XI International Symposium on the Plant Hormone Ethylene; June 2-6, Crete, Greece

乙烯是一种植物激素，对生长和发育有深远的影响。激素在生物体和细胞中的作用方式非常复杂，我们才刚刚开始了解由激素（如乙烯）作用释放的相互作用分子组成的复杂网络。这次会议将汇集广泛的科学家，包括研究生和博士后研究员水平的早期职业科学家，讨论导致乙烯释放的细胞和分子系统以及对该释放作出反应的系统。本次会议将讨论的工作与美国农业、美国经济、美国食品供应和食品安全直接相关。会议的拟议计划涵盖了从分子到生物体的一系列尺度上的乙烯信号传导，并将讨论细胞生物学水平上的乙烯信号传导，整合分子和细胞生物学研究的方式，这将有助于发展乙烯信号在细胞中的系统生物学。还将有关于乙烯信号网络的计算建模和跨学科研究的会议，使用生物学，生物物理学和计算方法的组合来模拟乙烯受体结构。此外，会议的大部分内容将讨论目前对乙烯信号的理解，因为它是在非模型（即非拟南芥）作物植物，微生物和藻类？增加我们对非模式生物的理解，这是我们试图将模式物种研究的经验应用于更多样化的生物的一个重要领域。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来支持。

Ethylene is a plant hormone that has profound effects on growth and development. The way that hormones act in an organism and in the cell is very complex, and we are only beginning to understand the complex web of interacting molecules that are unleashed by the action of a hormone such as ethylene. This meeting will bring together a wide range of scientists, including early career scientists at the level of graduate students and post-doctoral fellows, to discuss the cellular and molecular systems that cause the release of ethylene and the systems that react to that release. The work that will be discussed at this conference is directly relevant to US agriculture, to the US economy, and to the US food supply and food security.The proposed program for the conference covers ethylene signaling across a range of scales, from molecular to organismal, and will discuss ethylene signaling at the cell biology level, integrating molecular and cell biological studies in a way that will help develop the systems biology of ethylene signaling in the cell. There will also be sessions on the computational modeling of ethylene signaling networks and interdisciplinary studies using a combination of biology, biophysics and computational approaches to model ethylene receptor structure. In addition, much of the conference will discuss the current understanding of ethylene signaling as it is developing in non-model (i.e. non-Arabidopsis) crop plants, microbes and algae ? increasing our understanding of non-model organisms, an important area as we try to apply lessons from model species studies to a more diverse range of organisms.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.