Meeting: Plant Vascular Biology 2019 - Promoting Collaborative Research Across Disciplinary Boundaries, June 17-20, 2019, Monterey, California

植物对我们的生态系统和环境至关重要。它们提供人类和动物生存所需的氧气和食物，并为日常生活提供许多材料，包括药品，家具，建筑用品和服装。这些资源大部分由作物和树木生产，但未来人口的增加、可用土地的减少和环境压力对农业和林业构成了重大挑战。例如，长期干旱会降低作物产量，增加森林死亡和野火的风险。植物有一个维管系统，作为运输水，矿物质营养物质和许多其他化合物在整个植物体的主要途径。维管系统也是根与芽之间的沟通所必需的，其结构和功能直接影响植物的生长和生产力。植物血管生物学会议将讨论植物如何应对缺水和干旱，营养物质如何从土壤中吸收并运输到植物的空中部分，细胞壁是生物能源应用和林业的大部分生物质是如何产生的，以及植物如何在环境压力下生存，如营养限制和病原体攻击。会议将促进一个开放的论坛，分享令人兴奋的创新和促进新的合作研究。与会者将了解新的概念进展，最新的技术和技术，以及生产食品和其他生物材料所必需的重大突破。第五届植物维管生物学国际会议将于2019年6月17日至20日在加州蒙特雷附近的Asilomar会议中心举行。 三年一度的会议已经成为植物维管生物学界高度相关和有影响力的事件。它涵盖多个学科，并解决了植物生物学，生态生理学，农业和林业的基本主题。围绕植物维管生物学的基础和应用问题将得到解决，技术和概念突破将在一个令人鼓舞的环境中讨论。会议将汇集来自世界各地的约150名科学家，包括该领域的顶级研究专家。这次会议是介绍初级研究人员到植物维管生物学的不同领域的主要渠道。它促进科学知识的交流，并支持不同职业阶段、性别、种族和国籍的科学家之间的合作。NSF的资金将主要用于支持来自代表性不足群体的学生，博士后和早期职业科学家，否则他们可能无法参加会议。该奖项是由生理机制和生物力学计划和综合生态生理学计划在综合有机系统部门共同资助。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。

Plants are essential of our ecosystem and environment. They deliver the oxygen and the food that humans and animals need to survive and provide many materials for the everyday life including medicine, furniture, building supplies and clothing. Crop plants as well as trees produce most of these resources, but the future increase in human population, reduction of usable land and environmental stresses impose a major challenge to agriculture and forestry. For example, prolonged drought periods reduce crop yield and increase the risk of forest mortality and wildfires. Plants have a vascular system that serves as the main path for transport of water, mineral nutrients, and many other compounds throughout the plant body. The vasculature is also essential for the communication between shoot and root, and its structure and function directly influences plant growth and productivity. The Plant Vascular Biology Conference will address how plants respond to water deficient and drought, how nutrients are taken up and transported from the soil to aerial portions of the plant, how cell walls that are the bulk of biomass for bioenergy applications and forestry are produced, and how plants survive environmental stresses such as nutrient limitations and pathogen attacks. The meeting will facilitate an open forum for sharing exciting innovations and foster new collaborative research. Participants will learn about novel conceptual advances, latest techniques and technologies, and major breakthroughs essential to produce food and other biological materials. The 5th International Conference on Plant Vascular Biology will be held June 17-20 of 2019 at the Asilomar Conference Center near Monterey, California. The triennial meeting has emerged as a highly relevant and impactful event for the plant vascular biology community. It encompasses multiple disciplines and addresses topics that are fundamental to plant biology, ecological physiology, agriculture and forestry. Basic and applied problems surrounding plant vascular biology will be addressed, and technological and conceptual breakthroughs will be discussed in an encouraging environment. The meeting will bring together about 150 scientists from around the world, including the top research experts in the field. This meeting is a primary conduit for introducing junior researchers to the diverse fields of plant vascular biology. It fosters exchange of scientific knowledge and supports collaborations between scientists of different career stages, gender, ethnicity and nationality. The NSF funds will primary be used to support students, postdocs and early-career scientists from underrepresented groups who might otherwise not be able to attend the meeting. This award was co-funded by the Physiological Mechanisms and Biomechanics Program and the Integrative Ecological Physiology 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.