XI International Symposium on the Plant Hormone Ethylene; June 2-6, Crete, Greece

乙烯是一种对生长发育有深远影响的植物激素。荷尔蒙在生物体和细胞中的作用方式非常复杂，我们才刚刚开始了解由乙烯等荷尔蒙的作用释放出来的相互作用分子的复杂网络。这次会议将召集广泛的科学家，包括研究生和博士后级别的早期职业科学家，讨论导致乙烯释放的细胞和分子系统以及对这种释放做出反应的系统。这次会议将讨论的工作直接关系到美国农业、美国经济以及美国的粮食供应和食品安全。会议的拟议计划涵盖从分子到生物的各种规模的乙烯信号，并将在细胞生物学水平上讨论乙烯信号，将分子和细胞生物学研究结合起来，有助于发展细胞中乙烯信号的系统生物学。会议还将讨论乙烯信号网络的计算建模，以及结合使用生物学、生物物理学和计算方法对乙烯受体结构进行建模的跨学科研究。此外，会议的大部分时间将讨论目前对乙烯信号的理解，因为它在非模式(即非拟南芥)作物、微生物和藻类中发育。增加我们对非模式生物的了解，这是一个重要的领域，因为我们试图将模式物种研究的经验应用到更多样化的生物中。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Ethylene is a plant hormone that has profound effects on growth and development. The way that hormones act in an organism and in the cell is very complex, and we are only beginning to understand the complex web of interacting molecules that are unleashed by the action of a hormone such as ethylene. This meeting will bring together a wide range of scientists, including early career scientists at the level of graduate students and post-doctoral fellows, to discuss the cellular and molecular systems that cause the release of ethylene and the systems that react to that release. The work that will be discussed at this conference is directly relevant to US agriculture, to the US economy, and to the US food supply and food security.The proposed program for the conference covers ethylene signaling across a range of scales, from molecular to organismal, and will discuss ethylene signaling at the cell biology level, integrating molecular and cell biological studies in a way that will help develop the systems biology of ethylene signaling in the cell. There will also be sessions on the computational modeling of ethylene signaling networks and interdisciplinary studies using a combination of biology, biophysics and computational approaches to model ethylene receptor structure. In addition, much of the conference will discuss the current understanding of ethylene signaling as it is developing in non-model (i.e. non-Arabidopsis) crop plants, microbes and algae ? increasing our understanding of non-model organisms, an important area as we try to apply lessons from model species studies to a more diverse range of organisms.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.