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

资金将支持一个新的会议，题为“植物发育和干旱胁迫研讨会”将于2015年11月1日至11月4日在太平洋格罗夫Asilomar会议场地举行，加利福尼亚州。 这次会议的目的是汇集植物发育生物学家和植物胁迫生物学家，以便更好地了解干旱和相关环境胁迫如何改变植物生长和发育。 相关的压力包括热量或高浓度的盐，这可能会影响灌溉田。 植物应激生物学家努力了解细胞对恶劣环境的反应：例如，细胞针对干旱产生哪些保护性代谢产物，以及细胞用于感知恶劣环境的机制的性质。 植物发育是研究植物如何生长的：例如植物如何从树枝尖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互动产生的协同作用将导致理解植物如何改变其生长和发育以应对缺水的进展。 这反过来又有望导致改良耐旱植物的育种策略。博士后研究人员和研究生将从提交的旅行奖学金摘要中选出，优先考虑来自代表性不足群体的个人。在过去的二十年里，发育生物学和应激生物学这两个领域各自都达到了高度的复杂程度，对核心机制有了详细的了解。 现在我们对控制发育的调节网络以及控制应激反应的调节网络已经有了很多了解。 因此，这些领域已经成熟，可以探索已知的发展和应力网络的重叠和相互作用。 受邀演讲者谁是公认的领导人在各自的领域将提出会谈。 还将根据所提交摘要的卓越性和相关性来选择发言者。 将鼓励初级研究人员（研究生，博士后和助理教授）申请发言名额。 将努力让来自科学领域代表性不足的团体的发言者和与会者参加。 为了确保一个非正式的气氛，允许科学家之间有充分的交流，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.