2005 Temperature Stress in Plants Gordon Conference, to be held January 30 - February 4, 2005 in Ventura, CA

本项目的目的是帮助支持四名研究生和博士后研究员出席2005年1月30日至2月4日在加州文图拉举行的2005年戈登植物温度胁迫研究会议。 组织者是加州大学滨江综合基因组生物学研究所所长朱建康和赫尔辛基大学生物科学系教员Tapio Palva。 本次高规格会议的目的是促进植物温度胁迫领域世界顶级领导者之间的互动和交流。 会议规模不大（不超过135名与会者），将有利于促进这类互动。 学生和博士后的参与将受到鼓励，为他们提供一个无与伦比的机会，彼此互动，并与学科的领导者。 除了促进该领域的知识和促进学生教育外，另一个更广泛的影响是会议将赞助两项特别倡议：多样性倡议和早期职业科学家倡议，以鼓励1890年和其他主要少数民族机构的植物科学家以及早期职业科学家的参与。 NSF的支持将有助于为这些举措提供资金。

This purpose of this project is to help support attendance of four graduate students and postdoctoral fellows at the 2005 Gordon Research Conference on Temperature Stress in Plants, to be held January 30-February 4, 2005, in Ventura, California. The organizers are Jian-Kang Zhu, Director of the Institute for Integrative Genome Biology at the University of California, Riverside, and Tapio Palva, a faculty member in the Department of Biosciences at the University of Helsinki. The purpose of this high-profile conference is to foster interactions and exchange among the world's top leaders in the area of plant temperature stress. The meeting's modest size (no more than 135 participants) will be conducive to fostering these sorts of interactions. Student and postdoctoral participation will be encouraged, offering them an unparalleled opportunity to interact with one another and with leaders in the discipline. In addition to advancing knowledge in the field and contributing to student education, another broader impact is that the Conference will sponsor two special initiatives: a Diversity Initiative and an Early Career Scientist Initiative to encourage the participation of plant scientists from 1890 and other predominantly minority institutions, as well as early career scientists. NSF support will help fund these initiatives.