Dealing with the Unknown: Bacterial Stress Responses Across Time and Space

If you wish to be considered for a short talk, please submit your abstract by April 15th. All short talk selections be made by the conference chairs after that date to fulfill program requirements. You will be notified via email if you have been selected for a short talk after that date.

Bacteria face a nearly constant onslaught of diverse stressors both expected (e.g., nutrient fluctuations, temperature changes, phage predation, etc) and unknown (e.g., novel antibiotics, unanticipated changes in environment, etc). How they detect and respond to such stressors largely determines their survival in a world of fierce competition. The 2024 Microbial Stress Response GRC will feature the latest, cutting-edge research into all facets of how bacteria sense, respond, and adapt to stress. The talks and posters presented will showcase the many approaches being taken to understand bacterial stress responses, including genetic, biochemical, structural, imaging, computational, and genome-scale assays. A range of organisms and scales of study, from the molecular to the population level, will be included.

The program will feature a diverse and distinguished set of invited speakers as well as many talks selected from submitted abstracts that highlight early-stage investigators, postdocs, and graduate students. Daily poster sessions will be a major element of the meeting, enabling the dynamic exchange of new results and ongoing work, while promoting interactions between conference participants at every level. Diversity and inclusion will be emphasized throughout the meeting, with a GRC Power Hour focusing on group discussion. Finally, as in past years, this GRC will be preceded by a GRS that focuses entirely on grad students and postdocs.