Meeting: FASEB Conference on Mechanisms in Plant Development, July 30 - August 4, 2017 Saxtons River, Vermont, USA

会议：FASEB 植物发育机制会议，2017 年 7 月 30 日至 8 月 4 日美国佛蒙特州萨克斯顿河

• 批准号: 1737719
• 负责人: Doris Wagner
• 金额: $ 1.95万
• 依托单位: Federation of Amer Societies For Exper Biology
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-05-01 至 2018-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1737719&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Meeting; FASEB; Conference; Mechanisms; Plant

Non-technical description:This project will promote interactions and information exchange between biologists who are using different scientific approaches to resolve how plants--the major sources of our food--grow and develop. These interactions will take place at the 15th International meeting on Mechanisms in Plant Development, which will be held from July 30th to August 4th 2017 in Saxtons River, Vermont, USA. This meeting is the only regularly held international conference devoted entirely to plant developmental biology, the study of how plants grow and make different structures, such as leaves, fruits and grains, that are critical to our agricultural economy. Discoveries in developmental biology may help improve crop yield, quality and stress tolerance, as well as reducing needs for fertilizers and other inputs. This project is special because the small size and secluded location of the meeting make it a fantastic opportunity for discussion of new ideas and emerging concepts, as well as for developing professional networks. Half of the meeting time will be devoted to presentations from early career, women and underrepresented minority scientists. The results of the conference will be summarized by meeting participants and made available to the general public by postings on publicly accessible websites including 'The Node'. Materials will also be provided directly to participants to spread the exciting new findings presented at the meeting.Technical description:This conference is an important and unique scientific meeting where the intersections of plant development, signaling, modeling and genomics are explored through talks, poster sessions, and intensive scientific discussion. The meeting includes outstanding researchers from around the world, presenting cutting edge research directed towards a fundamental understanding of how different aspects of plant growth and development are controlled in response to intrinsic and external signals, and how such mechanisms are modified over evolutionary time. This meeting will cover broad areas of plant development, including sessions on local and long-range signals, the interface between cell and developmental biology, new approaches to modeling development and plants emerging as new models for important developmental traits. This year includes more plant/environmental interactions (biotic and abiotic) because plant life histories combined with new technologies make plants especially well-suited to pioneer an understanding of the positive and negative interactions between a complex multicellular organism and the world around it. The conference will also promote education of a diverse group of scientists at all career levels. Graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and young faculty will be strongly encouraged to submit poster abstracts, and nearly half the speakers will be chosen from these submitted abstracts. Participation by underrepresented minority and female scientists will also be strongly encouraged; this will be achieved by identification and encouragement of individuals, by contacting networks and academic institutions that serve underrepresented minorities, as well as by advertising the conference widely. The results of the conference will be widely disseminated through a written summary posted online and slides to be used by meeting participants to spread the exciting new findings presented.

非技术描述：该项目将促进使用不同科学方法来解决植物（我们食物的主要来源）如何发展和发展的生物学家之间的互动和信息交流。这些互动将在2017年7月30日至8月4日在美国佛蒙特州萨克斯顿河上举行的第15届植物开发机制国际会议上。这次会议是唯一一项全定期举办的国际会议，该会议完全致力于植物发育生物学，研究植物如何生长和制造不同的结构，例如叶子，水果和谷物，这对我们的农业经济至关重要。发育生物学的发现可能有助于提高作物产量，质量和胁迫耐受性，并减少对肥料和其他投入的需求。该项目之所以特别，是因为会议的规模小和僻静的位置使其成为讨论新想法和新兴概念以及发展专业网络的绝佳机会。会议时间的一半将致力于早期职业，妇女和代表性不足的少数族裔科学家的演讲。会议的结果将通过与参与者会面总结，并通过在包括“节点”在内的公开访问网站上发布给公众。材料还将直接向参与者提供，以传播会议上提出的令人兴奋的新发现。技术描述：这次会议是一次重要而独特的科学会议，在该会议上，通过谈判，海报会议和强化的科学讨论来探索植物开发，信号，建模和基因组学的相互作用。这次会议包括来自世界各地的杰出研究人员，介绍了尖端研究，该研究旨在基本理解植物生长和发育的不同方面如何响应内在和外部信号，以及如何在进化时间内修改这种机制。这次会议将涵盖植物开发的广泛领域，包括有关局部和远程信号的会议，细胞与发育生物学之间的界面，建模开发的新方法以及作为重要发育特征的新模型而出现的植物。今年包括更多的植物/环境相互作用（生物和非生物），因为植物生命历史与新技术相结合，使植物特别适合开拓人们了解复杂的多细胞生物与周围世界之间的正相互作用和负面相互作用。会议还将在各个职业级别上促进对各种科学家的教育。强烈鼓励研究生，博士后研究员和年轻教职员工提交海报摘要，将从这些提交的摘要中选择近一半的演讲者。代表性不足的少数群体和女科学家的参与也将受到强烈的鼓励；这将通过与个人的识别和鼓励，通过与服务不足的少数群体以及广泛广泛广泛传播的网络和学术机构联系来实现。会议的结果将通过在线发布的书面摘要和幻灯片来广泛传播，并会见参与者以传播令人兴奋的新发现。

项目成果

2017 FASEB Mechanisms in Plant Development Meeting Summary

2017年FASEB植物开发机制会议纪要

• 发表时间: 2017
• 期刊: Development
• 影响因子: 4.6
• 作者: Margaret Frank, Ora Hazak