Meeting: Workshop on Plant Development and Drought Stress, to be held November 1-4, 2015 at Asilomar Conference Grounds in Pacific Grove, CA.

资金将支持一个名为“植物发育和干旱胁迫研讨会”的新会议，该会议将于2015年11月1日至11月4日在加利福尼亚州太平洋格罗夫的Asilomar会议场地举行。本次会议的目的是将植物发育生物学家和植物胁迫生物学家聚集在一起，以便更好地理解干旱和相关环境胁迫如何改变植物生长和发育。相关的压力包括高温或高浓度的盐会影响灌溉农田。植物胁迫生物学家努力了解细胞对恶劣环境的反应：例如，细胞在应对干旱时产生的保护性代谢物，以及细胞用来感知恶劣环境的机制的性质。植物发育是对植物生长方式的研究：例如，植物如何从树枝顶端的干细胞群中产生新的身体部位，如叶子和茎，不同类型的细胞如何在根、茎和叶中组织起来，以及植物如何控制它们的大小。拟议中的研讨会将两组科学家聚集在一起，为期三天。预计这两组科学家之间的相互作用所产生的协同作用将在了解植物如何改变其生长和发育以应对缺水方面取得进展。这反过来又有望导致育种耐旱植物的改进策略。博士后研究人员和研究生将从提交的摘要中选择旅行奖学金，优先考虑来自代表性不足群体的个人。在过去的二十年里，两个独立的领域——发育生物学和应激生物学——随着对核心机制的详细了解，已经达到了高度的复杂程度。现在对控制发育的调控网络和同样控制应激反应的调控网络了解很多。因此，该领域已经成熟，可以探索已知的开发和应力网络的重叠和相互作用。受邀的演讲者都是各自领域公认的领导者。演讲者也将根据其提交的摘要的优秀性和相关性来选择。鼓励初级研究人员（研究生、博士后、助理教授）申请发言。将努力吸纳来自科学领域代表性不足群体的演讲者和与会者。为了保证一个非正式的氛围，允许科学家之间进行充分的交流，研讨会将限制在100名与会者。

Funds will support a new conference entitled "Workshop on Plant Development and Drought Stress" to be held from November 1 to November 4, 2015 at Asilomar Conference Grounds in Pacific Grove, CA. The purpose of this meeting is to bring together plant developmental biologists and plant stress biologists in order to generate a better understanding of how plant growth and development are altered by drought and related environmental stresses. Related stresses include heat or the high concentrations of salt that can affect irrigated fields. Plant stress biologists strive to understand cellular responses to harsh environments: for instance what protective metabolites the cell makes in response to drought and the nature of the machinery the cell uses to sense a harsh environment. Plant development is the study of how plants grow: for instance how plants make new body parts, such as leaves and stem, from groups of stem cells at the tips of branches, how cells of different types become organized in roots, stems and leaves and how plants control their size. The proposed workshop brings both groups of scientists together for three days. It is expected the synergy resulting from interactions between the two groups of scientists will lead to advances in understanding how plants alter their growth and development in response to a lack of water. This in turn is expected to lead to improved strategies for breeding drought tolerant plants. Postdoctoral researchers and graduate students will be chosen from submitted abstracts for travel scholarships, with priority given to individuals from underrepresented groups.Over the last two decades, both fields on their own - developmental biology and stress biology - have reached high levels of sophistication with detailed knowledge of core mechanisms. Much is now known of the regulatory networks controlling development and likewise the regulatory networks controlling stress responses. The fields are therefore ripe for exploring known development and stress networks for overlap and interaction. Invited speakers who are recognized leaders in their fields will present talks. Speakers will also be chosen based on the excellence and relevance of their submitted abstracts. Junior investigators (graduate students, postdocs and assistant professors) will be encouraged to apply for speaking slots. Efforts will be made to include speakers and attendees from groups underrepresented in the sciences. To assure an informal atmosphere that allows for ample give and take between scientists the workshop will be limited to 100 attendees.