2011 Microbial Population Biology Gordon Research Conference

该奖项为2011年微生物种群生物学戈登研究会议提供支持，该会议是病原体进化、耐药性、微生物群落以及更广泛的医学和微生物概念的主要论坛。在2011年会议的三个重点中，一个是传染病的演变和动态。第二个重点是我们的微生物群，即生活在我们身上的大量微生物。也许令人惊讶的是，微生物群可能被证明与传染病和其他健康问题有关，比如癌症和肥胖。第三个焦点是用于生物燃料的藻类生态学，这是2011年会议的新议题。实验室里的工程师承诺将藻类用作燃料；将池塘的生产规模扩大到数百万英亩英尺将需要了解藻类生态学，这里讨论的主题。会议提供了广泛的跨学科互动。本次会议的180名与会者跨越了广泛的学科，其中大多数是学生和博士后学者-这个国家未来的研究人员。2011年的会议还将邀请几位行业代表发言。与之前的会议一样，组织者非常关注演讲者的性别比例，使其与观众（约1/3）和少数族裔代表相匹配。

This award provides support for the 2011 Microbial Population Biology Gordon Research Conference, a major forum for concepts in pathogen evolution, drug resistance, microbial communities, and more generally, medicine and microbes. Of three emphases of the 2011 meeting, one is the evolution and dynamics of infectious disease. A second focus is our microbiome, the collective multitude of microbes living on us. Perhaps surprisingly, the microbiome may prove relevant to infectious disease and other health issues, such as cancer and obesity. A third focus, new to the 2011 meeting, is the ecology of algae used for biofuels. Promises of algae for fuel have come from engineers in the lab; scaling up production to millions of acre-feet in ponds will require understanding algal ecology, the topic addressed here. The meeting provides extensive cross-disciplinary interactions. The 180 attendees of this meeting span a breadth of disciplines, and most of those attending have been students and post-doctoral scholars - the future researchers of this country. The 2011 meeting will also include several industry representatives as speakers. As in previous meetings, the organizers have paid close attention to creating a sex ratio of speakers that matches the audience (approximately 1/3) and minority representation.