Boston Bacterial Meeting

波士顿细菌会议

• 批准号: 8837246
• 负责人: Richard Marc Losick
• 金额: $ 0.6万
• 依托单位: HARVARD UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-05-18 至 2016-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8837246
• 关键词: Area; Biotechnology; Boston; Collaborations; Communicable Diseases; Communication; Communities; Environment; Environmental Microbiology; Fostering; Future; Goals; Grant; Health; Healthcare; Human; Industrial Microbiology; Institution; International; Laboratories; Learning; Medical; Medical Microbiology; Microbe; Microbial Physiology; Microbiology; New England; Oral; Participant; Postdoctoral Fellow; Prevention; Research; Research Personnel; Science; Scientist; Seeds; Staging; Students; Technology Transfer; Travel; Work; base; career; cost; expectation; graduate student; infectious disease treatment; lectures; meetings; microbial; novel strategies; posters; professor; programs; public health relevance; skills; symposium

 DESCRIPTION (provided by the applicant): For the past 19 years, the annual Boston Bacterial Meeting (BBM) has brought together researchers involved in all areas of microbiology, attracting attendees from both within and outside of New England. The primary goals of the BBM are to foster collaboration among New England-based microbiology laboratories, to grant students and postdoctoral fellows opportunities to present their research and meet established professors, and to introduce new researchers to the New England microbiology community. The nearly 500 participants each year represent over 100 academic and biotechnology institutions with research topics ranging from basic microbial physiology to infectious disease. The BBM achieves its goals through a broad topic range and a format that encourages interaction among participants. Unique for conferences of its size, the BBM offers talks only to graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. For many young researchers, for whom major international meetings may not be an option, the meeting is a vital opportunity to practice scientific communication and to introduce themselves to the rich bacteriological research community that the conference draws upon for attendees. The two-day program features short oral presentations, two afternoon poster sessions, evening receptions, and a keynote lecture by a leading professor. Professors also moderate each session, participate in the question and answer sections following talks, and attend the poster sessions and receptions. Our emphasis on communication and interaction within the broad scope of microbiology is a major strength for advancing research in health care and infectious diseases. By bringing basic scientists into contact with medical microbiologists, the BBM fosters technology transfer between the basic and applied microbiology fields, thereby suggesting new and creative approaches to studying and managing infectious disease. Furthermore, by targeting young researchers, we believe that the conference presents a unique opportunity to seed new ideas amongst researchers who are just starting their careers, meaning that entire dissertations, postdoctoral projects, or laboratories may be set up around novel approaches to understanding the impact of microbes on human health and on the environment.

 描述（由申请人提供）：在过去的 19 年里，一年一度的波士顿细菌会议 (BBM) 汇集了微生物学各个领域的研究人员，吸引了来自新英格兰内外的与会者 BBM 的主要目标。旨在促进新英格兰微生物学实验室之间的合作，为学生和博士后研究员提供展示其研究成果并与知名教授会面的机会，并向新英格兰微生物学界介绍新的研究人员。每年有 500 名参与者代表 100 多个学术和生物技术机构，其研究主题涵盖从基础微生物生理学到传染病等各个领域，通过广泛的主题范围和鼓励参与者之间互动的形式来实现其目标。 BBM 只向研究生和博士后提供演讲，对于许多年轻研究人员来说，大型国际会议可能不是他们的选择，但这次会议是实践科学交流和向丰富的细菌学研究社区介绍自己的重要机会。为期两天的会议包括简短的口头演讲、两个下午的海报会议、晚间招待会以及由一位著名教授主持的主题演讲，并参与演讲后的问答部分。我们强调微生物学广泛范围内的交流和互动，这是推进医疗保健和传染病研究的主要优势。通过让基础科学家与医学微生物学家接触，BBM 促进了技术转让。基础和应用微生物学此外，通过针对年轻研究人员，我们相信这次会议为刚刚开始职业生涯的研究人员提供了一个独特的机会，这意味着整个论文、博士后项目、或可设置实验室 围绕了解微生物对人类健康和环境影响的新方法。