for the Wind River Conference on Procaryotic Biology (formerly the Wind River Conference on Genetic Exchange; Transformation Meetings). The 2010 meeting will be held June 2-6 in Estes Park, Colorado. This annual international meeting is devoted to the biology of a variety of procaryotic systems and includes reports of research in the fields of procaryotic gene regulation, molecular biology, physiology, genetic exchange, procaryotic biology and related areas, including DNA repair/mutagenesis/evolution, procaryotic differentiation and developmental pathways, recombination pathways, thermophilic biology, archaeal biology, and biotechnology. The diversity of systems represented by the meeting provide a fertile environment for sharing of new ideas and for applying well-established concepts to newly emerging systems. Broader Impacts: Historically, a strength of this meeting has been a commitment to including participation by graduate students, post-doctoral fellows and even some very talented undergraduate researchers. This grant will foster this tradition by allowing these young researchers to present their research in oral and poster presentations, discuss their work with nationally and internationally recognized leaders in the field, and begin to build their own professional networks.This conference is co-funded by Genes and Genome Systems, Biomolecular Systems, and Cellular Systems.