17th International Workshop on Plant Membrane Biology, June 5-10, 2016, Annapolis, MD

国际植物膜生物学研讨会（俗称植物膜生物学研讨会）是一个专注于植物膜蛋白的功能和运输以及这些知识与营养管理模型的相关性的会议。自20世纪60年代末以来，植物膜生物学研讨会一直是对植物运输和膜生物学感兴趣的研究人员的首要国际会议。农业养分利用管理已成为全球最重要的经济和环境问题之一。位于植物膜上的转运蛋白和受体蛋白在管理养分交换和缓冲环境胁迫方面起着第一线的作用。令人惊讶的是，与动物系统相比，对植物膜蛋白功能的机制理解是有限的。转运蛋白占植物基因组的近5%，影响植物的生长、发育、防御和抗逆性，也影响人类的营养和健康。2016年研讨会的目标是确定并汇集从事植物膜蛋白研究的顶尖科学家，并促进与下一代科学家（现在是研究生和博士后）分享膜蛋白研究领域专家的研究成果和方法。本次研讨会特别强调的是将生物物理学家和结构生物学家在蛋白质结构和建模方面的知识扩展到植物群落。知名科学家将主持每一场会议，其中包括来自早期职业科学家的演讲，以及从摘要中选出的学生和博士后研究人员的演讲。国际植物膜生物学研讨会是一个以研讨会形式组织的会议，主要讨论植物膜蛋白的功能和运输以及这些知识与营养管理模型的相关性。讲习班的传统是由资深科学家主持高度互动的会议，其中很大一部分由初级职业科学家进行口头报告。2016年研讨会特别关注新的生物物理和蛋白质结构发现在农业中对养分使用的环境负责任管理的紧迫问题中的应用。也有一个增加强调与植物膜相关的信号转导过程。知名科学家将主持每一场会议，其中包括来自早期职业科学家的演讲，以及从摘要中选出的学生和博士后研究人员的演讲。

The International Workshop on Plant Membrane Biology (colloquially known as the Plant Membrane Biology Workshop) is a gathering focused on the function and trafficking of plant membrane proteins and the relevance of this knowledge to nutrient management modeling. Since the late 1960s, the Plant Membrane Biology Workshop has been the premier international conference for researchers interested in plant transport and membrane biology. Management of nutrient use in agriculture has become one of the most important global economic and environmental issues. The transport and receptor proteins that reside on plant membranes function on the front line of managing nutrient exchange and buffering environmental stress. Surprisingly, the mechanistic understanding of plant membrane protein function is limited compared to animal systems. Transporters account for nearly 5% of plant genomes and impact plant growth, development, defense and stress tolerance but also human nutrition and health. The goals of the 2016 Workshop are to identify and bring together the top scientists working on plant membrane proteins and to facilitate sharing research results and approaches from experts across the spectrum of membrane protein research with the next generation of scientists who are now graduate students and postdocs. For this Workshop, a particular emphasis is extension of knowledge from biophysicists and structural biologists working at the forefront of protein structure and modeling to the plant community. Established scientists will anchor and chair each session which will feature talks from early-career scientists and talks by students and post-doctoral researchers selected from the abstracts.The International Workshop on Plant Membrane Biology is a meeting organized in a workshop format focused on the function and trafficking of plant membrane proteins and the relevance of this knowledge to nutrient management modeling. The Workshop has a tradition of highly interactive sessions led by senior scientists with a large proportion of the oral presentations made by junior career scientists. The 2016 Workshop has a particular focus on the application of new biophysical and protein structure discoveries to the pressing issues of environmentally responsible management of nutrient use in agriculture. There is also an increased emphasis on signal transduction processes that are associated with plant membranes. Established scientists will anchor and chair each session which will feature talks from early-career scientists and talks by students and post-doctoral researchers selected from the abstracts.