The Tenth International Conference on Arabidopsis Research to be held July 4-8, 1999 in Melbourne, Australia.

该奖项将为美国青年科学家参加1999年7月4日至8日在澳大利亚墨尔本举行的第十届拟南芥研究国际会议提供资助。 其目的是为这些年轻的研究人员提供一个机会，与来自世界各地的同事交流有关模式植物拟南芥研究的各个方面的想法。 会议将包括环境感知和非生物胁迫、表观遗传学和基因表达、结构和功能基因组学、代谢和运输、信号转导、植物病原体相互作用、营养和生殖发育和分化以及受精和胚胎发生等会议。拟南芥是作物植物发育和生理学的优秀模型，在拟南芥中的许多发现也很容易应用于农作物。

This award will provide support to help junior U.S. scientists to attend the Tenth International Conference on Arabidopsis Research to be held in Melbourne, Australia, July 4-8, 1999. The aim is to provide an opportunity for these young researchers to exchange ideas with colleagues from around the world on all aspects of research concerning the model plant Arabidopsis. The conference will include sessions on environmental perception and abiotic stress, epigenetics and gene expression, structural and functional genomics, metabolism and trafficking, signal transduction, plant pathogen interactions, vegetative and reproductive development and differentiation, and fertilization and embryogenesis.Arabidopsis is an excellent model for crop plant development and physiology, and many of the findings made in Arabidopsis are readily applicable to crop plants.