Conference: Auxin 2022: Cavtat, Croatia 2-7 October 2022

该奖项支持将于2022年10月在克罗地亚卡夫塔特举行的2022年生长素国际学者会议的选定美国参与者的旅费和注册费。该奖项包括应邀演讲的两名来自美国的早期职业女性教师的旅费，以及允许30名美国早期职业科学家参加会议的注册费，其中包括学生、博士后研究员、教师和在科学领域代表不足的团体的成员。会议重点讨论了植物激素生长素研究的最新进展和未来方向。植物是从种子中“诞生”或萌发的，只有一个简单的身体规划。最初，幼嫩的植物由一组幼叶和一个简单的根组成。从这个简单的幼苗，环境的暗示(阳光在哪里？土壤养分在哪里？现在是什么季节？)塑造新器官的生长，如树枝、树叶和花。这是如何发生的还不完全清楚，但众所周知，生长素几乎是植物生长和发育的各个方面的重要调节因子。生长素领域是植物生物学中最活跃和发展最快的领域之一，该领域的新发现正在为开发新的作物和解决粮食不安全问题做出贡献。为了鼓励在该领域工作的研究人员之间的互动和合作，该奖项促进了美国科学家参加在克罗地亚举行的生长素2022会议，他们将在会上接触到新的发现，与国际同事互动，并成为新合作的一部分。四年一度的生长素会议于2022年10月在克罗地亚卡夫塔特举行，旨在促进国际科学家之间的思想交流、未来研究方向的确立和合作关系的发展，这些科学家研究植物激素生长素如何调节植物生长和发育的多个方面。这次会议也为早期职业研究人员、实习生和来自代表性不足群体的个人提供了一个与该领域的领导者互动并加入国际生长素社区的机会。来自13个国家的30多名顶尖科学家同意在会议上分享他们的最新成果。被邀请的演讲者名单包括12名女性和8名初级科学家。该奖项将支持其中两名受邀演讲者的旅费和另外30名个人的会议登记。为了促进有关生长素的新发现的传播，受邀的演讲者将准备总结该领域新方向的论文，这些论文将发表在《实验生物学杂志》的特刊上，生长素领域的概述将提交给《植物细胞》杂志。该奖项由植物基因组研究计划和综合组织系统生物部的生理机制和生物力学计划共同资助。该奖项反映了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。

This award supports travel and registration fees for selected US participants in the Auxin 2022 meeting of international scholars in Cavtat, Croatia, in October 2022. The award covers travel expenses for two early-career female faculty from the US who are invited speakers, and meeting registration fees to allow 30 American early-career scientists, including students, post-doctoral fellows, faculty, and members of groups under-represented in science, to participate in the meeting. The meeting focuses on recent advances and future directions in the study of the plant hormone auxin. Plants are “born,” or germinate from a seed, with a simple body plan. Initially, young plants consist of a set of young leaves and a simple root. From this simple seedling, cues from the environment (Where is the sunlight? Where are the soil nutrients? What season is it?) shape the growth of new organs, such as branches, leaves, and flowers. How this happens is not yet fully understand, but it is known that auxin is an essential regulator of almost every aspect of plant growth and development. The auxin field is one of the most active and rapidly developing areas in plant biology, and new discoveries in this field are contributing to the development of new crops and solutions to food insecurity. To encourage interaction and collaboration among researchers working in the field, this award facilitates inclusion of US scientists in the Auxin 2022 meeting in Croatia, where they will be exposed to new discoveries, interact with international colleagues, and become part of new collaborations. The quadrennial Auxin Meeting, held in October 2022 in Cavtat, Croatia, seeks to promote the exchange of ideas, establishment of future research directions, and development of collaborative relationships among international scientists who study multiple aspects of how the plant hormone auxin regulates plant growth and development. The meeting also represents an opportunity for early-career investigators, trainees, and individuals from underrepresented groups to interact with leaders in the field and to join the international auxin community. More than 30 leading scientists from thirteen countries have agreed to share their latest results at the meeting. The list of invited speakers includes twelve women and eight junior scientists. The award will support travel for two of these invited speakers and meeting registration for 30 additional individuals. To promote dissemination of new discoveries on auxin, invited speakers will prepare papers summarizing new directions in the field that will be published in a special issue of The Journal of Experimental Biology, and an overview of the auxin field will be submitted to the journal, Plant Cell. The award is co-funded by the Plant Genome Research Program and the Physiological Mechanisms and Biomechanics Program in the BIO 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.