Meeting: MEPS 2013: Plant Signaling Systems-From Cells to Environment, College Station, TX, May 13-14, 2013

知识价值：该项目资助了2013年MEPS（分子与环境植物科学）研讨会：植物信号系统：从细胞到环境，该研讨会将于2013年5月13日至14日在德克萨斯州大学举行。该研讨会将是2005年开始的系列研讨会的第8次。这些研讨会的目的是通过将教师和学生聚集在一起，邀请国内外演讲者进行前沿研究，促进该地区的基础植物科学，并促进组织者，与会者和演讲者之间的对话和合作。本次研讨会的主题将讨论植物信号传导的发展领域，从细胞信号转导到植物对生物和非生物环境的反应。研讨会将包括邀请演讲者的口头报告，当地和区域参与者的海报会议，以及邀请演讲者的讨论会议。更广泛的影响：研讨会吸引了来自当地和地区机构的20多个学术项目的170多名与会者。除了支付部分会议费用外，从本提案中获得的资源将用于促进区域初级科学家（即本科生和研究生、博士后和早期职业教师）的参与，并通过支付他们的旅费，以数字方式传播研讨会成果，使其能够提供给更广泛的受众。邀请早期职业演讲者和他们与参与者的互动应该为年轻科学家提供榜样。最后，本次研讨会上研究小组之间的互动，就像过去一样，将促进新的合作和协同活动，从而最大限度地提高当前和未来研究人员的生产力。

Intellectual merit: This project funds the MEPS (Molecular and Environmental Plant Science) Symposium 2013: Plant Signaling Systems: From Cells to the Environment, to be held at Texas A&M University in College Station, TX, on May 13-14, 2013. The symposium will be the 8th of the series of symposia initiated in 2005. The objectives of these symposia are to promote basic plant sciences in the region by bringing faculty and students together around invited national and international speakers conducting cutting-edge research, and to foster dialog and collaboration among organizers, attendees, and speakers. The theme of this symposium will address the growing field of plant signaling, ranging from cellular signal transduction to plant responses to biotic and abiotic environments. The symposium will consist of oral presentations by invited speakers, poster sessions by local and regional participants, and discussion sessions with invited speakers.Broader impacts: The symposium attracts over 170 participants representing over 20 academic programs from local and regional institutions. The resources derived from this proposal will be used, in addition to cover a part of meeting expenses, to promote participation of regional junior scientists, namely undergraduate and graduate students, postdocs, and early-career faculty by defraying their traveling costs, and to digitally disseminate the symposium outcomes so that it will be available to a broader audience. Invitation of early career speakers and their interaction with participants should provide role models to junior scientists. Finally, interactions between research groups at this symposium, like past ones, will facilitate new collaborative and synergistic activities that should maximize productivities of current and future researchers.