Conference: 2012 Microbial Stress Response Gordon Research Conference to be held July 20-25, 2012 in South Hadley, MA

学术价值：2012年会议将延续其传统，即提高正在研究孤立微生物和微生物群落的压力反应的科学家的科学知识和技术能力。更具体地说，2012年会议强调了两个新方向，这两个方向与网络和监管分组优先事项一致。首先，会议聚焦于从单细胞到多细胞再到微生物-宿主相互作用系统的复杂程度上的应激反应生物学的综合视角。其次，组织者共同努力，将计算和系统水平的方法纳入微生物中研究压力生物学的方法。广泛的影响这次会议为年轻的研究人员提供了许多与资深研究人员互动的非正式机会。学生和初级科学家将根据他们提交的摘要被选为演讲对象。将作出特别努力，从不同地理区域招募任职人数不足的少数群体和参与者。参与的多样性也体现在组委会上，两位主席中有一位是女性。32位受邀和确认的发言者/讨论领袖中有11位是女性，两位是代表不足的少数群体的成员。

Intellectual Merit:The 2012 conference will continue its tradition of improving the scientific knowledge and technical capability of scientists who are studying stress responses of isolated microbes and microbial communities. More specifically, the 2012 conference emphasizes two new direction that are consistent with the Networks and Regulation cluster priorities. First, the conference focuses on an integrated perspective of stress response biology across scales of complexity from single to multicellular to microbe-host interaction systems. Second, the organizers make a concerted effort to include computational and systems-levelapproaches to study stress biology in microbes.Broader ImpactsThe meeting offers numerous informal opportunities for young investigators to interact with senior researchers. Students and junior scientists will be selected for presentations based on their submitted abstracts. A particular effort will be made to recruit underrepresented minorities and participants from diverse geographical regions. Diverse participation is reflected also in the organizing committee with one of the two chairs being a female. Eleven of 32 invited and confirmed speakers/discussion leaders are females and two are members of an under-represented minority group.