2019 Gordon Research Seminar and Gordon Research Conference on Plant Lipids: Structure, Metabolism & Function, Galveston, Texas, Jan 29 - Feb 3,2019

联合国的优先目标包括“消除饥饿，实现粮食安全，改善营养，促进可持续农业”。脂质是一种油和脂溶性分子，在植物和动物的发育中起着重要作用，并作为环境条件变化的信号。此外，许多脂质是重要的营养或药用化合物或工业前体。因此，了解植物脂质的合成、结构和功能不仅有助于对植物发育过程的科学理解，还将转化为对食物可持续性和质量的切实改进：了解脂质如何影响植物生长、种子和果实的发育，将带来更高的产量和更多的食物。-了解脂质如何影响植物在不断变化的环境（寒冷、冰冻、干旱、营养不足的土壤、昆虫取食等）中的生存，将减少作物损失。-了解脂质生物合成将使我们能够提高食物的营养价值（高维生素A或E；富含ω -脂肪酸）。-将该知识转移到其他物种以生产药用脂质将改善人类健康。-将这些知识转化为细菌或藻类的工业脂质合成，将导致低成本、低影响的重要化合物生产。由于这些过程是复杂的，不仅包括对植物脂质及其检测的基本了解，还包括将其转化为农业系统，因此植物脂质研究的所有会议，交换信息和协调努力是至关重要的。会议和之前的戈登研究研讨会的指导会议将促进青年科学家的参与和互动。2019年戈登“植物脂质：结构、代谢和功能”研究会议（2019年1月29日至2019年2月3日在德克萨斯州加尔维斯顿的加尔维斯酒店举行）将提供一个国际平台，讨论和整合了解植物脂质的新方法，包括储存脂质的复杂代谢及其与生物膜的联系。详细的主题包括脂质可视化和检测的新技术，如新开发的光遗传学工具；优化植物脂质代谢的分子和基因编辑新方法计算分析/建模预测表型变化和脂质-蛋白相互作用；以及脂质与其他分子相互作用的研究。总之，所提出的发现和方法使我们能够制定新的策略来理解和利用脂质在植物生长、环境信号、细胞结构以及食品、健康、工业和燃料中有价值的脂质生产中的作用。会议主题为“新见解和新技术——将脂质研究带入未来”，将结合来自学术界、科研机构和行业的现有和下一代脂质研究人员的知识、创造力和前沿思维。重要的会议时间将用于为早期职业科学家提供最新技术的机会。会议将在最后的头脑风暴会议中达到高潮，届时将有三位在该领域受人尊敬的科学家提出并讨论将脂质研究带入未来和科学前沿的重大想法。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并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，被认为值得支持。

The priority goals of the United Nations include "End hunger, achieve food security, improve nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture". Lipids are oil and fat-soluble molecules that play an important role in plant and animal development and serve as signals for changing environmental conditions. In addition, many lipids are important nutritional or medicinal compounds or industrial precursors. As a result, understanding synthesis, structure and function of plant lipids will serve not only the scientific understanding of plant developmental processes but will also translate into tangible improvements of food sustainability and quality:- Understanding how lipids affect plant growth and seed and fruit development will lead to higher yields and more food.- Understanding how lipids affect plant survival in changing environments (cold, freezing, drought, nutrient-deficient soil, insect feeding etc.) will reduce crop losses.- Understanding lipid biosynthesis will lead to our ability to improve the nutritional value of food (high vitamin A or E; rich in omega-fatty acids).- Transferring that knowledge into other species to produce medicinal lipids will improve human health.- Transferring that knowledge into the synthesis of industrial lipids in bacteria or algae will lead to low-cost, low-impact production of important compounds.As these processes are complex and encompass not only basic understanding of plant lipids and their detection but also the translation into agricultural systems, it is essential for plant lipid research to all meet, exchange information, and coordinate efforts. Mentoring sessions at the conference and the preceding Gordon Research Seminar will facilitate the inclusion and interaction of junior scientists.The 2019 Gordon Research Conference on "Plant Lipids: Structure, Metabolism, and Function" (1/29 - 2/3/2019 at the Hotel Galvez in Galveston, TX) will provide an international platform to discuss and integrate new approaches to understand plant lipids, including the complex metabolism of storage lipids and their links to biological membranes. Detailed topics include new techniques for lipid visualization and detection, such as newly developed optogenetics tools; novel molecular and gene editing approaches to optimize plant lipid metabolism; computational analysis/modeling to predict phenotypic changes and lipid-protein interactions; and the study of lipid-interaction with other molecules. Together, the presented findings and approaches allow us to develop new strategies to understand and utilize the role of lipids in plant growth, environmental signaling, cellular structure, and the production of valuable lipids for food, health, industry, and fuel. The meeting theme "New Insights and Technologies - Bringing Lipid Research into the Future" will combine knowledge, creativity, and cutting-edge thinking of established and next-generation lipid researchers from academia, scientific institutes, and industry. Significant meeting time will be devoted to exposure to the state of the art technologies for and by early career scientists will be included. The meeting will culminate in a final brainstorming session that will feature three respected scientists in the field who present and discuss big ideas to bring lipid research into the future and to the forefront of science.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.