2009 Plant Metabolic Engineering GRC & Graduate Research Seminar, July 11-17, in Waterville Valley, New Hampshire

2009年植物代谢工程戈登会议研究生研究研讨会将于2009年7月11日至17日在沃特维尔山谷度假村，新罕布什尔州。戈登会议继续被认为是全球顶级科学会议之一，吸引了顶尖的研究人员，有利于发展互动和探索新的视野。本次会议将继续为发展多学科合作提供一个环境，这些合作对于解开植物代谢网络的动态复杂性和推进植物代谢工程的基础和应用研究至关重要。大约130-150名演讲者和参与者来自美国和国外，来自各个职业层次，代表学术界，工业界，私营机构和联邦实验室。会议将包括九个关于前沿主题的全体会议（包括代谢途径的组织和演变，系统生物学方法和代谢网络，以及理解复杂的代谢和农艺性状）。扩大了从代表性不足的群体中征聘妇女、残疾人和科学家作为发言人和与会者的协调努力。除了标准的GRC，植物代谢工程研究生研究研讨会（GRS）将在GRC之前立即举行，这可以作为未来会议的模板。GRS为初级科学家（博士）提供了一个独特的场所。学生和博士后研究员）在一个更轻松的环境中在同龄人面前展示他们的研究，旨在接触代表性不足的学生和专业人员。2005年，研究生和博士后分别占GRC与会者的11%和18%，突出了这次会议对年轻科学家的教育影响。在2007年，21%和20%的GRC参与者是研究生和博士后，这可能是由于会议的研究生研究研讨会组成部分。超过40%的GRS参与者是妇女，她们都参加了GRC。与2007年的GRS类似，2009年的GRS将以“圆桌讨论”为中心，让与会者有机会接触并公开讨论与所涵盖领域相关的问题以及他们希望学校采取的方向，为与会者提供一个建立会议所有权的机会。将鼓励并期望GRS的参与者留下来参加GRC，进一步加强本次会议的教育部分。预计GRS将对吸引高素质的学生和博士后进入代谢工程领域产生重大影响，并为这些有抱负的年轻科学家提供重要的指导和专业发展机会。

The 2009 Plant Metabolic Engineering Gordon Conference & Graduate Research Seminar will take place July 11-17, 2009, at the Waterville Valley Resort in Waterville Valley, New Hampshire. The Gordon Conferences continue to be considered among the top scientific meetings worldwide, attracting top researchers in settings that are conducive to developing interactions and exploring new horizons. This conference will continue to provide a setting for developing multidisciplinary collaborations essential to unravel the dynamic complexity of plant metabolic networks and advance basic and applied research in plant metabolic engineering. The approximately 130-150 speakers and participants are from the US and abroad, at all career levels, and represent institutions from academia, industry, private institutes, and federal laboratories. The conference will consist of nine plenary sessions on leading edge topics (including organization and evolution of metabolic pathways, systems biology approaches and metabolic networks, and understanding complex metabolism and agronomic traits). Broader Impacts Concerted efforts to recruit women, persons with disabilities, and scientists from underrepresented groups as speakers and participants have been expanded. In addition to the standard GRC, a Graduate Research Seminar (GRS) in Plant Metabolic Engineering will be held immediately before the GRC, which could serve as a template for future meetings. The GRS provides a unique venue for junior scientists (Ph.D. students and postdoctoral fellows) to present their research in a more relaxed setting in front of their peers and is designed to reach out to under-represented groups of students and pre-professionals. In 2005, graduate students and postdocs accounted for 11% and 18% of the participants to the GRC, highlighting the educational impact of this conference on young scientists. In 2007, 21% and 20% of the GRC participants were graduate students and postdocs, which may be attributable to the Graduate Research Seminar component of the conference. Greater than 40% of the GRS participants were women, all of who attended the GRC. Similar to the 2007 GRS, the 2009 GRS will be centered on "Roundtable Discussions", opportunities for participants to be exposed to and openly discuss issues related to the fields to be covered as well as the direction that they expect the school to take, providing the participants with an opportunity to establish ownership of the meeting. Participants to the GRS will be encouraged and expected to stay for the GRC, further enhancing the educational component of this conference. It is expected that the GRS will have a significant impact in attracting high caliber students and postdocs to the field of metabolic engineering, and provide significant mentoring and professional development opportunities for these aspiring, junior scientists.