Conference: 2002 Gordon Research Conference on CO2 Fixation and Metabolism In Green Plants; August 11-16, 2002, South Hadley, Massachusetts

这笔赠款为戈登研究会议(GRC)提供支持，该会议将于2002年8月11日至16日在芒特霍利奥克学院举行，这是2002年丹佛植物生物学会议四天后举行的关于绿色植物中二氧化碳固定和代谢的会议。这一国际GRC定期每三年举行一次，在美国和西欧的地点之间轮流举行。它对广泛的、前瞻性的讨论的具体关注是任何其他与植物相关的会议所不能复制的。国际公认的组委会由Raymond Chollet博士(内布拉斯加州大学-林肯分校)和Christine Foyer博士(IACR-Rothamsted，英国)担任当选联席主席，George Bowes博士(佛罗里达大学)和Susanne von Caemmerer博士(澳大利亚国立大学)担任联席副主席，制定并最终确定了一个及时、令人兴奋的计划，包括9个非正式会议和4个投稿海报会议。与本GRC和该领域不断发展的基础科学的最新趋势相一致，前几届会议将在植物光合作用固定和代谢的总主题下进行综合和相当广泛的讨论，包括[1]生态系统中的光合作用，[2，3]二氧化碳同化酶及其调节，[4]二氧化碳浓缩机制，[5]淀粉和蔗糖代谢，[6]C和N信号，[8]叶绿体-线粒体相互作用，以及[9]关于绿色植物中叶绿体和光合作用在次生代谢中新出现的作用的特色的宴会后介绍。此外，一个完整的会议[7]将致力于早期职业生涯的科学家和/或从海报演示和/或最近的文献中挑选出来的最新的、热门的新闻成果。按照这些思路，这笔资助的关键、唯一目标是为12名职业生涯早期的美国植物科学家提供部分、固定费用和/或旅行支持，其中包括研究生和高级本科生；博士后研究助理；以及没有资金的初级PI。这些年轻的美国科学家的参与不仅对他们有巨大的专业利益和鼓励，而且对GRC的动态、尖端性质、第7次会议的成功以及这一活跃的实验植物生物学领域未来令人兴奋的进展也有帮助。

This grant provides support for the Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on CO2 FIXATION & METABOLISM IN GREEN PLANTSlI to be held at Mount Holyoke College on August 11 th -16 th , 2002, four days after the Plant Biology 2002 meeting in Denver. This international GRC regularly takes place on a triennial basis, alternating between sites in the US and Western Europe. Its specific focus on extensive, forward-thinking discussion is not duplicated by any other plant-related conference. The internationally recognized organizing committee, comprised of Drs. Raymond Chollet (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) and Christine Foyer (IACR-Rothamsted, UK) as the elected Co-Chairs and Drs. George Bowes (University of Florida) and Susanne von Caemmerer (Australian NationalUniversity) as the elected Co-Vice-Chairs, has developed and finalized a timely, exciting program consisting of nine informal sessions and four contributed poster sessions. Consistent with recent trends in this GRC and this field's advancing basic science, the former sessions will be both integrative and rather wide-ranging under the general theme of photosynthetic CO2-fixation and metabolism in plants, including [1] Photosynthesis in the Ecosystem, [2, 3] CO2-Assimilating Enzymes & Their Regulation, [4] CO2-Concentrating Mechanisms, [5] Starch and Sucrose Metabolism, [6] C- and N-Signaling, [8] Chloroplast-Mitochondrial Interactions, and [9] a featured, after-banquet presentation on the emerging role of the chloroplast and photosynthesis in secondary metabolism in green plants. In addition, one entire session [7] will be devoted to early-career scientists and/or late-breaking, hot-off-the-press results selected from among the poster presentations and/or very recent literature. Along these lines, the critical, singular goal of this grant is to provide partial, fixed-fee and/or travel support to 12 early-career, US plant scientists, including graduate and advanced undergraduate students; postdoctoral research associates; and unfunded, beginning PIs. The participation of these junior US scientists will not only be of immense professional benefit and encouragement to them, but also to the dynamic, cutting-edge nature of a GRC, the success of Session 7, and to future exciting advances in this active field of experimental plant biology.