Meeting: MEPS 2013: Plant Signaling Systems-From Cells to Environment, College Station, TX, May 13-14, 2013

智力优点：该项目资助MEPS（分子和环境植物科学）研讨会2013：植物信号系统：从细胞到环境，将于&2013年5月13日至14日在德克萨斯州学院站的德克萨斯A M大学举行。 该专题讨论会将是2005年发起的系列专题讨论会的第八次。 这些研讨会的目标是促进基础植物科学在该地区，使教师和学生周围邀请国家和国际演讲者进行前沿研究，并促进组织者，与会者和演讲者之间的对话和合作。 本次研讨会的主题将涉及植物信号传导的日益增长的领域，从细胞信号转导到植物对生物和非生物环境的反应。 研讨会将包括由特邀讲者作口头报告、由当地和区域参与者作海报展示以及与特邀讲者进行讨论。更广泛的影响：研讨会吸引了来自当地和区域机构的20多个学术项目的170多名参与者。 除了支付部分会议费用外，从该提案中获得的资源将用于促进区域初级科学家，即本科生和研究生，博士后和早期职业教师的参与，支付他们的差旅费，并以数字方式传播研讨会成果，以便更广泛的受众可以使用。 早期职业演讲者的邀请及其与与会者的互动应该为年轻科学家提供榜样。 最后，在这次研讨会上，研究小组之间的互动，像过去的，将促进新的合作和协同活动，应最大限度地提高当前和未来的研究人员的生产力。

Intellectual merit: This project funds the MEPS (Molecular and Environmental Plant Science) Symposium 2013: Plant Signaling Systems: From Cells to the Environment, to be held at Texas A&M University in College Station, TX, on May 13-14, 2013. The symposium will be the 8th of the series of symposia initiated in 2005. The objectives of these symposia are to promote basic plant sciences in the region by bringing faculty and students together around invited national and international speakers conducting cutting-edge research, and to foster dialog and collaboration among organizers, attendees, and speakers. The theme of this symposium will address the growing field of plant signaling, ranging from cellular signal transduction to plant responses to biotic and abiotic environments. The symposium will consist of oral presentations by invited speakers, poster sessions by local and regional participants, and discussion sessions with invited speakers.Broader impacts: The symposium attracts over 170 participants representing over 20 academic programs from local and regional institutions. The resources derived from this proposal will be used, in addition to cover a part of meeting expenses, to promote participation of regional junior scientists, namely undergraduate and graduate students, postdocs, and early-career faculty by defraying their traveling costs, and to digitally disseminate the symposium outcomes so that it will be available to a broader audience. Invitation of early career speakers and their interaction with participants should provide role models to junior scientists. Finally, interactions between research groups at this symposium, like past ones, will facilitate new collaborative and synergistic activities that should maximize productivities of current and future researchers.