CONFERENCE: Post-transcriptional Gene Regulation in Plants to be held July 14-15, 2016 at the Austin Convention Center in Austin, TX

该奖项将为将于2016年7月14日至15日在德克萨斯州奥斯汀市奥斯汀会议中心举行的植物转录后基因调控会议提供支持。会议的形式，包括口头报告和海报会议，将提供一个高度互动的环境，以促进在这个令人兴奋的植物生物学领域的最新研究进展的分享。该计划还将包括为年轻和早期职业科学家提供职业建设机会，从而为新一代植物科学家的发展做出贡献。本次会议的时间安排在美国植物生物学家学会2016年植物生物学会议之后，并在同一地点举行，旨在使与会者方便和负担得起。基因表达的转录后调控对许多基本的植物过程至关重要，最近的发现突出了许多影响前mRNA加工，RNA修饰和RNA稳定性的新调控机制。这次会议将为科学家提供机会，就这些新的基因调控模式及其对植物生长和发育的影响，包括对各种非生物和生物胁迫的反应，交换意见。讨论还将包括新的实验和计算方法，允许高通量数据的收集和综合分析。会议将通过促进妇女和代表性不足群体成员的参与，并通过为早期职业研究人员提供与该领域专家建立网络和形成合作的结构化机会，对科学职业发展产生广泛影响。

This award will provide support for a Conference on Post-transcriptional Gene Regulation in Plants to be held July 14-15, 2016 at the Austin Convention Center in Austin, Texas. The format of the meeting, which includes oral presentations and poster sessions, will provide a highly interactive environment to facilitate the sharing of latest research developments in this exciting field of plant biology. The program will also include career-building opportunities for young and early-career scientists, thus contributing to development of a new generation of plant scientists. The timing of this meeting--immediately after, and at the same site as, the American Society of Plant Biologists' Plant Biology 2016 Conference--is intended to make attendance convenient and affordable.Post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression is crucial to many fundamental plant processes, and recent discoveries have highlighted many new regulatory mechanisms impacting pre-mRNA processing, RNA modification, and RNA stability. This conference will provide opportunities for scientists to exchange ideas concerning these new models of gene regulation and their impacts on plant growth and development, including responses to various abiotic and biotic stresses. Discussions will also include novel experimental and computational methods that permit collection and integrative analyses of high throughput data. The conference will have broad impact on scientific career development by promoting participation of women and members of underrepresented groups and by providing early-career researchers with structured opportunities to network and form collaborations with experts in the field.