Conference: 2017 Plant Metabolic Engineering Gordon Research Conference and Gordon Research Seminar; July 8-14, 2017; Waterville Valley Conference Center, New Hampshire

2017年代谢工程戈登研究会议和戈登研究研讨会（GRS）系列将于2017年7月在新罕布什尔州沃特维尔谷会议中心举行。这是一系列会议中的第七届，吸引了代谢工程领域的世界领导者。本次会议的一个主要目的是将学术界和工业界的从业者聚集在一起，建立一个跨学科专家社区，他们准备将创新概念转化为切实的进步。这对于实现万众期待的20世纪生物经济事业是必要的。这次戈登会议的教育方面是让学生和初级研究人员接触到各个领域的领导者，并展示代谢工程领域跨学科研究的力量。这些人也将有机会从领先的学者和实业家那里获得有价值的反馈，这可能对他们未来的职业道路产生重大影响。会议由组织者、特邀演讲者、学生、初中级职业学者和专业人士组成。自分子生物学出现以来，植物代谢研究得到了迅速发展，随着组学/大数据时代的到来，植物代谢研究加速发展。然而，很明显，基于原料和燃料、药品和食品的绿色生产平台的全球生物经济的全部潜力需要来自跨学科研究的创新。合成生物学这一新兴领域在为推进植物代谢工程创造一个多方面的工程平台方面发挥了重要作用。这次戈登研究会议（GRC）将汇集来自植物和微生物工程、合成生物学和计算生物化学的领导人，以及来自工业和资助机构的科学家。会议旨在1)强调合成生物学如何改变新陈代谢的目的；2)展示生物经济领域的前沿工程和发现研究；3)探索植物如何被重构为代谢生产的“底盘生物”。

The 2017 Metabolic Engineering Gordon Research Conference and Gordon Research Seminar (GRS) series to be held in July 2017 at Waterville Valley Conference Center in New Hampshire. It is seventh in a series of conferences that attract world-leaders in the field of Metabolic Engineering. A major aim of this conference is to bring together practitioners from academia and industry to develop a community of cross-disciplinary experts who are poised to translate innovative concepts into tangible progress. This will be necessary to realize the much anticipated 20th century bioeconomic enterprise. The educational aspect of this Gordon Conference is to expose students and junior researchers to the leaders in the various fields, and to showcase the power of cross-disciplinary research in the area of metabolic engineering. These individuals will have a chance also to receive valuable feedback from the leading academics and industrialists, which may have major impacts on their future career paths. The conference is organized by a well balanced demographic of organizers, invited speakers, students and junior- and mid-career academics and professionals. Research in plant metabolism has advanced rapidly since the advent of molecular biology, and has accelerated with the arrival of the omics/big data era. However, It has become clear that full potential of a global bioeconomy based on green production platforms for feedstocks and fuels, drugs, and food, requires innovations derived from interdisciplinary research. The emerging field of Synthetic Biology has played a significant role in creating a multifaceted engineering platform for advancing plant metabolic engineering. This Gordon Research Conference (GRC) will bring together leaders from plant and microbial engineering, synthetic biology, and computational biochemistry, as well as scientists from industry and funding agencies. The conference seeks to 1) highlight how synthetic biology can repurpose metabolism; 2) present cutting-edge engineering and discovery research from the biobased economy sectors; 3) explore how plants could be refactored to serve as metabolic production "chassis organisms.