Signalling in Plant Development Conference, September 27th-October 1, 1995 New York

植物发育信号会议将于1995年9月27日至10月1日在冷泉港实验室举行。这将是一个公开的国际会议，将致力于两个快速发展领域的最新进展和发现-植物中的信号转导机制和植物发育的分子生物学。高等植物的发育受到来自体内和体外的多种信号的调控，这些信号会引起一般的和特定的生物反应，阐明信号传导的机制对理解植物的发育至关重要。即将召开的会议的重点是解释和整合植物发育背景下信号转导机制的新发现。在过去几年中，光形态发生调控因子的克隆、钙和cGMP在发育对光反应中的作用的阐明、花粉-柱头相互作用调控因子的克隆、控制开花时间的基因的克隆以及参与病原体识别的基因的克隆等方面的快速进展证明了召开这样一次会议的必要性。会议将在面对面接触的气氛中，在共同框架内介绍这些不同主题的最新成果和方法。与冷泉港会议的传统形式保持一致，口头报告将主要是关于新的未发表的发现。特别鼓励年轻科学家的演讲。会议涉及的领域包括：1)发芽，2)光形态发生，3)营养生长，4)开花，5)授粉和受精，5)果实发育和胚胎发生，6)改变的发育程序-环境效应和7)改变的发育程序-生物效应。＊＊＊

9507339 Sundaresan The meeting on Signalling in Plant Development will be held at the Cold Spring Harbor laboratory from September 27 to October 1, 1995. It will be an open international meeting that will be devoted to recent advances and discoveries at the interface of two swiftly progressing fields - signal transduction mechanisms in plants, and the molecular biology of plant development. The development of a higher plant is regulated by a multitude of signals from within and without, that evoke both generalized and specific biological responses, and elucidation of the mechanisms of signalling is vital to understanding plant development. The emphasis of the forthcoming meeting is on interpreting and integrating new finding on the mechanisms of signal transduction within the context of plant development. The need for such a meeting is evidenced by the rapid advances during the last few years, e.g. cloning of regulators of photomorphogenesis, elucidation of the roles of calcium and cGMP in the developmental response to light, cloning of regulators of pollen-stigma interactions, cloning of genes that control flowering time, and cloning of genes involved in pathogen recognition. The meeting will allow presentation of recent results and methodologies in these different topics within a common framework, in an atmosphere of face to face contact. In keeping with the traditional format of Cold Spring Harbor meetings, the oral presentations will be primarily on new unpublished finding. and particular encouragement will be given to presentations by younger scientists. The areas to be covered by the meeting are: 1) Germination, 2) Photomorphogenesis, 3) Vegetative growth, 4) Flowering, 5) Pollination and fertilization, 5) Fruit development and embryogenesis, 6) Altered developmental programs- environmental effectors and 7) Altered developmental programs- biological effectors. ***