2019 Plant Metabolic Engineering Gordon Research Conference and Gordon Research Seminar, June 16-21, 2019 in Il Ciocco, Italy

第八届戈登植物代谢工程研究会议(GRC)定于6月16日至21日在意大利Il Ciocco举行。不断增加的人口和城市化是影响未来食物、水和能源需求的复杂因素。植物含有惊人的新陈代谢多样性，刚刚开始被利用来应对这些挑战，如增加作物产量，提高粮食产量，以及改造植物生产新的化学产品。在读取和写入植物基因组DNA方面的进步，以及利用植物自然新陈代谢产物多样性的能力，使植物科学家能够设计出具有改进和新颖特征的植物。本次会议的重点是工程植物代谢途径方法的最新突破和进展，以及工程植物在生产生物燃料、改良纤维、医药产品、更好的动物饲料、香料、香料和营养方面的应用。这次会议的成果将为全球科学家提供交流思想和知识的机会，并了解植物代谢工程的新技术和科学进步。此外，本次会议提供了一系列研讨会，面向进入该领域的学生、博士后和其他科学家，以提供更多的培训和知识交流机会。2019戈登植物代谢工程研究会议(GRC)和伴随的戈登植物代谢工程研究研讨会(GRS)将建立在以前GRC的成功基础上，这些GRC专注于途径发现，最近使用合成生物学的概念和方法来更有效地指导植物代谢工程走向产品和应用。细胞内区隔作用、复杂的调控机制和多细胞环境带来的限制(和机会)使得植物代谢途径的发现和设计本身就比微生物途径更具挑战性。在会议期间，来自植物燃料、纤维、制药、饲料、香料、香料和食品工程的领先代表将重点介绍未来重要的技术，这些技术将促进植物代谢工程和实施战略。最终目标是在美国、欧洲和亚洲的植物代谢工程工作者之间建立更强大的网络。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。

The 8th Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Plant Metabolic Engineering is scheduled for Jun 16-21 in Il Ciocco, Italy. Increasing populations and urbanization are compounding factors that impact future food, water, and energy demands. Plants contain a remarkable metabolic diversity that is just beginning to be tapped to address those challenges such as increasing crop yields, enhancing food production, and engineering plants to produce novel chemical products. Advances in reading and writing the DNA of plant genomes as well as the ability to exploit the diversity of natural metabolic production in plants are allowing plant scientists to engineer plants with improved and novel traits. This conference is focused on recently breakthroughs and advances in methods of engineering plant metabolic pathways with applications in engineering plants for the production of biofuels, improved fiber, pharmaceutical products, better animal feed, fragrances, flavors, and nutrition. The outcomes of this conference will provide global scientists the opportunity to exchange ideas and knowledge, and learn about new technologies and scientific advances to plant metabolic engineering. In addition, this conference provides a seminar series targeted at students, postdocs, and other scientists entering the field to provide additional training and knowledge exchange opportunities.The 2019 Gordon Research Conference (GRC) and accompanying Gordon Research Seminar (GRS) on Plant Metabolic Engineering will build on the successes of previous GRCs that have focused on pathway discovery and recently on using the concepts and approaches of synthetic biology to guide plant metabolic engineering more effectively towards products and applications. Constraints (and opportunities) afforded by intracellular compartmentation, complex regulatory control mechanisms and multicellular context have rendered the discovery and design of plant metabolic pathways inherently more challenging than for microbial pathways. During the conference presentations from leading exponents of engineering fuel, fiber, pharma, feed, fragrance, flavors and food in plants, will highlight important future technologies that will facilitate both plant metabolic engineering and implementation strategies. A final objective is to build stronger networks between those working on plant metabolic engineering in the USA, Europe and Asia.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.