Conference: 39th MU Interdisciplinary Plant Group (IPG) Annual Symposium

会议：第39届密苏里大学跨学科植物组（IPG）年度研讨会

• 批准号: 2305283
• 负责人: Ruthie Angelovici
• 金额: $ 1.52万
• 依托单位: University of Missouri-Columbia
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-05-01 至 2024-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2305283&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Conference; 39th; MU; Interdisciplinary; Plant

Pathogens, insects, and different stresses such as flooding, prolonged droughts, and heat waves, inflict heavy losses to agricultural production worldwide and threaten global food security. The alarming increase in the frequency and intensity of these stresses, an outcome of global warming and climate change, highlights the importance of studying how plants can be made more resilient to stress. Based on these studies, new varieties of many different crops and trees can be developed with increased tolerance to different stresses. These would decrease annual damages associated with different pathogens, and stresses such as drought, flooding, or heat waves, preventing billions of dollars’ worth in damages to agriculture, and increasing food security under a changing climate. In addition to increasing the knowledge base of plant responses to abiotic stress, training of a new generation of researchers in interdisciplinary research methods is a must, as novel technologies that mitigate climate change would most likely come from interdisciplinary research. The current grant will support an interdisciplinary conference that focuses on how to make plants more tolerant to stress. The planned symposium will enhance the learning and networking opportunities afforded to students, postdoctoral fellows, and early career scientists and expose them to interdisciplinary research. Furthermore, by instilling the virtues of interdisciplinary collaboration early in students’ careers the conference will extend the benefits to society because the mindset and approaches needed to tackle big societal challenges will be taught to the next generation of scientists.Reactive oxygen species, and the changes they cause in the reduction–oxidation (redox) state of cells, are key signaling molecules required for the activation of plant acclimation and defense mechanisms. Dissecting and understanding how reactive oxygen species orchestrate plant responses to stress will significantly contribute to the overall efforts of the scientific community to improve plant tolerance to stress and mitigate some of the current and upcoming harsh environmental challenges. The 39th University of Missouri Interdisciplinary Plant Group’s Annual Symposium was therefore developed around the theme of Redox Regulation of Plant Stress and Development (May 23-26, 2023). This symposium will bring together experts at the intersections of different disciplines to educate the scientific community about reactive oxygen species and redox signaling and the many different processes tightly linked to them. The symposium will also broaden participation of underrepresented groups. It includes, for example, a diverse group of speakers, so that students from diverse backgrounds could see themselves represented. Of the 18 confirmed speakers, 8 are women, and 5 are of non-white ethnicity. Furthermore, early career scientists are included as invited speakers: 4 assistant professor-level and 1 postdoc, of which 3 are women and 2 are African American. This will provide a platform for women and underrepresented minorities to advance their careers by providing visibility of their work at a world-renowned meeting, attended by numerous distinguished scientists, two of whom are members of the National Academy of Sciences.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.

病原体、昆虫和洪水、长期干旱和热浪等不同胁迫给全世界农业生产造成严重损失，并威胁全球粮食安全，这些胁迫的频率和强度惊人地增加，这是全球变暖和气候的结果。变化，强调了研究如何使植物对胁迫更有抵抗力的重要性，基于这些研究，可以开发出许多不同作物和树木的新品种，以提高对不同胁迫的耐受性，这将减少与不同病原体相关的年度损害。以及干旱、洪水等压力，除了增加植物应对非生物胁迫的知识基础之外，还需要对新一代研究人员进行跨学科研究方法的培训。这是必须的，因为缓解气候变化的新技术很可能来自跨学科研究，目前的拨款将支持一个跨学科会议，重点讨论如何使植物更能耐受压力。计划中的研讨会将增加为人们提供的学习和交流机会。学生、博士后研究员和早期此外，通过在学生职业生涯早期灌输跨学科合作的优点，该会议将为社会带来好处，因为应对重大社会挑战所需的思维方式和方法将被传授给下一代。活性氧及其在细胞还原氧化（氧化还原）状态中引起的变化是激活植物适应和防御机制所需的关键信号分子。剖析和了解活性氧如何协调植物对胁迫的反应。将大大有助于因此，科学界为提高植物对胁迫的耐受性并减轻当前和即将到来的一些严酷环境挑战而做出的总体努力，第 39 届密苏里大学跨学科植物小组年度研讨会的主题是“植物胁迫和发育的氧化还原调节”。该研讨会将于 2023 年 5 月 23 日至 26 日举行，将汇集不同学科交叉领域的专家，向科学界介绍活性氧和氧化还原信号以及与其紧密相关的许多不同过程。例如，它还将扩大代表性不足的群体的参与，以便来自不同背景的学生能够看到自己的代表，在 18 名已确认的发言者中，有 8 名是女性，5 名是非白人。此外，还邀请了早期职业科学家作为受邀演讲者：4 名助理教授级别和 1 名博士后，其中 3 名是女性，2 名是非裔美国人，这将为女性和代表性不足的少数族裔提供一个平台，通过提高她们的知名度来促进她们的职业生涯。工作于这是一次世界知名的会议，众多杰出科学家出席，其中两位是美国国家科学院院士。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。