Conference: Support for Young Investigators to Attend the 17th International Conference on Plant Growth Substances, July 1-6, 2001, in Brno, Czech Republic

请支持将于2001年7月1日至6日在捷克共和国布尔诺举行的关于植物生长和发育的国际会议。本次会议将是国际植物生长物质协会（IPGSA）主办的第17次系列会议。这些会议每三年举行一次，最近两次是在明尼苏达州（1995年）和东京（1998年）召开的。由于遗传学和分子克隆领域的进步，对植物激素的感知和作用的理解取得了快速进展。这些进展已经导致识别参与激素信号感知的基因，植物生物学家现在开始解开连接激素受体和细胞反应的信号转导途径。最近发表的拟南芥和水稻完整基因组序列将使我们对激素作用的理解取得更大的进展，基因组学方法将在布尔诺会议上占据突出地位。第17届国际植物生长物质会议的目标是将在该领域工作的研究人员聚集在一起，报告新的发展并分享新的想法。我们的目标是将年轻的研究人员介绍到这个令人兴奋的领域，这笔资金将用于支持美国年轻研究人员参加本次会议的旅费和住宿。全体会议和专题讨论会的主题包括信号转导、激素稳态、激素在应对环境胁迫中的作用、转基因植物在激素研究中的使用和应用、新信号分子的鉴定、激素与病原体和共生体的相互作用以及激素的感知和敏感性。该项目有望令人兴奋，并刺激对植物生长调节剂的研究。这些化合物长期以来一直被认为对美国农业很重要，我们对其作用的细胞和分子基础的理解对农业的长期可持续性至关重要。

Support is requested for an international conference on plant growth and development to be held in Brno, Czech Republic from July 1-6, 2001. This conference will be the 17th in a series of conferences sponsored by the International Plant Growth Substance Association (IPGSA). These meetings are held every three years and the last two were convened in Minnesota (1995) and Makuhari Messe, Tokyo (1998). Progress in understanding the perception and action of plant hormones has advanced at a rapid pace as a result of advances in the areas of genetics and molecular cloning. These advances have led to the identification of genes that are involved in the perception of hormonal signals, and plant biologists are now beginning to unravel the signal transduction pathways that link hormone receptors to cellular response. The recent publication of the complete Arabidopsis thaliana and rice genome sequences will see an even more dramatic advances in our understanding of hormone action, and genomics approaches will feature prominently in the Brno meeting. The goals of the 17th International Conference on Plant Growth Substances are to bring together researchers who are working in this field to report on new developments and to share new ideas. Our goal is to introduce younger investigators to this exciting area and the funds provided from this grant will be used to support the travel and lodging of junior US investigators to this meeting. Topics to be covered in plenary sessions and symposia include signal transduction, hormone homeostasis, the roles of hormones in responses to environmental stresses, the use and application of transgenic plants in hormone research, the identification of new signalling molecules, the interaction of hormones with pathogens and symbionts, and hormone perception and sensitivity. The program promises to be exciting and to stimulate research on plant growth regulators. These compounds have long been established as important for U.S. agriculture, and our understanding of the cellular and molecular basis of their action is essential for the long-term sustainability of agriculture.