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食物、燃料和住所的主要来源--植物--是如何生长和发育的。这些互动将在2015年8月2日至7日在美国佛蒙特州萨克斯顿河举行的第14届植物发育机制国际会议上进行。这次会议是唯一一次完全致力于植物发育生物学的定期国际会议，植物发育生物学研究植物如何生长以及它们如何能够形成对我们农业经济至关重要的不同结构，如叶子，果实和谷物。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生产作物，并减少农业对环境的影响。这个特殊的项目是特殊的，因为会议的规模小，位置隐蔽，这使它成为一个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层次的不同科学家群体的教育。研究生，博士后研究员和年轻的教师将被强烈鼓励提交海报摘要，大约三分之一的演讲者将从这些提交的摘要中选出。还将大力鼓励少数群体科学家和女科学家参加会议;为此将确定和鼓励个人参加，并广泛宣传会议。会议的结果将由与会者总结，并通过在“节点”等发育生物学中心和组织者的公共网站上发布向公众提供。本次会议是一次重要而独特的科学会议，通过讲座、海报会议和密集的科学讨论，探讨植物发育、信号传导、建模和基因组学的交叉点。该会议包括来自世界各地的杰出研究人员，介绍尖端研究，旨在从根本上了解植物生长和发育的不同方面如何响应内在和外部信号，以及这些机制如何在进化过程中进行修改。本次会议将涵盖植物发育的广泛领域，包括本地和远程信号，细胞和发育生物学之间的接口，建模发展的新方法和植物作为重要发育特征的新模型。特别是今年，会议组织者计划包括更多的植物/环境相互作用（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领导理解复杂的宏观生物体与周围世界之间的积极和消极相互作用。

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.