2008 Gordon Research Conference on SALT & WATER STRESS IN PLANTS, September 7-12, 2008 Big Sky, MT

申请的资金将部分支持将于2008年9月7日至12日在MT Big Sky举行的植物盐和水胁迫戈登研究会议，以推进、整合和传播植物对盐和水胁迫反应的前沿研究成果。会议将重点介绍研究和理解各种模型和作物植物物种用于感知和触发对高盐度和缺水的适应性反应的遗传和生化机制以及形态和生理过程的新方法。该奖金将部分用于资助15至30名处于科学事业早期阶段的美国科学家的注册和旅行费用。研究成果将通过口头和海报展示，讨论的主题领域包括基因、蛋白质、过程和/或有助于环境耐受性的网络和系统的鉴定和表征。具体的讨论主题将包括自然变异和进化背景，胁迫感知和信号转导，转录反应和网络，蛋白质表达，修饰和相互作用，代谢反应，离子和水分稳态，氧化应激，整个植物反应的协调，以及不断变化的全球环境下的作物改良。这次会议的独特之处在于，它将促进来自世界各地的研究人员之间的协同互动和长期合作，这些研究人员利用分子、生化、生理、细胞和整个植物的方法在不同规模的组织中进行非生物胁迫研究。会议的更广泛影响包括促进年轻、有才华的早期职业阶段科学家的参与，特别是来自代表性不足群体的科学家。由于全球变暖，气温升高以及气候和降水模式的更大变化预计将对农业生产力产生负面影响。社会将从基础和应用研究的交流和战略讨论中受益，以设计对美国的食品、燃料和纤维安全具有经济重要性的更健壮的作物

The requested funds will provide partial support for a Gordon Research Conference on SALT & WATER STRESS IN PLANTS that will be held on September 7-12, 2008 in Big Sky, MT to advance, integrate and disseminate cutting edge research results on plant responses to salinity and water-deficit stress. The conference will highlight novel approaches to study and understand the genetic and biochemical mechanisms and morphological and physiological processes used by various model and crop plant species to sense and trigger adaptive responses to high salinity and water-deficits. The award will cover, in part, the costs for registration and travel to promote and enable the attendance of 15-30 U.S. scientists at early stages in their scientific careers. Research results will be presented via oral and poster presentations and discussions will be on topic areas that include the identification and characterization of genes, proteins, processes, and/or networks and systems that contribute to environmental stress tolerance. Specific discussion session topics to be covered will include natural variation and evolutionary context, stress perception and signal transduction, transcriptional responses and networks, protein expression, modification and interaction, metabolic responses, ion and water homeostasis, oxidative stress, co-ordination of the whole plant response, and crop improvement for a changing global environment. The Conference is unique in that it will foster synergistic interactions and long-term collaborations among researchers from all over the world who conduct abiotic stress research at diverse scales of organization using molecular, biochemical, physiological, cellular, and whole plant approaches. The broader impacts of the Conference include the promotion of the participation of young, talented early career stage scientists, particularly from underrepresented groups. Increasing temperatures and greater variation in climate and precipitation patterns due to global warming are expected to negatively impact agricultural productivity. Society will benefit from basic and applied research exchange and discussion of strategies to design more robust crops of economic importance for the food, fuel, and fiber security of the U.S.