Conference: Plant Virology Satellite Symposium for 31st Annual Meeting of American Society of Virology, July 21-25, 2012 at the Monona Terrace Convention Center in Madison, WI

会议：美国病毒学学会第 31 届年会植物病毒学卫星研讨会，2012 年 7 月 21-25 日在威斯康星州麦迪逊莫诺纳台会议中心举行

• 批准号: 1226763
• 负责人: Anne Simon
• 金额: $ 0.6万
• 依托单位: University of Maryland, College Park
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-06-01 至 2013-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1226763&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Conference; Plant; Virology; Satellite; Symposium

Intellectual Merit: This project is to help support the Plant Virology Satellite Saturday Symposium at the 31st Annual Meeting of the American Society of Virology, which will take place from July 21-25, 2012 at the Monona Terrace Convention Center, Madison, Wisconsin. The Symposium is sponsored by the Plant Virology Club (PVC), an organization within the American Society of Virology that was initiated to support research and speakers at the annual meeting who focus on plant viruses. The PVC sponsors a one day Symposium every other year at the Annual Meeting of the ASV. The Symposium this year was organized by Dr. Anne Simon, the elected Plant Virus Councilor and the PI on this project. Dr. Simon has worked throughout her career to bring together researchers working on plant and animal viruses and to make animal virus researchers more aware of the exciting work that uses plant viruses as models. Most virologists receive their graduate education in Medical Schools, which nearly uniformly ignore research that pertains to plant viruses. Similarly, most students studying plant viruses are educated in plant pathology departments that likewise spend little time on animal viruses. This separation has created a gap in the appreciation of the research currently being conducted using plant viruses by animal virologists working in the same area. This lack of appreciation reduces the impact of the work on model plant viruses and also has resulted in the loss of support (from NIH and USDA) for research that uses model plant viruses. The low level of 'cross-talk' between animal and plant virologists has also retarded research in the broad areas of virus replication/gene expression and RNA structure/function as well as innate immunity. The most prominent example of the negative impact on research that accompanies segregation of viruses according to host is the field of RNA silencing, which was well known to exist as a protective mechanism against plant viruses before its belated discovery in nematodes. Conferences that intermix talks on animal and plant viruses are rare (e.g., the Plus-strand RNA Virus meetings every three years), and the vast majority of talks even at these meetings continue to focus on animal viruses. The idea for this year's Satellite Symposium, entitled: Virus Replication and Movement: Building Bridges Between Plant and Animal Viruses came from an issue of Current Opinion in Virology (Nov, 2011), which was edited by Anne Simon and Grant McFadden. This issue was designed around a series of topics that were relevant to both plant and animal virologists, with each topic covered by an animal and a plant virologist. These topics are: Virus replication; Virus translation; Virus origins; Virus reorganization of intracellular membranes; and Virus cell-to-cell movement. The authors, selected as being world leaders in their fields, incorporated information from their counterpart's chapter into their submission, to better tie together the intersecting fields. Dr. Simon's idea was to organize a novel Plant Virology Symposium around each of these topics and invite the authors to speak. All authors gave enthusiastic agreement to come and present their current research, and place this research within the broader disciplines of plant and animal virus research. This should result in a broadening of the appreciation of research fields regardless of the host by audience members and hopefully foster new areas of communication within the broad field of Virology.Broader Impacts: Graduate Students/Postdocs who work on plant/insect/fungal viruses will be eligible for these NSF-sponsored awards. This will assure that the students benefiting are not engaged in human health/related research, which is less appropriate for NSF support. Attention will be paid to distribution of the travel awards to labs in all regions of the US, and preference will be given to students/postdocs who are underrepresented minorities, women and persons with disabilities. We have also arranged with Elsevier to present free copies of the Current Opinion in Virology that this symposium is based on, which should allow participants to immediately access review articles that span animal and plant virology, thus further broadening the educational opportunity. Dr. Simon has spent her career advocating for the broadening of the education of virologists in this country and this symposium is the culmination of these efforts. These travel awards will allow students who might not have been able to attend for financial reasons due to the current funding climate, to participate in this exciting intersection among many fields of virology.

知识分子优点：该项目旨在帮助支持植物病毒学卫星星期六在美国病毒学学会的第31届年度会议上，该会议将于2012年7月21日至25日在威斯康星州麦迪逊市的Monona Terrace Convention Center举行。该研讨会由植物病毒学俱乐部（PVC）赞助，该组织是美国病毒学学会中的一个组织，该组织旨在支持专注于植物病毒的年度会议上的研究和演讲者。 PVC每隔一年在ASV年度会议上赞助每天一次研讨会。今年的研讨会是由当选的植物病毒议员和PI的Anne Simon博士组织的。西蒙博士在整个职业生涯中一直致力于将研究人员聚集在植物和动物病毒上，并使动物病毒研究人员更加了解使用植物病毒作为模型的令人兴奋的工作。大多数病毒学家接受了医学院的研究生教育，这些研究生几乎统一地忽略了与种植病毒有关的研究。同样，大多数研究植物病毒的学生都在植物病理学部门接受教育，这些部门几乎没有时间在动物病毒上。这种分离在同一地区工作的动物病毒学家目前使用植物病毒进行的研究造成了差距。缺乏欣赏会减少该作品对模型植物病毒的影响，还导致使用模型植物病毒的研究丧失了支持（来自NIH和USDA）。动物和植物病毒学家之间的“交叉言论”水平的低水平也阻碍了病毒复制/基因表达和RNA结构/功能以及先天免疫的广泛领域的研究。根据宿主对病毒隔离的研究的负面影响的最突出的例子是RNA沉默的领域，在其在线虫中发现了植物病毒之前，众所周知，它是一种针对植物病毒的保护机制。关于动物和植物病毒的交流会议的会议很少见（例如，每三年的链链RNA病毒会议一次），即使在这些会议上，绝大多数谈话也继续关注动物病毒。今年的卫星研讨会的想法，题为：病毒复制和运动：动植物病毒之间的建筑桥梁来自Anne Simon和Grant McFadden编辑的当前病毒学问题（2011年11月）。这个问题围绕着一系列与动植物病毒学家相关的主题，每个主题都被动物和植物病毒学家涵盖。这些主题是：病毒复制；病毒翻译；病毒起源；细胞内膜的病毒重组；和病毒细胞向细胞运动。作者被选为自己领域的世界领导者，将其章节中的信息纳入他们的提交中，以更好地将相交领域的领域联系在一起。西蒙博士的想法是在每个主题中组织一次新型的植物病毒学研讨会，并邀请作者讲话。所有作者都给出了热情的协议，以介绍他们当前的研究，并将这项研究置于动植物病毒研究的更广泛学科中。这应该导致对研究领域的欣赏，无论受众群体的宿主如何，并希望在病毒学广泛领域培养新的沟通领域。BROADERIMPACTS：从事植物/昆虫/真菌病毒工作的研究生/博士学位将有资格获得这些NSF赞助的奖项。这将确保受益的学生不从事人类健康/相关研究，这不太适合NSF支持。将注意将旅行奖的分配给美国所有地区的实验室，并将优先考虑代表人数不足的少数民族，妇女和残疾人的学生/博士后。我们还与Elsevier安排了该研讨会所基于的病毒学中当前意见的免费副本，这应该使参与者能够立即访问跨越动物和植物病毒学的审查文章，从而进一步扩大教育机会。西蒙博士的职业生涯倡导在这个国家扩大病毒学家的教育，这次研讨会是这些努力的高潮。这些旅行奖将使由于当前的资金氛围而出于经济原因而无法参加的学生可以参加许多病毒学领域的令人兴奋的十字路口。