Pan American Plant Membrane Biology Workshop in Puebla,Mexico May 27-29,2009

第三届泛美膜生物学研讨会将于2009年5月27-30日在墨西哥普埃布拉举行。研讨会将涵盖在理解植物膜生物学的基础和应用方面的最重要的突破。会议将重点讨论运输、信号和贩运问题，因为这些调查领域正在以极快的速度扩大。鉴于膜生物学的重要性及其继续作出具有广泛基础重要性的开创性发现的潜力，以及对交流和互动机会的巨大科学需求，本次会议的主题既令人兴奋又及时。具体目标是(1)组织和支持一次关于植物膜生物学研究领域最新科学进展的会议(2)促进科学家和学员之间的互动，分享与正常生长、发育和营养有关的膜生物学领域的新发现，并加强培训和新的合作，以推动该领域的发展，以及(3)让新独立的科学家和学员直接参加会议，包括研究生和博士后研究员、妇女、少数群体和残疾人。

The 3rd Pan American Membrane Biology Workshop will be held in Puebla, Mexico May 27-30 2009. The workshop will cover the most important breakthroughs in understanding both basic and applied aspects of plant membrane biology. The meeting will focus on transport, signaling and trafficking, as these fields of investigation are expanding at an extremely rapid pace. Given the importance of membrane biology and its potential to continue to make groundbreaking discoveries of broad fundamental importance and the large scientific demand for opportunities to communicate and interact, the topic of this meeting is both exciting and timely. The specific objectives are to (1) organize and support a meeting on the latest scientific advances in the research area of plant membrane biology (2) promote interactions between scientists and trainees to share new discoveries in the field of membrane biology as it relates to normal growth, development and nutrition and to enhance training and new collaborations that will move the field forward and (3) to directly involve newly independent scientists and trainees including graduate students and postdoctoral fellows, women, minorities and the disabled in the conference.