FASEB Conference on Mechanisms in Plant Development, Saxton's River, Vermont, August 2 - 7, 2015

这个项目将促进生物学家之间的互动，他们使用不同的科学方法来展示我们的食物、燃料和住所的主要来源——植物——是如何生长和发展的。这些互动将在第14届植物发育机制国际会议上进行，该会议将于2015年8月2日至7日在美国佛蒙特州萨克斯顿河举行。这次会议是唯一一个完全以植物发育生物学为主题的定期国际会议。植物发育生物学研究的是植物如何生长，以及它们如何能够形成不同的结构，比如叶子、果实和谷物，这些对我们的农业经济至关重要。人们希望发育生物学的发现将有助于设计更好的粮食和生物燃料作物，同时减少农业对环境的影响。这个特殊的项目之所以特别，是因为会议的规模小，地点隐蔽，这使它成为讨论新想法和新兴概念的绝佳机会。会议还将促进对各个职业级别的不同科学家群体的教育。我们强烈鼓励研究生、博士后和年轻教师提交海报摘要，大约三分之一的演讲者将从这些提交的摘要中选出。还将大力鼓励少数民族和女性科学家的参与；这将通过确定和鼓励个人以及广泛宣传会议来实现。会议的结果将由与会者总结，并通过“The Node”等发育生物学中心和组织者的公共网站向公众发布。还将直接向与会者提供材料，以传播会议上提出的令人兴奋的新发现。本次会议是一次重要而独特的科学会议，通过会谈，海报会议和密集的科学讨论来探索植物发育，信号，建模和基因组学的交叉点。会议包括来自世界各地的杰出研究人员，他们展示了最前沿的研究成果，这些研究旨在从根本上理解植物生长和发育的不同方面是如何响应内在和外部信号而受到控制的，以及这些机制是如何在进化过程中被修改的。本次会议将涵盖植物发育的广泛领域，包括局部和远程信号，细胞和发育生物学之间的接口，建模发育的新方法以及植物作为重要发育性状的新模型的出现。特别是今年，会议组织者计划包括更多的植物与环境的相互作用（无论是生物的还是非生物的），因为新技术和它们的生活史使植物特别适合引导人们理解复杂的宏观生物与周围世界之间的积极和消极的相互作用。

This project will promote interactions between biologists who are using different scientific approaches to show how the major sources of our food, fuel and shelter -plants- grow and develop. These interactions will take place at the 14th International meeting on Mechanisms in Plant Development, which will be held from August 2nd-7th, 2015 in Saxton's River, Vermont, USA. This meeting is the only regular international conference devoted entirely to plant developmental biology, which is the study of how plants grow and how they are able to make different structures, such as leaves, fruits and grains, that are critical to our agricultural economy. It is hoped that discoveries in developmental biology will help design better crops for food and biofuel production, as well as reducing the impact of agriculture on the environment. This particular project is special because of the small size and secluded location of the meeting, which make it a fantastic opportunity for discussion of new ideas and emerging concepts. The conference will also promote education of a diverse group of scientists at all career levels. Graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and young faculty will be strongly encouraged to submit poster abstracts, and approximately one third of the speakers will be chosen from these submitted abstracts. Participation by minority and female scientists will also be strongly encouraged; this will be achieved by identification and encouragement of individuals, as well as by advertising the conference widely. The results of the conference will be summarized by meeting participants and made available to the general public through posting on developmental biology hubs such as "The Node" and on the organizer's public websites. Materials will also be provided directly to participants to spread the exciting new findings presented at the meeting.This conference is an important and unique scientific meeting where the intersections of plant development, signaling, modeling and genomics are explored through talks, poster sessions, and intensive scientific discussion. The meeting includes outstanding researchers from around the world, presenting cutting edge research directed towards a fundamental understanding of how different aspects of plant growth and development are controlled in response to intrinsic and external signals, and how such mechanisms are modified over evolutionary time. This meeting will cover broad areas of plant development, including sessions on local and long-range signals, the interface between cell and developmental biology, new approaches to modeling development and plants emerging as new models for important developmental traits. This year, in particular, the meeting organizers have planned to include more plant/environmental interactions (be they biotic or abiotic) because new technologies and their life histories make plants especially well suited to lead the way to understanding the positive and negative interactions between a complex macroscopic organism and the world around it.