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

该提案要求支持将于1995年3月29日至4月4日在南卡罗来纳州希尔顿黑德岛举行的“植物形态发生前沿”基斯通研讨会。会议将与另一个Keystone研讨会“植物中的信号转导”同时举行，并将举行两次联合全体会议，将两组科学家聚集在一起讨论共同感兴趣的主题。植物发育的区域非常多样化；然而，随着现代细胞和分子信息的获取，共同的主题开始出现。因此，在这个时候，必须让传统上多样化领域的工人了解最新进展，以便开发新的综合技术。到目前为止，还没有一个会议集中把细胞和分子生物学家聚集在一起，仅仅是为了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化为位置信息；以及细胞壁的组成部分，如何反过来，暗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.