2011 Waterman Award

2011年沃特曼奖

• 批准号: 1136868
• 负责人: Casey Dunn
• 金额: $ 50万
• 依托单位: Brown University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-08-01 至 2014-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1136868&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: 2011; Waterman; Award

The National Science Foundation (NSF) is proud to announce the selection of Brown University's Casey Dunn, an assistant professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, to receive its 2011 Alan T. Waterman Award. Dunn, an evolutionary biologist, works on the evolution, development, and diversity of life, focusing primarily on the use of phylogenetic tools to understand the links between genes, developmental mechanisms, form, function, and evolution. The annual Waterman award recognizes an outstanding young researcher in any field of science or engineering supported by NSF. Candidates may not be more than 35 years old, or seven years beyond receiving a doctorate, and must stand out for their individual achievements. In addition to a medal, the awardee receives a grant of $500,000 over a 3-year period for scientific research or advanced study in their field. Dunn is a brilliant evolutionary biologist, and is most well known for his work on functional specialization in biological systems (particularly colonial organisms) and studies of animal relationships. He has made many unexpected and original contributions to phylogenetics and evolutionary developmental biology, including the description of complex colony-level development in siphonophores. His research with poorly known organisms is made possible by integrating field and laboratory research with novel computational tools to address classical questions. Dunn has a long relationship with NSF, and an even longer history receiving awards. He received a NSF graduate research fellowship and a doctoral dissertation improvement grant, as well as fellowships from Pop Tech Science and Public Leadership, and Kavli Frontiers of Science. With colleagues at Harvard, University of Kansas, and the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, he is part of a large grant project from NSF's Assembling the Tree of Life program, under which researchers are seeking to reconstruct, with phylogenomic tools, the history of the animal tree of life. His first book, Practical Computing for Biologists, was published last year.

国家科学基金会（NSF）自豪地宣布，生态与进化生物学系助理教授布朗大学的凯西·邓恩（Casey Dunn）获得了2011年的艾伦·T·沃特曼奖。进化生物学家邓恩（Dunn）致力于生命的进化，发展和多样性，主要关注系统发育工具来理解基因，发育机制，形式，功能和进化之间的联系。 年度沃特曼奖（Waterman Award）认可了NSF支持的任何科学或工程领域的杰出年轻研究员。候选人的年龄可能不超过35岁，或者除了获得博士学位的七年外，必须脱颖而出。除了获得奖牌外，该获奖者还在3年的科学研究或高级研究中获得了500,000美元的赠款。邓恩（Dunn）是一位出色的进化生物学家，以生物系统（尤其是殖民地生物）和动物关系的研究方面的功能专业化而闻名。他对系统发育学和进化发育生物学做出了许多意想不到的和原始的贡献，包括描述虹吸管中复杂菌落水平的发展。通过将现场和实验室研究与新的计算工具相结合以解决经典问题，他对他对知名生物的研究成为可能。 Dunn与NSF有很长的关系，并获得了更长的历史获得奖项。他获得了NSF研究生研究奖学金和博士学位论文的改进赠款，以及流行技术科学和公共领导力的奖学金以及科学的Kavli Frontiers。在哈佛大学，堪萨斯大学和蒙特雷湾水族馆研究所的同事们，他是NSF组装《生命之树计划》的大型赠款项目的一部分，根据该计划，研究人员正在寻求使用系统基因组工具，生命树的历史来重建。他的第一本书《生物学家实用计算》于去年出版。