Conference on Plant Synthetic Biology Conference to be held in San Jose CA; August 2019

由美国植物生物学家协会（ASPB）召集的植物合成生物学（SynBio）卫星会议旨在提高社区对SynBio是什么以及它在经济和知识追求的关键领域可以做些什么的认识。这些包括作物生产力，特种化学品，生物传感器和微生物-植物相互作用。会议的结构是最大限度地提高参与和信息共享之间的估计185参与者在所有职业阶段从学术，工业和政府研究团队和促进公共部门？行业交流。这对早期职业植物科学家的影响尤其巨大，他们所有人都将在SynBio时代度过自己的职业生涯，其中许多人将从事SynBio研发。因此，多达34名早期职业研究人员将获得该奖项的支持，特别强调扩大参与。Plant SynBio Satellite会议将利用其与美国植物生物学学会2019年年会的联系，该会议通常吸引来自40个国家的1，300多名科学家，并将于2019年8月在同一地点（加利福尼亚州圣何塞）举行。这两个会议将通过一个关于SynBio的共享全体研讨会进行整合，进一步将该奖项的影响扩展到ASPB所服务的更广泛的植物科学界。合成生物学（SynBio）是DNA技术、工程原理和计算工具的变革性组合，使设计新的生命过程和重新利用现有的自然过程成为可能，从而产生新的知识、设备和产品。SynBio已经在从生物合成途径到植物与微生物之间的相互作用等领域改变植物科学。作为一场概念和操作上的革命，SynBio有望比20世纪70年代开始的分子生物学革命更具创造性。这是因为SynBio（i）打开了植物和其他生物体所拥有的巨大的“设计空间”，而这些空间在自然界中是不存在的，（ii）通过使用计算指导，自动化和标准化的工程程序来逐步增强生物学的工业化。基于SynBio的公司正在蓬勃发展，他们创造的职业道路也在蓬勃发展;然而，处于各个职业阶段的植物科学家才刚刚开始意识到SynBio将在多大程度上影响培训需求以及实验的设计和执行。由美国植物生物学家协会（American Society of Plant Biologists）召集的Plant SynBio Satellite Meeting旨在提高社区对SynBio的认识，以及它在经济和知识追求的关键领域可以做些什么。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并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估，被认为值得支持。

The Plant Synthetic Biology (SynBio) Satellite Meeting, convened by the American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB), aims to raise community consciousness of what SynBio is and what it can do in key areas of economic and intellectual pursuit. These include crop productivity, specialty chemicals, biosensors, and microbe-plant interactions. The conference is structured to maximize engagement and information sharing among an estimated 185 participants at all career stages from academic, industry, and government research teams and promote public sector?industry exchanges. The impact will be especially great on early-career plant scientists, all of whom will spend their careers in the SynBio era and many of whom will pursue careers in SynBio research and development. Accordingly, up to 34 early career researchers will be supported by this award, with a special emphasis on broadening participation. The Plant SynBio Satellite Meeting will leverage its association with the annual American Society of Plant Biology 2019 meeting, which typically attracts more than 1,300 scientists from 40 countries and which will be held at the same site (San Jose, CA) just prior in August 2019. The two conferences will be integrated via a shared plenary symposium on SynBio, further extending the impact of this award to the broader plant science community that ASPB serves.Synthetic biology (SynBio) is a transformative combination of DNA technologies, engineering principles, and computational tools that makes it possible to design new life processes and to repurpose existing, natural ones to generate new knowledge, devices, and products. SynBio is already transforming plant science in fields ranging from biosynthetic pathways to the interactions between plants and microorganisms. As both a conceptual and an operational revolution, SynBio promises to be even more creatively disruptive than the molecular biology revolution that began in the 1970s. This is because SynBio (i) opens access to the vast "design space" that plants and other organisms have that is not represented in the natural world, and (ii) industrializes biology by augmenting step-by-step work with computationally guided, automated, and standardized engineering procedures. SynBio-based companies are burgeoning, as are the career pathways that they create; however, plant scientists at all career stages are only just starting to appreciate the extent to which SynBio will impact training needs and the design and execution of experiments. The Plant SynBio Satellite Meeting, convened by the American Society of Plant Biologists, aims to raise community consciousness of what SynBio is and what it can do in key areas of economic and intellectual pursuit.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.