title: A tale of two machines: a review of the BLAST meeting, Tucson, AZ, 20-24 January 2013.
abstract: Since its inception, Bacterial Locomotion and Signal Transduction (BLAST) meetings have been the place to exchange and share the latest developments in the field of bacterial signal transduction and motility. At the 12th BLAST meeting, held last January in Tucson, AZ, researchers from all over the world met to report and discuss progress in diverse aspects of the field. The majority of these advances, however, came at the level of atomic level structures and their associated mechanisms. This was especially true of the biological machines that sense and respond to environmental changes.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hospital Epidemiology, Hannover Medical School, Carl-Neuberg Strasse 1, 30625, Hannover, Germany.
authors.forename: Christine
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Josenhans
authors.forename: Kirsten
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Jung
authors.forename: Christopher V
authors.initials: CV
authors.lastname: Rao
authors.forename: Alan J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Wolfe
mesh_terms: D000222:Adaptation, Physiological; D018407:Bacterial Physiological Phenomena; D001426:Bacterial Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism; D002633:Chemotaxis; D005407:Flagella / Q000502:physiology / Q000648:ultrastructure; D008565:Membrane Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism; D000072236:Methyl-Accepting Chemotaxis Proteins; D008954:Models, Biological; D009068:Movement; D015398:Signal Transduction
chemical_list: D001426:Bacterial Proteins; D008565:Membrane Proteins; D000072236:Methyl-Accepting Chemotaxis Proteins