2016 Cellular & Molecular Fungal Biology GRC, Plymouth, New Hampshire, June 19-24, 2016

该项目将促进早期职业科学家在细胞和分子真菌生物学戈登研究会议的出席和参与将在学校举行，2016年6月19日至24日。会议的目标是在跨学科的研究人员中传播有关真菌生物学的信息，并增加我们对基础真菌生物学及其在社会重要问题中的应用的集体理解。 真菌是陆地营养循环的重要组成部分，在生物燃料的开发中发挥着核心作用，并产生许多至关重要的化学品。 真菌的这些不同应用需要基础真菌生物学的跨学科获取和应用。 该项目将支持致力于真菌研究的跨学科科学家小组之间的新发现的融合和交流。 该项目的智力价值植根于会议的高度跨学科和互动的形式。会议将以整合真菌生物学中不同问题的多个时间和空间尺度为主题，以促进社区内具有不同观点的研究人员之间的互动。作为本次会议的新内容，特别强调将数学建模和生物物理学相结合，整个会议致力于真菌生物学与物理科学的接口。会议使思想的交叉受精，从细胞生物学到进化，发生在会议内外，特别是初级和高级科学家之间。 年轻的研究人员强调，从以前的会议是如何互动的会议，它是如何响应他们的工作介绍，这次会议有广泛的影响，培训，并致力于扩大研究界强调妇女和代表性不足的群体在邀请发言人。目前受邀的演讲者中约有50%是女性，包括几名拉丁裔。 会议规模小，强调讨论（40%的会议时间用于讨论），鼓励积极参与。海报会议没有竞争性活动，以将注意力集中在最初级的科学家身上，他们通常拥有最新的数据。GRC细胞和分子真菌生物学也致力于研究，将基本知识应用于涉及丝状真菌的社会重要问题，特别是与植物（真菌）的互惠关系，与植物（植物病理学）和动物（动物病理学）的寄生，以及工业真菌学（酶生产）。研究人员之间的相互作用集中在基础和社会重要性研究上，加速了旨在解决真菌引起的或可以通过真菌改善的社会问题的研究。

This project will facilitate the attendance and participation of early career scientists in the Gordon Research Conference on Cellular and Molecular Fungal Biology to be held at the Holderness School, June 19-24, 2016. The goal of the conference is to disseminate information about fungal biology among an interdisciplinary group of researchers, and to increase our collective understanding of basic fungal biology and its application to socially important problems. Fungi are essential parts of the terrestrial nutrient cycle, play a central role in the development of biofuels, and produce many critically important chemicals. These diverse applications of fungi require the interdisciplinary acquisition and application of fundamental fungal biology. This project will support the convergence and exchange of new findings amongst an interdisciplinary group of scientists dedicated to the study of fungi. The intellectual merit of the project is rooted in the meeting's highly interdisciplinary and interactive format. The meeting will feature topics that integrate multiple time and space scales for different questions in fungal biology to promote interactions amongst researchers with diverse perspectives within the community. There is a specific emphasis on integrating mathematical modeling and biophysics as a new addition to this meeting and an entire session is dedicated to the interface of fungal biology with the physical sciences. The meeting enables cross-fertilization of ideas, from cell biology to evolution, that occurs in and outside of the sessions and especially between junior and senior scientists. Young investigators emphasize from previous meetings how interactive the conference is and how responsive it is to the presentation of their work.This conference has broad impacts on training and is dedicated to extending the research community by emphasizing women and members of underrepresented groups in inviting speakers. The current invited speakers are approximately 50% women, including several Latinas. The small size of the meeting and the emphasis on discussion (40% of meeting time is dedicated to discussions) encourages active participation. Poster sessions are featured without competing events to focus attention on the most junior scientists, who often have the newest data. The GRC on Cell and Molecular Fungal Biology also is dedicated to research that applies basic knowledge to socially important questions involving filamentous fungi, particularly mutualisms with plants (mycorrhizae), parasitism with plants (plant pathology) and animals (animal pathology), and industrial mycology (enzyme production). The interactions among researchers focused on both basic and socially important research speeds research aimed at solving societal problems caused by or that can be improved by fungi.