2009 Plant Metabolic Engineering GRC & Graduate Research Seminar, July 11-17, in Waterville Valley, New Hampshire

2009年植物代谢工程戈登会议暨研究生研究研讨会将于2009年7月11日至17日在新罕布什尔州沃特维尔谷的沃特维尔谷度假村举行。戈登会议继续被认为是全球顶级科学会议之一，在有利于发展互动和探索新视野的环境中吸引顶级研究人员。这次会议将继续为发展多学科合作提供一个环境，这对于揭示植物代谢网络的动态复杂性和推进植物代谢工程的基础和应用研究至关重要。大约130-150名演讲者和参与者来自美国和国外的各个职业水平，并代表了来自学术界，工业界，私人机构和联邦实验室的机构。会议将包括九场全体会议，讨论前沿主题（包括代谢途径的组织和进化，系统生物学方法和代谢网络，以及理解复杂代谢和农艺性状）。扩大了从代表性不足的群体中招募妇女、残疾人和科学家作为演讲者和参与者的协调努力。除了标准的GRC外，在GRC之前还将举行植物代谢工程研究生研究研讨会（GRS），这可以作为未来会议的模板。GRS为初级科学家（博士生和博士后）提供了一个独特的场所，让他们在一个更轻松的环境中在同龄人面前展示他们的研究，旨在接触到代表性不足的学生群体和pre-professionals。2005年，研究生和博士后分别占GRC参与者的11%和18%，突出了该会议对年轻科学家的教育影响。2007年，GRC的参与者分别有21%和20%是研究生和博士后，这可能归因于会议的研究生研究研讨会部分。超过40%的GRS参与者是女性，她们都参加了GRC。与2007年的GRS类似，2009年的GRS将以“圆桌讨论”为中心，参与者有机会接触和公开讨论与所涉及领域相关的问题以及他们期望学校采取的方向，为参与者提供一个建立会议所有权的机会。我们将鼓励并期望GRS的参与者在GRC期间留下，进一步加强本次会议的教育成分。预计GRS将在吸引高素质的学生和博士后进入代谢工程领域方面产生重大影响，并为这些有抱负的年轻科学家提供重要的指导和职业发展机会。

The 2009 Plant Metabolic Engineering Gordon Conference & Graduate Research Seminar will take place July 11-17, 2009, at the Waterville Valley Resort in Waterville Valley, New Hampshire. The Gordon Conferences continue to be considered among the top scientific meetings worldwide, attracting top researchers in settings that are conducive to developing interactions and exploring new horizons. This conference will continue to provide a setting for developing multidisciplinary collaborations essential to unravel the dynamic complexity of plant metabolic networks and advance basic and applied research in plant metabolic engineering. The approximately 130-150 speakers and participants are from the US and abroad, at all career levels, and represent institutions from academia, industry, private institutes, and federal laboratories. The conference will consist of nine plenary sessions on leading edge topics (including organization and evolution of metabolic pathways, systems biology approaches and metabolic networks, and understanding complex metabolism and agronomic traits). Broader Impacts Concerted efforts to recruit women, persons with disabilities, and scientists from underrepresented groups as speakers and participants have been expanded. In addition to the standard GRC, a Graduate Research Seminar (GRS) in Plant Metabolic Engineering will be held immediately before the GRC, which could serve as a template for future meetings. The GRS provides a unique venue for junior scientists (Ph.D. students and postdoctoral fellows) to present their research in a more relaxed setting in front of their peers and is designed to reach out to under-represented groups of students and pre-professionals. In 2005, graduate students and postdocs accounted for 11% and 18% of the participants to the GRC, highlighting the educational impact of this conference on young scientists. In 2007, 21% and 20% of the GRC participants were graduate students and postdocs, which may be attributable to the Graduate Research Seminar component of the conference. Greater than 40% of the GRS participants were women, all of who attended the GRC. Similar to the 2007 GRS, the 2009 GRS will be centered on "Roundtable Discussions", opportunities for participants to be exposed to and openly discuss issues related to the fields to be covered as well as the direction that they expect the school to take, providing the participants with an opportunity to establish ownership of the meeting. Participants to the GRS will be encouraged and expected to stay for the GRC, further enhancing the educational component of this conference. It is expected that the GRS will have a significant impact in attracting high caliber students and postdocs to the field of metabolic engineering, and provide significant mentoring and professional development opportunities for these aspiring, junior scientists.