Meeting: Plant Physiology in the 'Omics Era' to be held May 23-25, 2012 in Columbia, Missouri

植物生理学领域为我们理解植物生物学做出了重要贡献，例如，深入了解碳同化和分配过程、氮利用效率、产量提高、植物生长发育的激素控制、光敏色素对红光/远红光的感知以及植物对干旱和矿物质缺乏的反应。虽然这些过程中的许多已经在整个植物水平上进行了几十年的研究，但在某些情况下，很难获得机理上的见解。随着过去15-20年基因组技术的出现，出现了新的机会来解决植物生物学中未解决的长期问题。2012年跨学科植物小组研讨会将于2012年5月23日至25日在密苏里-哥伦比亚大学举行，将汇集来自不同学科角度的不同国际学者，研究植物的基本生物过程。研讨会旨在为研究生和博士后提供交流机会，并为教师和学生创造一个促进合作和跨学科研究项目的场所。国家科学基金会提供的资金将通过支付本科生的参与成本来扩大参与，特别是那些来自较小和少数民族服务机构的学生，以及博士后研究员、研究生和本科生，特别强调女性和代表性不足的群体。

The field of plant physiology has made fundamental contributions to our understanding of plant biology, for instance, insights into the processes of carbon assimilation and partitioning, nitrogen use efficiency, improvements in yield, the hormonal control of plant growth and development, perception of red/far-red light by phytochromes, and plant responses to drought and mineral deficiencies. While many of these processes have been well studied at the whole-plant level for decades, in some cases, mechanistic insights have been difficult to achieve. With the advent of genomic technologies over the last 15-20 years, new opportunities have arisen to address unresolved, long-standing questions in plant biology. The 2012 Interdisciplinary Plant Group Symposium to be held May 23-25, 2012 at the University of Missouri-Columbia will bring together a diverse group of international scholars studying fundamental biological processes in plants from varying disciplinary angles. The symposium is designed in such a way as to enhance networking opportunities for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows and will create a venue to foster collaborative and interdisciplinary research projects for faculty and students. Funding provided by NSF will broaden participation by defraying the costs of participation of undergraduate students, particularly those from smaller and minority-serving institutions, as well as postdoctoral fellows, graduate and undergraduate students with specific emphasis on women and underrepresented groups.