The 2019 Gordon Conference on Chloroplast Biotechnology

该奖项支持第三届戈登叶绿体生物技术研究会议的部分资金。这次会议将汇集一个国际小组，讨论与叶绿体基因工程、生物技术和合成生物学有关的科学领域。会议的重点是质体转化的研究和应用，并有四个与质体工程相关的重点领域：（1）工业和制药应用的重组蛋白表达;（2）改造质体基因组以提高光合效率和植物生产力;（3）改造叶绿体的新途径和结构;（4）改造叶绿体的新结构。（4）将新的农艺性状通过转基因控制工程化到叶绿体中。会议容纳了来自美国和国外的研究生，博士后科学家，新研究人员和高质量专家的多样化群体。这次会议以吸引年轻研究人员和资深科学家的良好组合而闻名，研究生和博士后科学家的出席率也很高。关于叶绿体生物技术的GRC将于2019年1月在美国加利福尼亚州文图拉市的文图拉海滩万豪酒店举行。关于叶绿体生物技术的戈登研究会议特别及时地汇集了越来越多的科学家，将叶绿体分子生物学的基础研究与农业，工业生物技术和医疗保健的应用相结合。GRC培养了一种开放的分享精神，并积极促进新信息的传播。所有演讲者都向他们的同事传达了未发表的前沿信息，目的是激发所有与会者的广泛讨论，并逐步推进该领域。由分子和细胞生物科学部的系统和合成生物学集群以及综合有机体系统部的植物基因组研究计划资助。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评价，认为值得支持。

This award supports partial funding of the third Gordon Research Conference on Chloroplast Biotechnology. This conference would bring together an international group to discuss scientific areas pertinent to chloroplast genetic engineering, biotechnology and synthetic biology. The meeting is focused on investigations and applications of plastid transformation and has four focal areas associated with plastid engineering as follows: (1) expression of recombinant proteins for industrial and pharmaceutical applications; (2) engineering the plastid genome to improve photosynthetic efficiency and plant productivity; (3) engineering novel pathways and structures into chloroplasts; (4) engineering novel agronomic traits into chloroplasts with transgene containment. Th conference accommodates a diverse group of graduate students, postdoctoral scientists, new investigators and a high quality of experts from the US and abroad. This conference has a reputation for attracting a good mix of young investigators and senior scientists and there is a good record of attendance by graduate students and postdoctoral scientists. The GRC on Chloroplast Biotechnology will be held in January 2019 at Ventura Beach Marriott, Ventura, CA, USA. The Gordon Research Conference on Chloroplast Biotechnology is particularly timely in bringing together a growing community of scientists combining fundamental studies on chloroplast molecular biology with applications in agriculture, industrial biotechnology and healthcare. GRC fosters an open spirit of sharing and actively promotes the dissemination of new information. All speakers convey unpublished and cutting-edge information to their colleagues with the objective that this disclosure will stimulate extensive discussion among all attendees and progressively advance the field.This conference is co-funded by the Systems and Synthetic Biology cluster in the Division of Molecular and Cellular Bioscience and the Plant Genome Research Program in the Division of Integrative Organismal Systems.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.