2004 Plant-Herbivore Interactions Gordon Conference, February 29-March 5, 2004, Ventura California

这是第九届戈登植物-食草动物相互作用研究会议(PHI GRC)，将于2004年2月29日至3月5日在加利福尼亚州文图拉举行。这个非常成功的系列将标志着它的第24个年头，一个展望我们领域未来的项目。通过调查以前的与会者、研究植物食草动物相互作用的更广泛的社区，以及美国和欧洲最近的文献和授予模式，选择了新的和新兴的方法和主题。该项目有24名科学家，他们至少有9年没有出现在之前的PHI GRC上，他们的研究目前正在产生新的和令人兴奋的结果，他们的方法包括新的方法或概念。主要主题包括：微生物对食草动物生活的干预，多面手的饮食，昆虫的寄主专门化，植物食草动物相互作用的生态学，多重选择压力，植物分配：理论和机制，转基因植物：问题和希望，多时空尺度上的相互作用。这个节目应该遵循以前的PHI GRC的模式，并产生高度多样化的受众。第九届会议的一项创新是为优秀的研究生保留了两个25分钟的演讲时段，他们将根据海报摘要进行选择。第九届会议的重点是植物-草食动物相互作用研究的未来发展。所有学生申请者将被鼓励提交摘要。这次会议有望帮助指导未来关于植物-草食动物相互作用的工作。

This is the 9th Gordon Research Conference on Plant-Herbivore Interactions (PHI GRC), to be held February 29-March 5, 2004 in Ventura, California. This very successful series will mark its 24th year with a program that looks to the future of our field. New and emerging approaches and topics were selected by surveying previous attendees, the broader community that studies plant herbivore interactions, and the recent literature and granting patterns in the US and Europe. The program features 24 scientists who have not appeared at previous PHI GRCs in at least 9 years, whose research is currently producing new and exciting results, and whose approaches include new methods or concepts. Major topics will be: Microbial meddling in the lives of herbivores, Diets of Generalists, Host specialization in insects, Ecology of plant herbivore interactions, Multiple selection pressures, Plant allocation: theory and mechanism, Transgenic (GM) plants: Problems and promise, Interactions at multiple spatial & temporal scales. This program should follow the pattern of previous PHI GRCs and produce a highly diverse audience. An innovation of the 9th conference, which focuses on future developments in the study of plant-herbivore interactions, is the reservation of two 25-minute speaking slots for outstanding graduate students who will be chosen on the basis of their poster abstracts. All student applicants will be encouraged to submit abstracts. This conference can be expected to help direct future work on plant-herbivore interactions.