Conference on Frontiers of Plant Morphogenesis Keystone Symposium, Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, March 29 - April 4, 1995

这项提案请求支持将于1995年3月29日至4月4日在南卡罗来纳州希尔顿海德岛举行的Keystone研讨会，即植物形态发生的前沿。会议将与另一场名为植物信号转导的Keystone研讨会同时举行，并将举行两次联合全体会议，让两组科学家齐聚一堂，讨论共同感兴趣的话题。植物发育的领域是非常多样化的；然而，随着现代细胞和分子信息的获得，共同的主题开始出现。因此，目前至关重要的是，必须让传统不同领域的工作者了解最新进展，以便开发新的合成方法。到目前为止，还没有一次会议集中于将细胞和分子生物学家聚集在一起，唯一的目的是提出和讨论形态发生方面的问题。这是第一次将有兴趣了解基因表达如何影响和受第二信使影响的工作人员聚集在一起的会议；细胞骨架如何将这些信息转换为位置信息；以及壁组件如何反过来提示这些位置数据来定义植物细胞的形态，最终定义植物的整体形状。

This proposal requests support for a Keystone Symposium, Frontiers of Plant Morphogenesis, to be held at Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, from March 29 through April 4, 1995. The meeting will be held concurrently with another Keystone Symposium, Signal Transduction in Plants, and there will be two joint plenary sessions that will bring together both groups of scientists for discussion of topics of mutual interest. The area of plant development is tremendously diverse; however with the acquisition of modern cellular and molecular information, common themes are beginning to emerge. It is therefore essential, at this time, that workers in traditionally diverse areas be apprised of recent advances in order for new syntheses to be developed. To date, there has not been a meeting that has concentrated on bringing cell and molecular biologists together for the sole intent of presenting and discussing problems in morphogenesis. This is the first meeting that will bring together workers who are interested in understanding how gene expression affects, and is affected by, second messengers; how this information is translated by the cytoskeleton into positional information; and how the wall components, in turn, cue this positional data to define the morphology of plant cells which ultimately defines the overall shape of the plant.