International Symposium on Plant Photobiology (ISPP 2015)

光是植物的生命；生物能源的终极来源。在植物的整个生命周期中，光是调节植物生长发育的最关键的环境信号之一。国际植物光生物学研讨会（ISPP 2015）将于2015年5月26日至5月31日在德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校举行，该会议将重点讨论光受体的结构和功能、信号机制、生态意义和光生物学的生物技术应用。ISPP 2015在一个轻松的场所，通过每天的专题讨论会和海报会议对参与者进行最新研究发展的教育，并提供大量的自由时间进行非正式讨论和指导年轻的研究人员，旨在激发新的方法来剪裁生物体、光感受器和光能转化催化剂，以实现高效可持续的食品、纤维和能源生产应用。ISPP会议代表了全球植物光生物学社区的独特利基。不同光感受器及其信号传导机制的顶尖专家、新研究者以及相关领域的受邀参与者将对各自领域的现状、其中的挑战和机遇以及他们最近未发表的发现做出批判性分析。虽然将鼓励传播本次会议的思想，但预计不会出版正式的会议记录，以鼓励讨论未发表的成果、思想和新方向。该项目的更广泛影响包括整合研究、教育和培训，邀请主要来自本科院校的教师、博士生和博士后参与，重点关注女性和/或代表性不足的社区成员。会议为早期职业调查人员的口头报告保留了名额，他们要么被邀请，要么将由一个由成熟调查人员组成的委员会从海报摘要中选出。会议费用将根据经济需要和/或海报展示的优点支付给这些参与者和其他优秀的学生和博士后。国际植物光生物学研讨会（ISPP）有着悠久的传统，它汇集了一个多样化的国际研究人员网络，仅仅通过他们共同的目标联系在一起，以及由这些研讨会产生的大量国家和国际合作。

Light is life for plants; the ultimate source of bioenergy. Light acts as one of the most critical environmental signals regulating growth and development throughout the life cycle of plants. This proposal seeks financial support for the International Symposium on Plant Photobiology (ISPP 2015), an ad hoc biennial conference focused on the structure and function of light receptors, signaling mechanisms, ecological significance and biotechnological applications of photobiology, to be held at The University of Texas at Austin, TX from May 26 to May 31, 2015. Through education of participants in state-of-the-art research developments during daily symposia and poster sessions in a relaxed venue with plenty of free time for informal discussion and mentoring of young investigators, ISPP 2015 seeks to inspire new approaches to tailoring organisms, photoreceptors and light-energy converting catalysts for efficient sustainable food, fiber and energy production applications. ISPP conferences represent a unique niche for the plant photobiology communities worldwide. Leading experts on diverse photoreceptors and their signaling mechanisms, new investigators, and invited participants from associated fields will contribute critical analyses of the current state of their fields, the challenges and opportunities therein and their most recent unpublished discoveries. While the dissemination of ideas from this conference will be encouraged, no formal proceedings publication is anticipated in order to encourage discussion of unpublished results, ideas and new directions.The broader impacts of the project include integration of research, education and training by soliciting participation of faculty from primarily undergraduate institutions, Ph.D. students and postdoctoral fellows with a focus on female and/or a member of an under-represented community. The sessions have reserved slots for oral presentations by early career investigators, who are either invited or will be chosen from the poster abstracts by a committee of established investigators. The conference fee will be covered for these participants and for other meritorious students and postdoctoral fellows based on financial need and/or merit of poster presentation. The International Symposium on Plant Photobiology (ISPP) has a long tradition of bringing together a diverse international network of researchers, linked simply through their shared goals, and a plethora of national and international collaborations that have been spawned by these Symposia.