Gordon Research Conference on Plant Molecular Biology: Dynamic Plant Systems, Holderness, New Hampshire, June 10-15, 2018

第五届戈登植物分子生物学研究会议题为动态植物系统，定于2018年6月10日至15日在新罕布什尔州霍尔登举行。这次会议通过解决植物系统中一个研究不足的方面--时间来促进科学的进步。为了生存，植物必须实时适应不断变化的环境，通常在很长一段时间内保持这些反应，但目前的研究通常只捕获反应的快照。这次会议将突出新的方法和途径，以跟踪和分析动态工厂的反应，在真实的时间，在不同的时间尺度和不同层次的调查。它汇集了这个新兴领域的世界专家，来自包括细胞生物学，发育，生理学，基因组学，环境生物学和进化生物学在内的各种学科，并将他们与年轻科学家一起置于一个小型环境中，以培养植物生物学的一个新的子学科，动态植物系统。了解这些动态对国家健康，繁荣和福利具有实际意义，会谈将讨论新方法如何能够捕捉具有经济重要性的实时植物反应。一个例子是开发一个系统，允许实时跟踪根结构，基因表达和微生物协会的复杂变化，模型和作物植物物种在其环境中的变化。另一个例子是光信号通路和生物钟的协调作用如何增强植物在自然环境中的表现。演讲者的科学多样性在种族和性别方面也是多样的，组织者将有一个外展顾问，专注于社交媒体和代表性不足的人口统计，以扩大在这个令人兴奋的新领域的参与。由于动态影响植物生物学的各个部分，会议将保持植物生物学主题的广度，但在调查尺度上对时间的独特关注。这些跨越了一个基调，提出了基因组学，表观基因组学和蛋白质组学的进展，加上新的建模和统计方法，包括基于时间的研究，开始揭示以前未知的基因网络相互作用在各种水平上，无法确定使用更传统的手段。其他基于时间的研究将揭示以高分辨率在3D中捕获这些细胞网络连接的新实验方法，以及随着时间的推移分析和可视化这些细胞-细胞网络的方法。此外，演讲将介绍如何光片显微镜已经发现了一个基于时间的，时钟般的过程负责定位侧根沿着根主轴。吸引科学家到一个新的研究领域的一个重要组成部分是支持职业发展，会议将包括几项活动，包括旨在支持年轻科学家，特别是我们科学界女性的专业成长的Power Hour，并提供一个讨论和指导的开放论坛。相关的戈登研究研讨会（GRS）将在会议开始前两天举行。GRS是研究生、博士后展示和交流新数据和前沿思想的独特论坛。一个讨论部分将集中在从研究生和博士后研究到进一步的科学事业的过渡，由早期职业助理教授主持。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估的支持。

The fifth Gordon Research Conference on Plant Molecular Biology is entitled Dynamic Plant Systems, scheduled for June 10-15, 2018 in Holderness, NH. This meeting promotes the advancement of science by tackling an understudied dimension of plant systems - time. To survive, plants must adapt to an ever-changing environment in real-time, often maintaining those responses over a prolonged time, yet current studies typically capture only a snapshot of a response. This conference will highlight new methods and approaches to track and analyze dynamic plant responses in real time, at different time-scales and at different levels of inquiry. It brings together world experts in this emerging field, from a variety of disciplines that include cell biology, development, physiology, genomics, environmental biology and evolutionary biology, and puts them in a small setting with young scientists to nucleate a new subdiscipline of plant biology, Dynamic Plant Systems. Understanding these dynamics has practical implications for national health, prosperity and welfare, and talks will address how new approaches are able to capture real-time plant responses that have economic importance. One example is a system developed to allow real-time tracking of complex changes in root architecture, gene expression, and microbial associations that both model and crop plant species have to changes in their environment. Another example captures how the coordinate actions of light-signaling pathways and the circadian clock enhance plant performance in natural environments. The scientifically diverse slate of speakers is also diverse ethnically and with respect to gender, and the organizers will have an outreach consultant focusing on social media and underrepresented demographics to broaden participation in this exciting new area.As dynamics affects all parts of plant biology, the meeting will keep a breadth across topics in plant biology, but with a unique focus on time across scales of inquiry. These span a keynote which presents advances in genomics, epigenomics and proteomics, coupled to novel modeling and statistical approaches, including time-based studies that beginning to reveal previously unknown gene-network interactions at a variety of levels that could not be identified using more conventional means. Other time- based studies will reveal new experimental methods to capture these cellular network connections in 3D at high resolution, as well as methods to analyze and visualize these cell-cell networks over time. In addition, presentations will introduce how light sheet microscopy has uncovered a time-based, clock-like process responsible for the positioning of lateral roots along the root primary axis. An important part of attracting scientists to a new field of study is supporting career development, and the meeting will include several activities including a Power Hour intended to support the professional growth of young scientists, especially women in our scientific communities and provide an open forum for discussion and mentoring. An associated Gordon Research Seminar (GRS) will take place over the course of two-days leading up to the start of the conference. The GRS is a unique forum for graduate students, post- docs to present and exchange new data and cutting-edge ideas. One discussion section will focus on the transition from graduate and post-doc studies to further careers in science, hosted by an early career Assistant Professor.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.