6th ASM Conference on Cell-Cell Communication in Bacteria; October 16-19, 2017, Athens, Georgia

该奖项将支持将于2017年10月在格鲁吉亚雅典举行的美国微生物学会(ASM)细菌细胞-细胞通讯会议(CCCB6)的学生、博士后研究人员和早期职业研究人员。这次会议展示了创新的、多学科的和理论驱动的研究，以获得对支撑细菌协调群体行为的细胞-细胞通信的更深层次的理解。微生物物种内部和物种之间的这种信号，通常被称为群体感应，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的后果。请拨的预算将用于支持职业生涯初期研究人员以及博士后和学生研究人员的旅费，其中几人将根据提交的会议摘要被选作口头陈述。会议的组织者特别努力在性别平衡和少数群体参与方面具有广泛的包容性。会议将汇集该领域的领先研究人员，包括国际与会者。组织者在这次会议上提出了前瞻性的议程，用理论家、合成生物学家、计算生物学家、工程师、化学家和物理学家的演讲来补充微生物学的重点。会议涵盖了细菌细胞-细胞通讯在疾病中的作用，信号的化学多样性，微生物社会行为的进化，细菌群体行为，调节电路的计算模型，细胞-细胞信号的生态学观点，以及信号干扰的应用方面。

This award will support students, postdoctoral researchers and early career investigators at the American Society of Microbiology(ASM) Conference on Cell-Cell Communication in Bacteria (CCCB6) to be held in Athens, Georgia in October, 2017. The conference showcases innovative new multi-disciplinary and theory-driven research to garner a deeper understanding of the cell-cell communication underpinning coordinated group behaviors in bacteria. Such signaling within and between species of microbes, often termed ?quorum sensing?, controls 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 early-career 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 will bring together leading researchers in the field including international participants. The organizers present a forward-thinking agenda at this conference, complementing the microbiological focus with presentations by theorists, synthetic biologists, computational biologists, engineers, chemists and physicists. Sessions cover such topics as the role of bacterial cell-cell communication in disease, the chemical diversity of signals, the evolution of microbial social behavior, bacterial group behaviors, computational modeling of regulatory circuits, ecological perspectives on cell-cell signaling, and applied aspects of signal disruption.