Conference: Auxin 2022: Cavtat, Croatia 2-7 October 2022

该奖项支持选定的美国参与者在2022年10月在克罗地亚察夫塔特举行的Auxin 2022国际学者会议的旅行和注册费。该奖项涵盖了来自美国的两名职业生涯早期的女教师受邀演讲的差旅费，以及允许30名美国职业生涯早期的科学家（包括学生，博士后研究员，教师和科学代表性不足的团体成员）参加会议的会议注册费。会议的重点是植物激素生长素研究的最新进展和未来方向。植物是“出生”，或从种子发芽，有一个简单的身体计划。最初，幼苗由一组嫩叶和一个简单的根组成。从这个简单的幼苗，线索从环境（哪里是阳光？土壤的养分在哪里？现在是什么季节？）塑造新器官的生长，如树枝、树叶和花朵。这是如何发生的还没有完全了解，但众所周知，生长素是植物生长和发育几乎每个方面的重要调节剂。生长素领域是植物生物学中最活跃和发展最快的领域之一，该领域的新发现有助于开发新作物和解决粮食不安全问题。为了鼓励在该领域工作的研究人员之间的互动和合作，该奖项促进了美国科学家参加在克罗地亚举行的Auxin 2022会议，在那里他们将接触到新的发现，与国际同事互动，并成为新合作的一部分。四年一度的生长素会议于2022年10月在克罗地亚察夫塔特举行，旨在促进思想交流，建立未来的研究方向，并在研究植物激素生长素如何调节植物生长和发育的多个方面的国际科学家之间发展合作关系。会议还为早期职业调查人员，学员和代表性不足的群体的个人提供了一个与该领域领导人互动并加入国际生长素社区的机会。来自13个国家的30多位顶尖科学家同意在会议上分享他们的最新成果。受邀发言者名单包括12名妇女和8名年轻科学家。该奖项将资助其中两名受邀演讲者的差旅费和另外30名个人的会议登记费。为了促进生长素新发现的传播，受邀演讲者将准备总结该领域新方向的论文，这些论文将发表在《实验生物学杂志》的特刊上，并将向《植物细胞》杂志提交生长素领域的概述。该奖项是由植物基因组研究计划和生理机制和生物力学计划在综合有机体系统的BIO部门共同资助的。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得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的支持。

This award supports travel and registration fees for selected US participants in the Auxin 2022 meeting of international scholars in Cavtat, Croatia, in October 2022. The award covers travel expenses for two early-career female faculty from the US who are invited speakers, and meeting registration fees to allow 30 American early-career scientists, including students, post-doctoral fellows, faculty, and members of groups under-represented in science, to participate in the meeting. The meeting focuses on recent advances and future directions in the study of the plant hormone auxin. Plants are “born,” or germinate from a seed, with a simple body plan. Initially, young plants consist of a set of young leaves and a simple root. From this simple seedling, cues from the environment (Where is the sunlight? Where are the soil nutrients? What season is it?) shape the growth of new organs, such as branches, leaves, and flowers. How this happens is not yet fully understand, but it is known that auxin is an essential regulator of almost every aspect of plant growth and development. The auxin field is one of the most active and rapidly developing areas in plant biology, and new discoveries in this field are contributing to the development of new crops and solutions to food insecurity. To encourage interaction and collaboration among researchers working in the field, this award facilitates inclusion of US scientists in the Auxin 2022 meeting in Croatia, where they will be exposed to new discoveries, interact with international colleagues, and become part of new collaborations. The quadrennial Auxin Meeting, held in October 2022 in Cavtat, Croatia, seeks to promote the exchange of ideas, establishment of future research directions, and development of collaborative relationships among international scientists who study multiple aspects of how the plant hormone auxin regulates plant growth and development. The meeting also represents an opportunity for early-career investigators, trainees, and individuals from underrepresented groups to interact with leaders in the field and to join the international auxin community. More than 30 leading scientists from thirteen countries have agreed to share their latest results at the meeting. The list of invited speakers includes twelve women and eight junior scientists. The award will support travel for two of these invited speakers and meeting registration for 30 additional individuals. To promote dissemination of new discoveries on auxin, invited speakers will prepare papers summarizing new directions in the field that will be published in a special issue of The Journal of Experimental Biology, and an overview of the auxin field will be submitted to the journal, Plant Cell. The award is co-funded by the Plant Genome Research Program and the Physiological Mechanisms and Biomechanics Program in the BIO Division of 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.