Conference: 26th International Symposium on Plant Lipids

该项目将扩大早期职业研究人员对第26届植物脂类国际研讨会（ISPL）的参与，该研讨会将于2024年7月14日至19日在内布拉斯加大学学生会在林肯举行。脂类是植物在不断变化的世界中生存的核心，也是植物捕捉阳光和二氧化碳以创造食物、饲料、纤维和燃料的基础。第26届ISPL将汇集来自世界各地的研究人员，分享关于植物如何制造和调节细胞中各种形式脂质的生产的知识。在为期五天的会议期间，还将探讨温度变化、降水以及微生物和昆虫病原体对脂质产生的影响。在第26届ISPL期间分享的知识将为提高作物环境适应能力和提高植物油和类胡萝卜素等高价值脂质的含量和质量的战略提供基础，这些战略将共同促进粮食安全、人类和牲畜健康以及生物经济。该项目将为20名早期职业参与者提供旅行资助，重点是吸引代表性不足的群体的参与者，并为研究报告和专业互动创造一个包容、友好的环境。通过这种方法，我们的项目将促进下一代科学家的培训和专业发展，这些科学家需要解决农业和社会面临的全球重大挑战。第26届ISPL将为国际植物脂界提供一个论坛，让高级和初级科学家聚集在一起，在学院氛围中交流关于植物脂的结构、功能和代谢的想法。第26届ISPL会议将分为10个主题，为期5天，涵盖了从脂质生物学的基础方面到农业生物技术和合成生物学应用的广泛连续研究。在这些不同领域工作的研究人员和特邀演讲者的汇聚也将成为科学进步的催化剂，这将成为未来将发现和技术转化为支持生物经济的基础。通过资助20名早期职业参与者的注册和部分旅费，该项目将扩大参与范围，使其超出通常参加ISPL的观众。我们将通过已建立的研究协调网络来宣传这次会议，这些网络主要关注代表性不足的群体，包括传统黑人学院和大学、少数民族服务机构和夏威夷土著机构。旅游获奖者将通过口头或海报展示和“闪电演讲”分享他们的研究成果。此外，将通过录下精选的谈话，在会议后几乎以短论文的形式在某一期刊的特别版上分发，扩大对国际公共图书馆内容的获取。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。

The project will broaden the participation of early career researchers at the 26th International Symposium on Plant Lipids (ISPL) that will be held at the University of Nebraska Student Union on July 14-19, 2024 in Lincoln, NE. Lipids are central to the ability of plants to survive in an ever-changing world and to capture sunlight and carbon dioxide to create the building blocks of food, feed, fibers, and fuels. The 26th ISPL will bring together researchers from across the world to share knowledge on how plants make and regulate the production of the diverse forms of lipids found in their cells. The effects of changing temperatures, precipitation, and microbial and insect pathogens on lipid production will also be explored during this five-day conference. Knowledge shared during the 26th ISPL will provide the basis for strategies to improve crop environmental resilience and to enhance the content and quality of high-value lipids such as vegetable oils and carotenoids, which collectively will promote food security, human and livestock health, and the bioeconomy. The project will provide travel funding to 20 early career attendees, with emphasis on attracting participants from underrepresented groups and creating an inclusive, welcoming environment for research presentations and professional interactions. Through this approach, our project will advance the training and professional development of the next generation of scientists needed to address global grand challenges facing agriculture and society.The 26th ISPL will provide a forum for the international plant lipid community, both senior and junior scientists, to come together in a collegial atmosphere for the exchange of ideas about the structure, function, and metabolism of plant lipids. The 26th ISPL will be organized into ten topics over five days, covering a broad continuum of research from fundamental aspects of lipid biology to applications in agricultural biotechnology and synthetic biology. The convergence of researchers and invited speakers working in these different areas will also be a catalyst for scientific progress that will serve as a basis for future translation of discoveries and technologies to support the bioeconomy. The project will broaden participation beyond the audience that normally attends ISPL through funding to support registration and partial travel expenses of 20 early career attendees. We will advertise the conference through established research coordination networks that are focused on underrepresented groups—including Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Minority-Serving Institutions, and Native Hawaiian Institutions. Travel awardees will share their research through oral or poster presentations and “lightning talks”. Additionally, accessibility to ISPL content will be expanded by recording selected talks to be distributed virtually post-conference and in the form of short papers in a special edition of a journal.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.