5th ASM Conference on Cell-Cell Communication in Bacteria, October 2014 in San Antonia, Texas

该奖项支持召开“细菌细胞-细胞通讯会议”。组织者设计了一个项目，展示了基于理论驱动的创新研究，多学科方法和新技术的使用，以更深入地了解支撑细菌协调群体行为的细胞-细胞通信。这种信息素或代谢物介导的信号在微生物物种内部和物种之间，通常被称为？群体感应?是一种对地球上的生命非常重要的生物现象，它控制着一系列微生物的行为和过程，对人类和动物的健康、农业、能源和环境产生巨大影响。所要求的预算将用于支持初级研究人员、博士后和学生研究人员的旅费，其中一些人将根据提交的会议摘要被选中进行口头报告。会议的组织者特别努力在性别平衡和少数民族参与方面具有广泛的包容性。该会议将于2014年10月在德克萨斯州圣安东尼奥举行，将汇集该领域的主要研究人员，包括国际参与者。CCCB组织者在本次会议上提出了一个前瞻性的议程，由理论家、计算生物学家、工程师、化学家和物理学家发表演讲。一些会议侧重于宿主-病原体相互作用和细胞-细胞通讯在发病机制，共生和互惠中的作用。其他领域的重点是了解细菌信息素介导的信号如何影响宿主植物或动物，现在已知这些植物或动物已经进化出检测、破坏和响应微生物信号的机制。

This award supports a Conference on Cell-Cell Communication in Bacteria (CCCB). The organizers have designed a program that showcases innovative new research based on theory-driven, multi-disciplinary approaches and the use of novel technologies to garner a deeper understanding of the cell-cell communication underpinning coordinated group behaviors in bacteria. Such pheromone- or metabolite-mediated signaling within and between species of microbes, often termed ?quorum sensing?, represents a biological phenomenon of great importance to life on earth by controlling a range of microbial behaviors and processes with enormous consequences for human and animal health, agriculture, energy and the environment. The budget requested will be used to support travel of beginning investigators, as well as postdoctoral and student researchers, several of whom will be selected for oral presentations based on their submitted conference abstracts. The organizers of the conference have made a particular effort to be broadly inclusive in terms of gender balance and minority participation.The conference, which will be held in October 2014 in San Antonio Texas, will bring together leading researchers in the field including international participants. The CCCB organizers present a forward-thinking agenda at this conference with presentations by theorists, computational biologists, engineers, chemists and physicists. Some sessions focus on host-pathogen interactions and the role of cell-cell communication in pathogenesis, symbiosis and mutualism. Other areas focus on understanding how bacterial pheromone-mediated signaling affects host plants or animals, which are now known to have evolved mechanisms to detect, disrupt, and respond to microbial signals.