Gordon Research Conference on Plant Molecular Biology: Spatial and Temporal Dynamics in Plant Biology, Holderness, New Hampshire, June 14-19, 2020

戈登植物分子生物学研究会议：植物生物学的空间和时间动力学，霍尔德内斯，新罕布什尔州，2020 年 6 月 14-19 日

• 批准号: 2005283
• 负责人: C. Robertson McClung
• 金额: $ 1.5万
• 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: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-03-15 至 2023-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2005283&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Gordon; Research; Conference; Plant; Molecular

The 28th Gordon Research Conference on Plant Molecular Biology, entitled “Spatial and Temporal Dynamics in Plant Biology,” is scheduled for June 14-19, 2020 in Holderness, NH. Humanity faces the challenge of providing a global population of 9-10 billion with nourishing food, sustainably, in spite of loss of arable land and environmental degradation. Plants cannot move and so must deal with a changing and increasingly stressful environment by responding in place. This conference focuses on plant responses to their environment in real time, but at different time scales. For example, light perception is rapid (occurs in milliseconds), but many signaling cascades operate over minutes to hours. The biological circadian clock operates on a time scale of days yet is also critical for seasonal perception. Evolutionary time scales extend over years to millennia. Plant environmental responses also occur at different spatial scales, from subcellular and cellular to whole organ and whole plant. Moreover, plant responses to the environment are also influenced by their associated microbes, which include both beneficial and pathogenic interactions. Understanding the mechanistic basis of plant responses to their environment across both temporal and spatial scales is an important first step towards developing crops better able to maintain or even increase their productivity in the face of increasing and changing environmental stresses. The goal of this conference is the dissemination of these insights both within the scientific community and to the greater public to inform and enhance agricultural practice and its appreciation.To survive, plants must adapt to an ever-changing environment in real-time, yet current studies typically capture only a (single time point) snapshot of plant responses. This conference will highlight new methods and approaches to track and analyze dynamic responses in plants in real time, at different temporal and spatial scales – from the atomic dynamics of light perception by phytochrome, through epigenetic and transcription dynamics, to dynamics of cell biological and developmental processes, to whole plant physiology and evolutionary dynamics. Novel modeling and statistical approaches will be considered, including time-based studies, that reveal previously unknown gene-network interactions at a variety of levels that could not be identified using more conventional means. The small scale of the meeting, and the emphasis on discussion offers a unique opportunity to develop a community that embraces the importance of recognizing the multiple distinct scales of organization, both temporal and spatial, at which life, specifically plant life, operates. Plant signaling operates at different temporal and spatial scales from the evolution of plant species and communities, yet there are commonalities of logic that apply, and their application enriches and advances our work to understand plant biology at each of these scales. While one explicit objective is to broaden the thinking of the scientists who interact at this GRC, a parallel objective is to build and broaden the plant research community through the recruitment of new participants with new skill sets. This objective is as important as the specific research discussed at the GRC. This award was co-funded by the Plant Genome Research Program and the Plant, Fungal and Microbial Developmental Mechanisms Program in the Division of Integrative Organismal Systems, and the Cellular Dynamics and Function Cluster in the Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences.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.

第28届戈登植物分子生物学研究会议，题为“植物生物学的时空动态”，定于2020年6月14日至19日在新罕布什尔州的霍洛维茨举行。人类面临的挑战是，尽管可耕地减少，环境退化，但仍要可持续地为全球90亿至100亿人口提供营养食品。 植物不能移动，因此必须通过原地反应来应对不断变化和日益紧张的环境。 这次会议的重点是植物在真实的时间，但在不同的时间尺度对环境的反应。 例如，光的感知是快速的（发生在毫秒内），但许多信号级联运行在几分钟到几小时内。 生物钟在一天的时间尺度上运行，但对季节感知也至关重要。 进化的时间尺度从几年延长到几千年。 植物的环境响应也发生在不同的空间尺度上，从亚细胞和细胞到整个器官和整个植物。 此外，植物对环境的反应也受到与其相关的微生物的影响，其中包括有益的和致病的相互作用。 了解植物在时间和空间尺度上对其环境的反应的机制基础是重要的第一步，以发展作物更好地保持甚至提高其生产力，面对不断增加和变化的环境压力。 本次会议的目标是在科学界和公众中传播这些见解，以告知和加强农业实践及其欣赏。为了生存，植物必须实时适应不断变化的环境，但目前的研究通常只捕捉到植物反应的（单一时间点）快照。本次会议将突出新的方法和途径，以跟踪和分析动态响应植物在真实的时间，在不同的时间和空间尺度-从光敏色素光感知的原子动力学，通过表观遗传和转录动力学，细胞生物学和发育过程的动力学，整个植物生理学和进化动力学。 将考虑新的建模和统计方法，包括基于时间的研究，揭示以前未知的基因网络相互作用在各种水平上，不能使用更传统的手段来确定。 小规模的会议，并强调讨论提供了一个独特的机会，以发展一个社区，拥抱认识到组织的多个不同尺度的重要性，无论是时间和空间，在生命，特别是植物生命，运作。 植物信号传导在不同的时间和空间尺度上从植物物种和群落的进化，但有共同的逻辑适用，他们的应用丰富和推进我们的工作，以了解植物生物学在每个这些尺度。 虽然一个明确的目标是拓宽在这个GRC互动的科学家的思维，一个平行的目标是通过招募具有新技能的新参与者来建立和扩大植物研究社区。 这一目标与GRC讨论的具体研究同样重要。 该奖项是由植物基因组研究计划和植物，真菌和微生物发育机制计划在综合有机体系统的部门，和细胞动力学和功能集群在分子和细胞生物科学的部门共同资助。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得通过评估使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准的支持。