U.S.-Japan Joint Seminar: Microbial and Plant Metabolism--Function through Genomics

0137409谢尔曼该奖项支持美国科学家参与美国- 2002年11月22日至26日在夏威夷檀香山举行的日本微生物和植物代谢-通过基因组学发挥作用研讨会。 协办者是印第安纳州普渡大学的路易斯·谢尔曼教授和日本冈山大学的高桥雄一郎教授。 会议将讨论过去两年在光合微生物，特别是蓝藻的基因组测序方面取得的非凡进展。 会议将对十几种菌株进行测序，这将在许多不同学科以及我们对基因调控的理解中产生广泛的新发现。 其中两种新测序的生物包括原绿球藻菌株，它们在公海中具有巨大的重要性，可能是地球上最丰富的光合生物。 另外两个是固氮菌株，它们将为分析固氮、异形胞发育以及这些过程的调节方式提供巨大的机会。本次会议将讨论的科学意义是相当广泛的。 蓝细菌和其他光合光养生物已成为最重要的模式生物之一，通过这些生物可以研究生物圈的许多重要问题。 这次会议将为基因组学这一广泛领域的主要参与者提供一个及时的机会，讨论他们的成果，讨论最近工作的成功和困难，并集中讨论今后的方向。 社区的年轻成员将被邀请参加国际合作，并希望在整个职业生涯中保持研究合作。最重要的是，蓝藻代表了了解细胞中每种蛋白质功能的最好和最先进的模型系统之一。 从这种光合微生物中获得的结果将对以同样目标为目标的拟南芥计划具有重要价值。 蓝藻的结果将是重要的叶绿体功能的理解，以及提供关键信息，细胞如何生活，复制，并响应其环境。 研讨会的会议记录将在网上发布。

0137409ShermanThis award supports the participation of American scientists in a U.S.-Japan seminar on microbial and plant metabolism--function through genomics to be held in Honolulu, Hawaii from November 22-26, 2002. The co-organizers are Professor Louis Sherman of Purdue University in Indiana and Professor Yuichiro Takahashi of Okayama University in Japan. The meeting will cover the extraordinary progress that has been made in the last two years in sequencing of the genomes of photosynthetic microbes, especially cyanobacteria. Over one dozen strains will have been sequenced by the meeting and this will lead to a wide array of new findings in many different disciplines and also in our understanding of gene regulation. Two of the newly sequenced organisms include Prochlorococcus strains that are of tremendous importance in the open ocean and may be the most abundant photosynthetic organisms on the planet. Two others are N2-fixing strains that will provide a tremendous opportunity to analyze N2 fixation, heterocyst development and the way in which these processes are regulated.The significance of the science to be discussed at this meeting is quite wide-ranging. The cyanobacteria and the other photosynthetic phototrophs have become among the most important of all model organisms and that a multitude of important problems for the biosphere can be studied through these organisms. This meeting will represent a timely opportunity for the major participants in this broad field of genomics to discuss their results, discuss the successes and the difficulties of recent work and focus on future directions. Younger members of the community will be invited into the international collaboration and hopefully maintain research collaborations throughout their careers. Most importantly, cyanobacteria represent one of the best and most advanced model systems for understanding the functionality of each protein in a cell. Results obtained from this photosynthetic microbe will be of great value for the Arabidopsis program aimed at the same goal. The cyanobacterial results will be significant for an understanding of chloroplast function as well as providing critical information on how a cell lives, replicates, and responds to its environment. Proceedings of the seminar will be published on the Web.