U.S.-Japan Joint Seminar: The Effects of Environmental Conditions on CO2 Fixation and the Photosynthetic Apparatus

该奖项支持美国科学家和工程师参加将于1998年11月在加利福尼亚州太平洋格罗夫举行的关于环境条件对二氧化碳固定和光合作用装置的影响的美日研讨会。协办人是华盛顿卡内基研究所的亚瑟·格罗斯曼博士和日本名古屋大学的大俣达夫教授。研讨会的重点将是光合生物应对环境的方式，并将包括来自不同学科的研究人员；其中一些学科强调还原论的方法，而另一些则在更全球范围内看待适应过程。前者通过提供详细的机制信息来帮助我们预测变化的后果，从而获得优势，而后者通常可以识别主要的大规模问题，并为简化论者提供对问题的看法。不同学科的研究人员之间的双边对话将有助于确定进一步分析的重要领域，并导致合作努力，以应付应付不断变化的环境条件的挑战。对这一广泛研究领域进行更详细的了解将有助于了解在特定环境中限制植物生长和生产力的因素。此外，它可能使我们能够扩大特定植物可以生存的环境范围，也可能为地球大气（气体成分、入射光强度、质量和温度）的长期变化如何影响植物的生长和光合作用提供新的见解。与该领域的日本专家交流想法和数据将使美国参与者能够推进自己的工作，并为未来的合作项目奠定基础。研讨会组织者特别努力让年轻的研究人员、博士后研究人员和研究生参与进来。会议记录预计将由组织者提供。＊＊＊

9726524 Grossman This award supports the participation of American scientists and engineers in a U.S.-Japan seminar on the effects of environmental conditions on CO2 fixation and the photosynthetic apparatus, to be held in Pacific Grove, California in November, 1998. The co-organizers are Dr. Arthur Grossman of the Carnegie Institution of Washington and Professor Tatsuo Omata of Nagoya University in Japan. The emphasis of the seminar will be on the ways in which photosynthetic organisms cope with their environment and will include researchers from different disciplines; some of these disciplines emphasize a reductionist approach while others view acclimation processes at the more global scale. The former gains strength by helping to provide detailed mechanistic information that can help us predict the consequences of change, while the latter can often identify major large scale problems and give the reductionists a perspective on the problem. A binational dialogue among the researchers of different disciplines will help identify important areas for further analysis and lead to collaborative efforts to meet the challenge of coping with changing environmental conditions. Developing a more detailed understanding of this broad area of research will help in understanding factors that limit plant growth and productivity in given environments. Additionally, it might enable us to extend the range of environments in which specific plants can survive and might also provide new insights into the ways in which long-term changes in the atmosphere of the earth (gas composition, incident light intensity and quality and temperature) will affect the growth and photosynthetic activity of plants. The exchange of ideas and data with Japanese experts in this field will enable U.S. participants to advance their own work, and will set the stage for future collaborative projects. Seminar organizers have made a special effort to involve younger researchers, postdoctoral resea rchers and graduate students. Proceedings of the meeting are expected to be made available by the organizers. ***