Conference: Multiscale Plant Vascular Biology, June 16-22, 2018, Mt. Snow, VT.

会议：多尺度植物血管生物学，2018 年 6 月 16-22 日，佛蒙特州斯诺山。

• 批准号: 1821902
• 负责人: Barbara Lachenbruch
• 金额: $ 3.24万
• 依托单位: Gordon Research Conferences
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-03-15 至 2019-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1821902&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Conference; Multiscale; Plant; Vascular; Biology

This award will support about 15 early-career scientists to participate in two linked conferences on the specific mechanisms used by plants for productivity, at scales from below the cell all the way up to the landscape. The conferences themselves focus on two factors that are tightly associated with plant growth and survival: water and photosynthate (sugars produced by plants during photosynthesis, that are used for building plants and that are the basis for all food consumed by all organisms on Earth). Most participants already work on the transport of one or both of these factors, but they usually only work at one or two of the following scales: gene transcription, cell physiology and development, wood or inner bark physiology or development, whole plant size and shape, or function of communities or entire landscapes. This conference provides an important venue to bring together researchers working on these different scales. The smaller conference is for early-career scientists, and the larger conference has special activities designed to help early-career scientists make meaningful relationships with more established scientists. The organizers expect that all scientists will benefit from these relationships, and so the conferences will not only move the fields of plant biology forward, but will enrich the worker-base to ensure continuing advancements in the field.This award will support the travel and registration costs of about 15 early-career scientists for two linked conferences, the five-day Gordon Research Conference (GRC), and the two-day Gordon Research Seminar (GRS) in the area of Multiscale Plant Vascular Biology (target sizes 200 scientists, and 50 early-career scientists, respectively). It is increasingly recognized that knowledge of water and photosynthate movement through systems gives much information about how that system functions, from the levels of subcellular parts up through landscapes. That same information may be used to understand how robust a system is to perturbation, and the basis for that robustness, which can be used in predictions and management for applications such as development of suitable plants for future conditions, understanding the links between plant physiology and climate-change-induced ecosystem shifts, and linking community transpiration to ground and atmospheric water stores. The GRC will focus on plasticity in these systems to help predict what is possible, and may show how the variability stabilizes or destabilizes systems at multiple scales. The GRS will provide a forum for early-career researchers in these fields to identify knowledge gaps in the role of vascular transport on climate change and that can be addressed through multidisciplinary collaborations. The conferences have three broader impacts. 1) Learning opportunity for a range of scientists, with an emphasis on early-career and participation of under-represented groups. The GRC will have four activities to encourage mixing and mentoring. The GRS has an agenda to facilitate peer interaction. The meetings are being advertised broadly through scientific societies and organizations that work to increase diversity in biological sciences. 2) Advancement of science, the elaboration of which may ultimately help ensure our continued existence on Earth given the importance of primary producers (plants) and the many risks to their health and productivity. 3) Development of community in a fragmented field.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.

该奖项将支持约 15 名处于职业生涯早期的科学家参加两个相关会议，讨论植物用于提高生产力的具体机制，范围从细胞以下一直到景观。 会议本身重点关注与植物生长和生存密切相关的两个因素：水和光合作用（植物在光合作用过程中产生的糖，用于构建植物，是地球上所有生物消耗的所有食物的基础）。大多数参与者已经在研究这些因素中的一种或两种的运输，但他们通常只在以下一个或两个尺度上进行研究：基因转录、细胞生理学和发育、木材或内树皮生理学或发育、整个植物的大小和形状，或者群落或整个景观的功能。这次会议提供了一个重要的场所，将这些不同规模的研究人员聚集在一起。 较小的会议是为职业生涯早期的科学家举办的，而较大的会议则有专门的活动，旨在帮助处于职业生涯早期的科学家与更成熟的科学家建立有意义的关系。 组织者期望所有科学家都能从这些关系中受益，因此这些会议不仅将推动植物生物学领域向前发展，而且将充实工人基础，以确保该领域的持续进步。该奖项将支持约 15 名早期职业科学家参加两个相关会议的旅费和注册费用，即为期五天的戈登研究会议 (GRC) 和为期两天的多尺度领域戈登研究研讨会 (GRS) 植物血管生物学（目标规模分别为 200 名科学家和 50 名早期职业科学家）。人们越来越认识到，关于水和光合产物通过系统运动的知识提供了有关该系统如何运作的大量信息，从亚细胞部分的水平到景观。 同样的信息可用于了解系统对扰动的鲁棒性，以及这种鲁棒性的基础，可用于预测和管理应用，例如开发适合未来条件的植物，了解植物生理学和气候变化引起的生态系统变化之间的联系，以及将群落蒸腾与地面和大气水储存联系起来。 GRC 将重点关注这些系统的可塑性，以帮助预测可能发生的情况，并可能显示可变性如何在多个尺度上稳定或破坏系统的稳定。 GRS 将为这些领域的早期职业研究人员提供一个论坛，以确定血管运输对气候变化的作用的知识差距，并可以通过多学科合作来解决。这些会议具有三个更广泛的影响。 1) 为一系列科学家提供学习机会，重点关注早期职业生涯和代表性不足群体的参与。 GRC 将开展四项活动来鼓励混合和指导。 GRS 制定了促进同行互动的议程。这些会议正在通过致力于增加生物科学多样性的科学协会和组织进行广泛宣传。 2）科学的进步，考虑到初级生产者（植物）的重要性及其健康和生产力面临的许多风险，科学的进步最终可能有助于确保我们在地球上的继续存在。 3) 在分散的领域中发展社区。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。