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胁迫，给全球农业生产造成重大损失，并威胁全球粮食安全。由于全球变暖和气候变化，这些压力的频率和强度惊人地增加，突出了研究如何使植物对压力更具弹性的重要性。基于这些研究，可以开发出许多不同作物和树木的新品种，提高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，防止数十亿美元的农业损失，并在气候变化下增加粮食安全。除了增加植物对非生物胁迫反应的知识基础外，必须对新一代研究人员进行跨学科研究方法的培训，因为缓解气候变化的新技术很可能来自跨学科研究。目前的赠款将支持一个跨学科的会议，重点是如何使植物更耐受压力。计划中的研讨会将加强为学生，博士后研究员和早期职业科学家提供的学习和网络机会，并使他们接触跨学科研究。此外，通过在学生的职业生涯早期灌输跨学科合作的优点，会议将扩大对社会的好处，因为应对重大社会挑战所需的心态和方法将教授给下一代科学家。活性氧及其在细胞还原-氧化（氧化还原）状态中引起的变化，是激活植物适应和防御机制所需的关键信号分子。剖析和理解活性氧如何协调植物对胁迫的反应，将大大有助于科学界提高植物对胁迫的耐受性，减轻当前和即将到来的一些恶劣环境挑战的整体努力。因此，第39届密苏里州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节（2023年5月23日至26日）的主题进行了开发。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之密切相关的许多不同过程。专题讨论会还将扩大代表性不足群体的参与。例如，它包括一个多样化的演讲者群体，以便来自不同背景的学生可以看到自己的代表。在确认的18名发言者中，8名为妇女，5名为非白人。此外，还邀请了早期职业科学家作为特邀演讲人：4名助理教授和1名博士后，其中3名是妇女，2名是非洲裔美国人。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来促进他们的职业发展，众多杰出的科学家出席了会议，其中两名是美国国家科学院的成员，该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得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来支持。