Conference: 39th MU Interdisciplinary Plant Group (IPG) Annual Symposium

会议：第39届密苏里大学跨学科植物组（IPG）年度研讨会

• 批准号: 2305283
• 负责人: Ruthie Angelovici
• 金额: $ 1.52万
• 依托单位: University of Missouri-Columbia
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-05-01 至 2024-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2305283&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Conference; 39th; MU; Interdisciplinary; Plant

Pathogens, insects, and different stresses such as flooding, prolonged droughts, and heat waves, inflict heavy losses to agricultural production worldwide and threaten global food security. The alarming increase in the frequency and intensity of these stresses, an outcome of global warming and climate change, highlights the importance of studying how plants can be made more resilient to stress. Based on these studies, new varieties of many different crops and trees can be developed with increased tolerance to different stresses. These would decrease annual damages associated with different pathogens, and stresses such as drought, flooding, or heat waves, preventing billions of dollars’ worth in damages to agriculture, and increasing food security under a changing climate. In addition to increasing the knowledge base of plant responses to abiotic stress, training of a new generation of researchers in interdisciplinary research methods is a must, as novel technologies that mitigate climate change would most likely come from interdisciplinary research. The current grant will support an interdisciplinary conference that focuses on how to make plants more tolerant to stress. The planned symposium will enhance the learning and networking opportunities afforded to students, postdoctoral fellows, and early career scientists and expose them to interdisciplinary research. Furthermore, by instilling the virtues of interdisciplinary collaboration early in students’ careers the conference will extend the benefits to society because the mindset and approaches needed to tackle big societal challenges will be taught to the next generation of scientists.Reactive oxygen species, and the changes they cause in the reduction–oxidation (redox) state of cells, are key signaling molecules required for the activation of plant acclimation and defense mechanisms. Dissecting and understanding how reactive oxygen species orchestrate plant responses to stress will significantly contribute to the overall efforts of the scientific community to improve plant tolerance to stress and mitigate some of the current and upcoming harsh environmental challenges. The 39th University of Missouri Interdisciplinary Plant Group’s Annual Symposium was therefore developed around the theme of Redox Regulation of Plant Stress and Development (May 23-26, 2023). This symposium will bring together experts at the intersections of different disciplines to educate the scientific community about reactive oxygen species and redox signaling and the many different processes tightly linked to them. The symposium will also broaden participation of underrepresented groups. It includes, for example, a diverse group of speakers, so that students from diverse backgrounds could see themselves represented. Of the 18 confirmed speakers, 8 are women, and 5 are of non-white ethnicity. Furthermore, early career scientists are included as invited speakers: 4 assistant professor-level and 1 postdoc, of which 3 are women and 2 are African American. This will provide a platform for women and underrepresented minorities to advance their careers by providing visibility of their work at a world-renowned meeting, attended by numerous distinguished scientists, two of whom are members of the National Academy of Sciences.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.

病原体、昆虫以及洪水、长期干旱和热浪等不同压力给全球农业生产造成重大损失，并威胁到全球粮食安全。作为全球变暖和气候变化的结果，这些压力的频率和强度都在惊人地增加，这凸显了研究如何使植物更能适应压力的重要性。在这些研究的基础上，可以培育出许多不同作物和树木的新品种，提高它们对不同胁迫的耐受性。这将减少与不同病原体相关的年度损失，以及干旱、洪水或热浪等压力，防止价值数十亿美元的农业损失，并在气候变化的情况下增加粮食安全。除了增加植物对非生物胁迫反应的知识基础外，必须培养新一代跨学科研究方法的研究人员，因为减缓气候变化的新技术很可能来自跨学科研究。目前的拨款将支持一个跨学科会议，该会议的重点是如何使植物更耐压力。计划中的研讨会将为学生、博士后研究员和早期职业科学家提供学习和交流的机会，并使他们接触跨学科研究。此外，通过在学生职业生涯的早期灌输跨学科合作的优点，会议将扩大社会的利益，因为解决重大社会挑战所需的心态和方法将被传授给下一代科学家。活性氧及其引起细胞氧化还原状态的变化是激活植物适应和防御机制所需的关键信号分子。解剖和理解活性氧如何协调植物对压力的反应将大大有助于科学界提高植物对压力的耐受性，减轻一些当前和即将到来的恶劣环境挑战。因此，第39届密苏里大学跨学科植物组年度研讨会围绕植物胁迫和发育的氧化还原调控主题展开（2023年5月23日至26日）。本次研讨会将汇集不同学科交叉点的专家，向科学界介绍活性氧和氧化还原信号以及与它们紧密相关的许多不同过程。专题讨论会还将扩大代表性不足的群体的参与。例如，它包括一个多元化的演讲者群体，这样来自不同背景的学生就能看到自己被代表了。在已确认的18名发言人中，有8名是女性，5名是非白人。此外，还邀请了4位助理教授级别的早期职业科学家和1位博士后，其中3位是女性，2位是非洲裔美国人。这将为妇女和代表性不足的少数群体提供一个平台，通过在一个世界知名的会议上展示他们的工作，为她们的职业发展提供一个平台，许多杰出的科学家参加了这次会议，其中两位是美国国家科学院的成员。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。