Meeting: Workshop on Plant Development and Drought Stress, to be held November 1-4, 2015 at Asilomar Conference Grounds in Pacific Grove, CA.

基金将支持将于2015年11月1日至11月4日在加利福尼亚州太平洋格罗夫的Asilomar会议场地举行的题为“植物发育与干旱胁迫研讨会”的新会议。这次会议的目的是将植物发育生物学家和植物逆境生物学家聚集在一起，以便更好地了解干旱和相关环境逆境如何改变植物的生长和发育。相关的压力包括高温或高浓度的盐，这可能会影响灌溉的田地。植物应激生物学家努力了解细胞对恶劣环境的反应：例如，细胞在应对干旱时产生哪些保护性代谢物，以及细胞用来感知恶劣环境的机械的性质。植物发育是研究植物如何生长的科学：例如，植物如何从枝尖的干细胞群中产生新的身体部分，如叶和茎，不同类型的细胞如何在根、茎和叶中组织起来，以及植物如何控制它们的大小。拟议的研讨会将两组科学家聚集在一起，为期三天。预计这两组科学家之间的互动所产生的协同效应将导致在理解植物如何改变其生长和发育以应对缺水方面取得进展。这反过来有望导致培育耐旱植物的战略得到改进。博士后研究人员和研究生将从提交的旅行奖学金摘要中挑选出来，优先考虑来自代表性不足群体的个人。在过去的20年里，这两个领域--发育生物学和压力生物学--已经达到了高度复杂的水平，对核心机制有详细的了解。控制发育的调控网络和控制压力反应的调控网络现在都很为人所知。因此，这些领域探索重叠和相互作用的已知发展和压力网络的时机已经成熟。被邀请的演讲者是各自领域公认的领导者，他们将发表演讲。发言者还将根据其提交的摘要的优劣和相关性进行选择。初级调查人员(研究生、博士后和助理教授)将被鼓励申请演讲机会。将努力吸收在科学界代表性不足的群体的发言者和与会者。为了确保非正式的气氛，允许科学家之间充分的交换意见，研讨会将限制为100人参加。

Funds will support a new conference entitled "Workshop on Plant Development and Drought Stress" to be held from November 1 to November 4, 2015 at Asilomar Conference Grounds in Pacific Grove, CA. The purpose of this meeting is to bring together plant developmental biologists and plant stress biologists in order to generate a better understanding of how plant growth and development are altered by drought and related environmental stresses. Related stresses include heat or the high concentrations of salt that can affect irrigated fields. Plant stress biologists strive to understand cellular responses to harsh environments: for instance what protective metabolites the cell makes in response to drought and the nature of the machinery the cell uses to sense a harsh environment. Plant development is the study of how plants grow: for instance how plants make new body parts, such as leaves and stem, from groups of stem cells at the tips of branches, how cells of different types become organized in roots, stems and leaves and how plants control their size. The proposed workshop brings both groups of scientists together for three days. It is expected the synergy resulting from interactions between the two groups of scientists will lead to advances in understanding how plants alter their growth and development in response to a lack of water. This in turn is expected to lead to improved strategies for breeding drought tolerant plants. Postdoctoral researchers and graduate students will be chosen from submitted abstracts for travel scholarships, with priority given to individuals from underrepresented groups.Over the last two decades, both fields on their own - developmental biology and stress biology - have reached high levels of sophistication with detailed knowledge of core mechanisms. Much is now known of the regulatory networks controlling development and likewise the regulatory networks controlling stress responses. The fields are therefore ripe for exploring known development and stress networks for overlap and interaction. Invited speakers who are recognized leaders in their fields will present talks. Speakers will also be chosen based on the excellence and relevance of their submitted abstracts. Junior investigators (graduate students, postdocs and assistant professors) will be encouraged to apply for speaking slots. Efforts will be made to include speakers and attendees from groups underrepresented in the sciences. To assure an informal atmosphere that allows for ample give and take between scientists the workshop will be limited to 100 attendees.