Conference: 2012 Plant and Microbial Cytoskeleton Gordon Research Conference being held August 12-17, 2012 in Andover, NH

在本次会议上提出的研究采用了不同的有机体和实验方法，因此是高度跨学科的。以下两个目标将体现会议的智力价值：向所有与会者介绍在植物、真菌、细菌和其他微生物的细胞骨架结构、动力学、组织和功能调控方面最令人兴奋的进展。这将主要通过邀请演讲者进行31次长篇演讲，根据提交的摘要邀请大约15次简短演讲，以及大多数其他会议参与者进行的海报展示来完成。参与者之间的讨论在每次演讲后，在海报会议，用餐和空闲时间也将在沟通进展，并激发对未来项目和合作的想法方面发挥关键作用。促进理解和激发对数学、生物物理和计算方法的兴趣，以理解细胞骨架的调节和功能。2012年会议计划选择了两个新的重点领域来实现这一目标：使用数学/生物物理建模，以及使用计算方法在细胞骨架和细胞骨架相互作用蛋白的荧光成像中实现单分子分辨率。七个完整的邀请演讲将说明使用这些方法来研究细胞骨架，预计也将选择使用这些方法的简短演讲者。更广泛的影响主席和副主席完全致力于扩大对本会议及其所代表的科学界的参与。为此目的，它们将追求下列两个目标：为参加本次会议的青年科学家提供职业发展机会。在31位受邀的演讲者中，有8位是他们第一次担任教职的前6年以内，并且尚未获得终身教职。15位简短演讲嘉宾中，大多数都是刚入职的教师、博士后或博士生，几乎所有其他与会者都将展示他们研究的海报。这次会议规模小，互动性强，这将有助于年轻科学家与更成熟的科学家互动。因此，参加本次会议的青年科学家将有很好的职业发展机会。扩大对这次会议的参与。大多数受邀演讲者以前从未在这个会议上发言。这次会议做了广泛的宣传，以激发以前没有参加过会议的人的兴趣。为了进一步扩大参与，nsf资助的奖项将颁发给学生、博士后和早期职业教师，他们可能因经济原因无法参加，或者甚至可能没有考虑参加，优先考虑女性和urm。

Intellectual MeritResearch to be presented at this conference employs a diverse collection of organisms and experimental approaches, and is thus highly interdisciplinary. The following two objectives exemplifying the intellectual merit of the conference will be accomplished:1. Communicate to all conference participants the most exciting advances in understanding the regulation of cytoskeletal structure, dynamics, organization and function in plants, fungi, bacteria and other microbes. This will be accomplished primarily via 31 full length talks given by invited speakers, approximately 15 short talks invited based on submitted abstracts, and poster presentations given by most other conference participants. Discussions among participants after each talk and during poster sessions, meals, and free time will also play a key role in communicating advances, and stimulating ideas for future projects and collaborations.2. Promote understanding of, and stimulate interest in mathematical, biophysical and computational approaches to understanding cytoskeletal regulation and function. Two new areas of emphasis for the 2012 conference program were chosen to accomplish this goal: use of mathematical/biophysical modeling, and use of computational methods to achieve single molecule resolution in fluorescence imaging of cytoskeletal and cytoskeleton-interacting proteins. Seven full length invited talks will illustrate use of these approaches to study the cytoskeleton, and it is anticipated that short talk speakers employing these approaches will also be chosen.Broader Impacts The Chair and Vice Chair are fully committed to the goal of broadening participation in this conference and the scientific community it represents. To this end, they will pursue the following two objectives:3. Provide career building opportunities for young scientists attending this conference. Eight of 31 invited speakers are within the first six years of their first faculty position and untenured. Most of the 15 short talk speakers will be early career faculty, postdocs or Ph.D. students, and virtually all other meeting participants will present a poster on their research. The small size and highly interactive nature of this conference will facilitate the ability of young scientists to interact with more established ones. Thus, young scientists attending this conference will have excellent career-building opportunities.4. Broaden participation in this conference. The majority of invited speakers have never previously spoken at this conference. The conference has been advertised widely to stimulate interest from individuals who have not previously attended. To further broaden participation, NSF-funded awards will be made to students, postdocs and early career faculty who might not otherwise be able to attend for financial reasons or who might not even have considered attending, with priority given to women and URMs.