Conference:Funding to support graduate students and post docs to attend Halophile 2016, the international congress on halophilic microorganisms; May, 2016; San Juan, Puerto Rico

会议：资助研究生和博士后参加Halophile 2016国际嗜盐微生物大会；

• 批准号: 1564427
• 负责人: R. Thane Papke
• 金额: $ 1.6万
• 依托单位: University of Connecticut
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-03-01 至 2017-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1564427&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Conference; Funding; support; graduate; students

Hypersaline environments such as the Great Salt Lake or the Dead Sea are ecosystems where salt concentrations are five to ten times higher than seawater. Despite these extreme conditions, the waters are teaming with salt loving microorganisms, "halophiles", which are adapted to these exceedingly briny habitats. Halophiles in all three domains of life (Bacteria, Archaea and Eukarya) and their viruses are the focus of "Halophiles 2016: The 11th International Congress on Halophilic Microorganisms May 22-27th, San Juan, Puerto Rico" (Conference website: http://www.halophiles2016.org/), which is a multidisciplinary and international conference for researchers working in this field. The mission of the Congress, which has met triennially since 1978, is to explore all aspects of microbiology in salt-enriched environments and to draw on expertise from numerous disciplines in order to facilitate quantum advances in understanding life in high salt ecosystems. The objective of NSF support for the Congress is to help provide students and early career researchers with access to this unique scientific gathering, especially those who are members of groups underrepresented in Science/Technology/Engineering/Mathematics (STEM) fields.The Halophiles conference series is the primary meeting that discusses halophilic microorganisms, and highlights halophile adaptations, ecology, geographic distributions, physiology, evolution, taxonomy, biochemistry, genetics, genomics, metagenomics, biotechnology, metabolic engineering, and bioremediation. Attendees will be immersed for six days in this intellectual atmosphere, attending lectures given by highly respected and published researchers, and gaining a wide range of knowledge regarding the current, emerging and broad state of the halophile field. Though the application process will be open to all, priority will go to qualifying undergraduate/graduate students and post-docs who are from groups underrepresented in STEM fields. The International Halophile Congress has a long history of broadening participation in science.

大盐湖或死海等高盐环境是盐浓度比海水高五到十倍的生态系统。尽管存在这些极端的条件，水域中仍然存在着喜盐微生物“嗜盐微生物”，它们适应了这些极度咸水的栖息地。所有三个生命领域（细菌、古生菌和真核生物）中的嗜盐菌及其病毒是“嗜盐菌 2016：第 11 届国际嗜盐微生物大会，5 月 22 日至 27 日，波多黎各圣胡安”的焦点（会议网站：http:// /www.halophiles2016.org/），这是一个针对该领域研究人员的多学科国际会议。该大会自 1978 年以来每三年召开一次，其使命是探索富盐环境中微生物学的各个方面，并利用众多学科的专业知识，以促进理解高盐生态系统中生命的量子进展。 NSF 支持大会的目标是帮助学生和早期职业研究人员有机会参加这一独特的科学聚会，特别是那些在科学/技术/工程/数学 (STEM) 领域代表性不足的群体的成员。嗜盐菌会议系列是讨论嗜盐微生物的第一次会议，并强调嗜盐微生物的适应、生态学、地理分布、生理学、进化、分类学、生物化学、遗传学、基因组学、宏基因组学、生物技术、代谢工程和生物修复。 与会者将沉浸在这种知识氛围中六天，参加由备受尊敬和发表论文的研究人员举办的讲座，并获得有关嗜盐领域当前、新兴和广泛状态的广泛知识。 尽管申请过程将对所有人开放，但优先考虑的是来自 STEM 领域代表性不足的群体的合格本科生/研究生和博士后。国际嗜盐菌大会在扩大科学参与方面有着悠久的历史。