Meeting: 5th Pan American Plant Membrane Biology Workshop June 1-5, 2015; San Pedro de Aracama, Chile

会议：第五届泛美植物膜生物学研讨会2015年6月1-5日；

• 批准号: 1539716
• 负责人: Erik Nielsen
• 金额: $ 1万
• 依托单位: Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-05-01 至 2016-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1539716&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Meeting; 5th; Pan; American; Plant

When people eat, they consume organisms that provide them with calories, amino acids, and essential mineral ions required for their bodies to continue to function normally. People do this primarily by either consuming plants directly or by consuming animals that have eaten plants that have accumulated these essential biological molecules. But how do plants mine the soil for essential mineral ions that often are present in extremely limiting concentrations? This occurs because plants have evolved specific membrane proteins that can efficiently recognize and selectively transport these mineral ions from the extracellular environment into the cell. The understanding of these processes, and the proteins involved in this selective enrichment of biologically important mineral ions within plant cells, is undergoing a revolutionary change, based on both the recent ability to identify potential proteins involved in these enrichment processes using genome-based methods, and the recent understanding of the complex membrane sorting events associated with the appropriate regulation of these biological processes. This workshop is aimed at supporting interaction and transfer of knowledge between two previously distinct biological research areas, the study of the sorting of proteins between membranes in plant cells, and the study of the mechanisms by which membrane proteins selectively transport essential ions (and other small molecules) across biological membranes. It is anticipated that the scientific interactions supported by this proposal will facilitate advances that will prove important to expanding the understanding how plants are able to selectively accumulate biologically important mineral ions and small molecules.This application is for partial support of the 5th Pan American Membrane Biology Workshop to be held in San Pedro de Atacama, Chile June 1-5, 2015. This proposed workshop will focus on topics covering the most important breakthroughs in understanding both basic and applied aspects of plant membrane biology. This meeting will largely focus on transport, signaling and trafficking, as these fields of investigation are expanding at an extremely rapid pace. Given the importance of membrane biology and its potential to continue to make groundbreaking discoveries of broad fundamental importance and the large scientific demand for opportunities to communicate and interact, the topic of this meeting is both exciting and timely. The specific objectives are to (1) organize and support a meeting on the latest scientific advances in the research area of plant membrane biology (2) promote interactions between scientists and trainees to share new discoveries in the field of membrane biology as it relates to normal growth, development and nutrition and to enhance training and new collaborations that will move the field forward and (3) to directly involve newly independent scientists and trainees including graduate students and postdoctoral fellows, women, minorities and the disabled in the conference. The broader impacts of the conference include providing access to cutting edge science via oral and poster presentations, to allow opportunities for interactions between trainees and established investigators and to encourage and support long-term and significant advances in this important area of research.

当人们吃东西时，他们消耗的是为他们提供身体继续正常运作所需的卡路里、氨基酸和必需矿物质离子的生物体。人们主要是通过直接食用植物或食用动物，这些动物吃了积累了这些重要生物分子的植物。但植物是如何从土壤中挖掘出通常浓度极低的必需矿物离子的呢？这是因为植物进化出了特定的膜蛋白，可以有效地识别并选择性地将这些矿物离子从细胞外环境转运到细胞内。基于最近使用基于基因组的方法识别这些富集过程中涉及的潜在蛋白质的能力，以及最近对与这些生物过程的适当调节相关的复杂膜分选事件的理解，对这些过程以及参与植物细胞内生物重要矿物离子选择性富集的蛋白质的理解正在发生革命性的变化。本次研讨会旨在支持两个先前不同的生物学研究领域之间的相互作用和知识转移，即植物细胞膜间蛋白质分选的研究，以及膜蛋白选择性运输必需离子（和其他小分子）跨生物膜的机制研究。可以预见的是，这一提议所支持的科学相互作用将促进进展，这将证明对扩大理解植物如何能够选择性地积累重要的生物矿物离子和小分子是重要的。本申请是为2015年6月1日至5日在智利圣佩德罗德阿塔卡马举行的第五届泛美膜生物学研讨会提供部分支持。本次研讨会将集中讨论植物膜生物学在基础和应用方面的最重要突破。这次会议将主要关注交通、信号和贩运问题，因为这些调查领域正在以极快的速度扩大。鉴于膜生物学的重要性及其继续取得具有广泛基础重要性的突破性发现的潜力，以及对交流和互动机会的巨大科学需求，本次会议的主题既令人兴奋又及时。具体目标是：(1)组织和支持一次关于植物膜生物学研究领域最新科学进展的会议；(2)促进科学家和学员之间的互动，分享与正常生长有关的膜生物学领域的新发现；发展和营养，加强培训和新的合作，这将推动该领域向前发展，(3)直接让新独立的科学家和受训者，包括研究生和博士后、妇女、少数民族和残疾人参加会议。会议更广泛的影响包括通过口头和海报展示提供获得前沿科学的机会，允许学员和知名研究人员之间的互动机会，并鼓励和支持在这一重要研究领域取得长期和重大进展。