Conference on Bacterial Locomotion and Signal Transduct

描述：（由申请人提供）：第六届国际会议 细菌运动和信号转导（BLAST VI）将于明年1月举行 2001年14日至19日，墨西哥库埃尔纳瓦卡。会议预计将有 200-250名与会者，将集中在传感和 几种细菌系统的反应。会议形式旨在促进 广泛讨论研究人员的最新发展和想法， 美国和国外。约60次口头发言和100次 海报将包括在该计划中，允许几乎所有的实验室 在这个快速发展的领域工作，展示他们的主要发现。科学 会议将比较和对比的感觉和运动系统的一个 各种各样的原核生物，专注于他们的信号中的每一个基本步骤 转导途径：（a）通过化学和生物化学途径的跨膜信号传导。 光感受器;（B）通过细胞内磷酸传递的信号传递 级联;（c）细胞运动性、基因表达的感觉控制，以及 发展;及（d）细胞运动的机制。细菌感觉系统 在微生物生态学和发病机制中具有重要作用， 提供有用的模型，以了解类似的信号系统， 在许多真核生物中。BLAST会议已成为大多数人的主要论坛， 该领域的研究人员提出他们目前的研究结果，并讨论 关于细菌感测的新兴概念和概括， 能动性BLAST VI的综述将发表，其中将总结关键 在会议上提出的调查结果，并提供了一个容易获得的概述， 该领域的现状。

DESCRIPTION: (Provided by applicant): The Sixth International Conference on Bacterial Locomotion and Signal Transduction (BLAST VI) will beheld January 14-19, 2001, in Cuernavaca, Mexico. The conference, which is expected to have 200-250 participants, will focus on the molecular mechanisms of sensing and response in several bacterial systems. The meeting format is designed to foster extensive discussions of recent developments and ideas among researchers from the United States and abroad. Approximately 60 oral presentations and 100 posters will be included in the program, allowing virtually all laboratories working in this rapidly moving field to present their key findings. Scientific sessions will compare and contrast the sensory and locomotor systems of a variety of prokaryotes, focusing on each fundamental step in their signal transduction pathways: (a) transmembrane signaling by chemo- and photo-receptors; (b) signal transmission by intracellular phosphorelay cascades; (c) sensory control of cellular motility, gene expression, and development; and (d) the mechanics of cell motility. Bacterial sensory systems have important functions in microbial ecology and in pathogenesis, and also provide useful models for understanding analogous signaling systems that occur in many eukaryotes. The BLAST meeting has become the principal forum for most investigators in this field to present their current findings and to discuss emerging concepts and generalizations concerning bacterial sensing and motility. A review of BLAST VI will be published, which will summarize key findings presented at the meeting and provide a readily accessible overview of the present state of the field.