2018 Microbial Stress Response GRC/GRS
Abstract
Bacteria inhabit every niche from hydrothermal vents, to lakes hidden under the polar ice caps, to the mammalian intestine. Accordingly, these microbes have evolved numerous clever and unique strategies to cope with a wide range of challenging conditions. Bacteria possess complex regulatory circuits that coordinate metabolic flux with growth to ensure the efficient partitioningof limited resources, maximize proliferative potential, and preserve viability in response to frequently changing conditions. These critical regulatory networks are the bacterial equivalent of an Achilles??? heel, as defects in these systems render bacteria unable to adapt to changes in temperature, nutrient availability, osmotic and oxidative stress, and challenges presented by antibiotics, other microbes, and host immune systems. Delineating and understanding howmicrobes respond to stress impacts areas ranging from medicine to biofuels.The latest advances in the field are the subject of the 2018 Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Microbial Stress Response to be held from July 15-20 at Mount Holyoke College. Together with the accompanying Gordon Research Seminar (GRS) (July 14-15) aimed at student and postdoctoral level investigators, this meeting brings together a demographically diverse group of200 international scientists seeking to understand how microbes sense and respond to challenging and ever-changing environments Over 50% of invited speakers are women and 20% of oral presentations will be selected from the submitted abstracts with an emphasis on those by new investigators, postdoctoral scientists and graduate students. In addition to welcominginvestigators from academia, we are also inviting researchers from companies, federal labs and funding agencies (e.g. ARO, ONR, NSF). Attendees are encouraged to present posters of their most exciting research. Emphasis will be placed on new approaches to understanding interactions between microbes and the environment, particularly modern imaging, genetic, metagenomic, and computational strategies for the analysis of bacterial physiology and community structures under conditions of stress and competition. The diversity of attendees and the highly interactive nature of the meeting ensures that students and postdoctoral attendees will be exposed to a wide range of opportunities to apply their knowledge of microbial stress response mechanisms in both basic and applied settings.
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- Jul 26, 2018
- Source ID
- N000141812615
Entities
People
- Petra Levin
Organizations
- Gordon Research Conferences
- Office of Naval Research
- United States Navy