Meeting: 6th Pan American Plant Membrane Biology Workshop, Vancouver, Canada, June 24-28, 2018

会议：第六届泛美植物膜生物学研讨会，加拿大温哥华，2018 年 6 月 24-28 日

• 批准号: 1827353
• 负责人: Mechthild Tegeder
• 金额: $ 1.5万
• 依托单位: Washington State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-05-01 至 2019-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1827353&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Meeting; 6th; Pan; American; Plant

Plants provide this planet with the air we breathe and the food we eat. We consume plants either directly, or by eating animals that have been fed with plants. Therefore, life on earth would simply not be possible without plants. The calories, amino acids, vitamins and mineral ions our bodies require are taken up by plants from the environment or they are made within plant cells after uptake of some of the building blocks. Plants use these nutrients for growth and the production of edible organs such as tubers and seeds. However, abiotic stresses, including soil mineral limitation, drought and high temperature, and biotic stresses such as pathogen and insect pest attacks provide a threat to plant food production. But how can plants achieve mineral ion uptake, even under stress, and how are they able to use the nutrients and produce the tissues and organs needed for the human food supply? Plants have evolved specific membrane proteins that can sense and transfer environmental signals, as well as recognize and transport mineral ions from the outside environment into the cell. Novel scientific approaches have revolutionized our understanding of the structure and function of plant membranes, and this workshop will address important breakthroughs in membrane biology with respect to signaling, nutrient transport and plant growth. We expect that the scientific interactions will promote discussions on how to meet the challenge of feeding the global community of tomorrow and will facilitate advances essential for food security.The 6th Pan American Membrane Biology Workshop will be held in Vancouver, BC, Canada from June 24-28th, 2018. It will focus on topics covering important breakthroughs in plant membrane biology and their importance for plant growth and adaption to environmental stresses. Given the importance of membrane biology and its potential to continue to make groundbreaking discoveries, there is pressing scientific demand for opportunities to communicate and interact. This meeting will be both stimulating and timely, and specific objectives are (1) to organize and support knowledge exchange and discussions on the latest scientific advances in membrane biology research, including in areas related to plant membrane structure, transport, protein trafficking, and signal transduction, (2) to promote interactions between scientists and trainees to share new discoveries in the field of membrane biology as it relates to plant growth, development and nutrition, and to enhance training and new collaborations that will move the field forward and (3) to directly involve newly independent scientists and trainees, with emphasis on diversity and gender. The workshop agenda will include discussions for trainee mentorship, publication strategies and emerging areas of plant membrane biology in a supportive setting to promote trainee and established researcher interactions. The broader impacts of this meeting are manifold. It will promote participation of groups underrepresented in science and support diversity in the plant biology community by connecting the trainees with senior scientist role models. It will further provide access to cutting edge science and advance knowledge in membrane biology essential for plant production. This workshop award is supported by the Division of Integrative Organismal Systems and the Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

植物为这个星球提供了我们呼吸的空气和我们吃的食物。 我们直接食用植物，或者通过吃被植物的动物。因此，没有植物，地球上的生命将是不可能的。我们的身体所需的卡路里，氨基酸，维生素和矿物离子被环境中的植物吸收，或者在吸收某些构建块后将其制成植物细胞。植物将这些营养素用于生长和可食用器官（例如块茎和种子）的生产。然而，非生物压力，包括土壤矿物质的限制，干旱和高温以及病原体和虫害攻击等生物胁迫，对植物粮食生产构成了威胁。但是，即使在压力下，植物如何才能实现矿物离子的吸收，以及如何使用营养并产生人类食物供应所需的组织和器官？植物已经进化了特定的膜蛋白，这些膜蛋白可以感知和传递环境信号，并识别和将矿物离子从外部环境中识别和传输到细胞中。新颖的科学方法彻底改变了我们对植物膜的结构和功能的理解，该研讨会将解决有关信号，营养运输和植物生长的膜生物学的重要突破。我们预计科学互动将促进有关如何应对明天全球社区的挑战的讨论，并促进对粮食安全至关重要的进步。第六届PAN American Membrane Biology研讨会将在加拿大温哥华市，加拿大的温哥华，2018年6月24日至28日，将重点介绍植物膜质量和植物生长的主题。鉴于膜生物学的重要性及其继续进行开创性发现的潜力，因此对进行交流和互动的机会的科学需求迫切。 This meeting will be both stimulating and timely, and specific objectives are (1) to organize and support knowledge exchange and discussions on the latest scientific advances in membrane biology research, including in areas related to plant membrane structure, transport, protein trafficking, and signal transduction, (2) to promote interactions between scientists and trainees to share new discoveries in the field of membrane biology as it relates to plant growth, development and nutrition, and to enhance training and new将向前进的合作，（3）直接涉及新独立的科学家和受训者，重点是多样性和性别。研讨会议程将包括有关学员指导，出版策略和植物膜生物学的新兴领域的讨论，以促进受训者和建立的研究人员互动。这次会议的更广泛影响是多种多样的。它将通过将学员与高级科学家榜样联系起来，在科学和支持植物生物学社区的多样性中的人数不足。它将进一步提供获得尖端科学的访问，并提高膜生产所必需的膜生物学知识。 该研讨会奖得到了综合有机系统和分子和蜂窝生物科学的部门的支持。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子和更广泛影响的评估审查标准的评估来支持的。