1st Workshop on the Plant Cell Atlas Initiative; January, 2020; Stanford, CA

植物科学需要创新，以解决全球可持续性、粮食安全和人类健康问题。植物不仅构成陆地生态系统和人类食物供应的基础，而且还提供可再生能源和基本药物。本次研讨会的目标是汇集来自数据科学和生物信息学，成像，蛋白质组学，单细胞分析和纳米技术领域的科学家，集思广益，开发工具，为全面了解植物细胞的动态分子组织奠定基础，我们称之为植物细胞图谱。植物细胞图谱将成为科学界解决与粮食安全和气候变化的重大挑战直接相关的生物学中基本的、长期存在的问题的重要资源。该社区将利用和扩展一些革命性的技术和技巧，并准备创造新的技术。这次会议将培养一个年轻和成熟的科学家网络。我们将积极招募代表性不足的科学家和初级教师，博士后和研究生的参与者。本次研讨会旨在建立一个跨学科科学家的社区，以满足和集思广益植物细胞图谱计划应该采取的更广泛的方向，它可能带来的挑战以及如何准备迎接这些挑战。研讨会还旨在通过邀请其中一些人分享他们的观点和参加研讨会活动，促进与人类细胞图谱项目的主要科学家的互动和投入。研讨会将以邀请演讲和简短演讲的形式介绍初步数据，沿着更广泛的想法。此外，分组会议和小组讨论将围绕技术挑战、社区需求和植物细胞图谱的概念目标等主题进行。这些活动将促进该倡议参与者之间的互动和联网。我们期待着各种提案的概念和合作，形成从这次聚会。这个奖项是共同的-该奖项由分子生物科学部的细胞动力学、功能和遗传机制小组以及综合有机体系统部的植物基因组研究计划资助。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过利用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响进行评估，被认为值得支持审查标准。

Innovations in plant science are needed to tackle global sustainability, food security and human health. Plants not only form the foundation of terrestrial ecosystems and the human food supply, but also provide renewable energy and essential medicines. The goal of this workshop is to bring together scientists from the fields of data science and bioinformatics, imaging, proteomics, single cell profiling and nanotechnology to brainstorm and develop tools to lay the groundwork for creating a comprehensive understanding of the dynamic molecular organization of the plant cell, an initiative we are calling the Plant Cell Atlas. A Plant Cell Atlas will become a crucial resource for the scientific community to address basic, long-standing questions in biology that relate directly to grand challenges in food security and climate change. This community will leverage and extend a number of revolutionary technologies and techniques and be poised to create new techniques. This conference will foster a network of young and established scientists. We will proactively recruit participants from underrepresented scientists and junior faculty, postdocs and graduate students.This workshop aims at starting a community of interdisciplinary scientists to meet and brainstorm about broader directions the Plant Cell Atlas initiative should take, the challenges it might pose on the way and how to be prepared to meet those challenges. The workshop also aims to foster interaction with and input from the leading scientists of the Human Cell Atlas project by inviting some of them to share their perspectives and participate in workshop activities. The workshop will feature presentations of initial data, along with broader ideas, in the form of invited talks and short talks from abstracts. In addition, breakout sessions and panel discussions will be organized around topics including technical challenges, community wants and needs, and the conceptual goals of the plant cell atlas. These activities will facilitate interaction and networking among the participants of this initiative. We anticipate various proposal concepts and collaborations to form from this gathering.This award was co-funded by the Cellular Dynamics and Function and Genetic Mechanisms clusters of the Division of Molecular Biosciences and the Plant Genome Research Program of the Division Integrative Organismal Systems.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.