Meeting: FASEB Conference on Mechanisms in Plant Development, July 30 - August 4, 2017 Saxtons River, Vermont, USA

非技术描述：该项目将促进生物学家之间的互动和信息交流，他们使用不同的科学方法来解决植物（我们食物的主要来源）如何生长和发育。这些互动将在第15届植物发育机制国际会议上进行，该会议将于2017年7月30日至8月4日在美国佛蒙特州萨克斯顿河举行。这次会议是唯一一个定期举行的完全致力于植物发育生物学的国际会议，研究植物如何生长并形成不同的结构，如叶子、果实和谷物，这些对我们的农业经济至关重要。发育生物学的发现可能有助于提高作物产量、质量和抗逆性，以及减少对肥料和其他投入的需求。这个项目是特别的，因为会议的规模小，地点隐蔽，这使它成为讨论新想法和新兴概念以及发展专业网络的绝佳机会。会议时间的一半将用于来自早期职业、女性和未被充分代表的少数族裔科学家的演讲。会议的结果将由与会者总结，并通过在包括“节点”在内的可公开访问的网站上发布的方式向公众提供。还将直接向与会者提供材料，以传播会议上提出的令人兴奋的新发现。技术描述：本次会议是一次重要而独特的科学会议，通过会谈，海报会议和密集的科学讨论来探索植物发育，信号，建模和基因组学的交叉点。会议包括来自世界各地的杰出研究人员，他们展示了最前沿的研究成果，这些研究旨在从根本上理解植物生长和发育的不同方面是如何响应内在和外部信号而受到控制的，以及这些机制是如何在进化过程中被修改的。本次会议将涵盖植物发育的广泛领域，包括局部和远程信号，细胞和发育生物学之间的接口，建模发育的新方法以及植物作为重要发育性状的新模型的出现。今年包括更多的植物/环境相互作用（生物和非生物），因为植物的生活史与新技术相结合，使植物特别适合成为理解复杂的多细胞生物与周围世界之间积极和消极相互作用的先驱。会议还将促进对各个职业级别的不同科学家群体的教育。我们强烈鼓励研究生、博士后和年轻教师提交海报摘要，近一半的演讲者将从这些提交的摘要中选出。还将大力鼓励代表性不足的少数民族和女性科学家的参与；要做到这一点，可以查明和鼓励个人，联系为代表人数不足的少数群体服务的网络和学术机构，以及广泛宣传会议。会议的结果将通过在线发布的书面摘要和供与会者使用的幻灯片来广泛传播所提出的令人兴奋的新发现。

Non-technical description:This project will promote interactions and information exchange between biologists who are using different scientific approaches to resolve how plants--the major sources of our food--grow and develop. These interactions will take place at the 15th International meeting on Mechanisms in Plant Development, which will be held from July 30th to August 4th 2017 in Saxtons River, Vermont, USA. This meeting is the only regularly held international conference devoted entirely to plant developmental biology, the study of how plants grow and make different structures, such as leaves, fruits and grains, that are critical to our agricultural economy. Discoveries in developmental biology may help improve crop yield, quality and stress tolerance, as well as reducing needs for fertilizers and other inputs. This project is special because the small size and secluded location of the meeting make it a fantastic opportunity for discussion of new ideas and emerging concepts, as well as for developing professional networks. Half of the meeting time will be devoted to presentations from early career, women and underrepresented minority scientists. The results of the conference will be summarized by meeting participants and made available to the general public by postings on publicly accessible websites including 'The Node'. Materials will also be provided directly to participants to spread the exciting new findings presented at the meeting.Technical description:This conference is an important and unique scientific meeting where the intersections of plant development, signaling, modeling and genomics are explored through talks, poster sessions, and intensive scientific discussion. The meeting includes outstanding researchers from around the world, presenting cutting edge research directed towards a fundamental understanding of how different aspects of plant growth and development are controlled in response to intrinsic and external signals, and how such mechanisms are modified over evolutionary time. This meeting will cover broad areas of plant development, including sessions on local and long-range signals, the interface between cell and developmental biology, new approaches to modeling development and plants emerging as new models for important developmental traits. This year includes more plant/environmental interactions (biotic and abiotic) because plant life histories combined with new technologies make plants especially well-suited to pioneer an understanding of the positive and negative interactions between a complex multicellular organism and the world around it. The conference will also promote education of a diverse group of scientists at all career levels. Graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and young faculty will be strongly encouraged to submit poster abstracts, and nearly half the speakers will be chosen from these submitted abstracts. Participation by underrepresented minority and female scientists will also be strongly encouraged; this will be achieved by identification and encouragement of individuals, by contacting networks and academic institutions that serve underrepresented minorities, as well as by advertising the conference widely. The results of the conference will be widely disseminated through a written summary posted online and slides to be used by meeting participants to spread the exciting new findings presented.