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

植物膜生物学国际研讨会（俗称植物膜生物学研讨会）是一个集中在植物膜蛋白的功能和运输以及这些知识与营养管理建模的相关性的聚会。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。农业养分使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营养交换和缓冲环境胁迫的第一线发挥作用。令人惊讶的是，与动物系统相比，对植物膜蛋白功能的机械理解是有限的。转运蛋白占植物基因组的近5%，影响植物的生长、发育、防御和胁迫耐受性，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，并促进与现在是研究生和博士后的下一代科学家分享膜蛋白研究领域专家的研究成果和方法。对于这个研讨会，一个特别的重点是从生物蛋白质学家和结构生物学家在蛋白质结构和植物群落建模的前沿工作的知识扩展。 建立科学家将锚和主持每一个会议，将从早期的职业生涯的科学家和学生和博士后研究人员从摘要中选择的谈话。植物膜生物学国际研讨会是一个研讨会的形式组织的会议，重点是植物膜蛋白的功能和运输和营养管理模型的相关性知识。讲习班的传统是由资深科学家主持高度互动的会议，大部分口头介绍由初级职业科学家进行。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环境负责的营养物质使用管理的紧迫问题上的应用。与植物膜相关的信号转导过程也越来越受到重视。已建立的科学家将锚和主持每一个会议，将从早期的职业科学家和学生和博士后研究人员从摘要中选择会谈功能。

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.