Conference: 26th International Symposium on Plant Lipids

该项目将扩大早期职业研究人员参加第26届植物类脂国际研讨会(ISPL)的范围，该研讨会将于2024年7月14-19日在内布拉斯加州林肯大学学生会举行。脂质是植物在不断变化的世界中生存的核心能力，也是捕捉阳光和二氧化碳以创造食物、饲料、纤维和燃料的基石的能力的核心。第26届ISPL将汇集来自世界各地的研究人员，分享有关植物如何制造和调节细胞中发现的各种形式脂质的产生的知识。在这次为期五天的会议上，还将探讨温度变化、降水以及微生物和昆虫病原体对油脂生产的影响。在第26届ISPL期间分享的知识将为改善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肪的含量和质量的战略提供基础，这些共同将促进粮食安全、人类和牲畜健康以及生物经济。该项目将为20名职业生涯早期参与者提供旅费，重点是吸引代表人数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和欢迎的环境。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，这些科学家需要应对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，让他们在一种共同的氛围中聚集在一起，就植物脂类的结构、功能和新陈代谢交换意见。第26届ISPL将在五天内组织成十个主题，涵盖从脂质生物学的基本方面到在农业生物技术和合成生物学中的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，这将成为未来转化发现和支持生物经济的技术的基础。该项目将通过资助20名职业生涯早期参与者的注册和部分旅费，扩大参与范围，使其超越通常参加ISPL的受众。我们将通过已建立的研究协调网络宣传这次会议，这些网络侧重于代表性不足的群体-包括历史上的黑人学院和大学、为少数族裔服务的机构和夏威夷原住民机构。旅游奖获得者将通过口头或海报演示以及“闪电演讲”分享他们的研究成果。此外，ISPL内容的可获得性将通过记录选定的演讲来扩大，这些演讲几乎在会议后分发，并以短论文的形式在一份特别版的期刊上分发。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并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，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.