Recipient Organization
COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY
(N/A)
FORT COLLINS,CO 80523
Performing Department
BIOAGRICULTURAL SCIENCES & PEST MANAGEMENT
Non Technical Summary
Rice is the most important food crop in the world and an important experimental system for research in fundamental plant biology. Recently, the genome sequence of rice was completed, and many essential, publicly available genomic and genetic tools have been developed. Rapid progress is now being made towards understanding the functions of the rice genes in regulatory networks and evolutionary selection controlling such complex traits as yield, biotic and abiotic stresses, reproductive barriers, epigenetics and flowering time. The results of these findings will be presented at the 5th International Rice Genetics Symposium and the 3rd International Rice Functional Genomics Symposium which will be held from November 19-23, 2005 at the Shangri-La Hotel EDSA Plaza, Manila, Philippines. To enable progress made by US scientists to be presented at this meeting, funds are requested for travel and living expenses for three US invited speakers to participate in the meeting. In
addition, to promote the next generation of US rice biologists, funds are requested for travel for three graduate students/post doctoral fellows to attend and present their work as posters at this meeting. The students/post docs will be selected by a competition. The meeting will provide an excellent opportunity to learn about the latest developments in structural, functional and evolutionary genomics and genetics research, facilitate international collaborations in rice research, and promote advances in rice research made in the US. Speakers will submit chapters to a book of the proceedings of the meeting.
Animal Health Component
50%
Research Effort Categories
Basic
50%
Applied
50%
Developmental
(N/A)
Goals / Objectives
To provide travel support for US rice research scientists to attend the 5th International Rice Genetics Symposium and the 3rd International Rice Functional Genomics Symposium, November 19-23, 2005, in Manila, Philippines. Funds are requested for at least three invited symposium speakers and three students or postdocs to participate in the conference.
Project Methods
Funds will be used to support three invited speakers from the USA. Those speakers will be selected from a group of 17 invited by the international organizing committee. Criterion for selection of the speakers will emphasize diversity, including women, minorities, and persons with disabilities as well as geographic diversity. Speakers are expected to provide a chapter for publication that is based on their presentation. Three students and postdocs will be selected for travel awards by a competition that will be advertised widely on the web. The selection committee will select awardees based on quality and relevance of science in a submitted abstract, likelihood of career benefit from the meetings, and geographic diversity and membership in an under-represented group.