2016 Plant Molecular Biology GRC: How Plants Sense, Process, Integrate and Store Information, June 12-16, 2016, Holderness, New Hampshire

该项目为早期职业科学家参加将于2016年6月12-17日举行的植物分子生物学戈登研究会议提供部分支持。会议的目标是在一个跨学科的研究人员小组中传播关于植物生物学的信息，并增加我们对基础植物生物学及其在解决具有世界意义的问题上的应用的集体理解。会议期间讨论的许多主题将有助于指导旨在回答一些重大问题的研究，例如我们如何为日益增长和日益城市化的世界实现可靠、可持续、公平的营养食品供应。这次会议的具体目的将是聚集代表分子植物生物学研究前沿的演讲者，包括该领域的知名领导者和崭露头角的早期职业研究人员。口头会议和海报会议旨在强调讨论和建立联系，以往会议的评价证明了这种形式的有效性。会议将把支撑这一研究领域的主题与新出现的研究主题结合起来，试图弄清楚植物如何感知、处理、整合和存储信息。这次会议将加速研究，特别是在直接影响粮食、燃料和纤维生产的信号转导、系统生物学、进化和植物微生物相互作用等领域。鉴于植物生物学的重要性及其继续作出具有广泛基础重要性的开创性发现的潜力，以及对交流和互动机会的巨大科学需求，本次会议的议题令人兴奋和及时。具体目标是(1)组织和支持一次关于植物分子生物学研究领域最新科学进展的会议(2)促进在分子、细胞、组织和种群水平上研究植物的科学家和受训人员之间的互动，分享与正常生长、发育和营养有关的新发现，并加强培训和新的合作，以推动该领域的发展，以及(3)让新的独立科学家和受训人员直接参加会议，包括研究生和博士后、妇女、少数群体和残疾人。

This project provides partial support for early career scientists to participate in the Gordon Research Conference on Plant Molecular Biology to be held June 12-17, 2016. The goal of the conference is to disseminate information about plant biology among an interdisciplinary group of researchers, and to increase our collective understanding of basic plant biology and its application to problems of worldwide significance. Many of the topics discussed during the meeting will help direct research aimed at answering big questions such as how can we achieve a reliable, sustainable, equitable, supply of nutritious food for a growing and increasingly urbanized world.The specific aim of this meeting will be to bring together speakers who represent the leading edge of molecular plant biology research, including established leaders in the field and up-and-coming early career researchers. The oral and poster sessions are designed to emphasize discussion and networking, and evaluations from past conferences demonstrate the effectiveness of this format. The meeting will combine topics that underpin this area of research with newly emerging research topics as we attempt to figure out how plants sense, process, integrate and store information. This meeting will accelerate research, particularly in the areas of signal transduction, systems biology, evolution, and plant microbe interactions that directly impact the production of food, fuel and fiber. Given the importance of plant 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 topics of this meeting are 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 molecular biology (2) promote interactions between scientists and trainees who study plants at the molecular, cellular, organismal and population levels to share new discoveries as they relate 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 postdocs, women, minorities and the disabled in the conference.