2015 Ecological and Evolutionary Genomics Conference: Using Biodiversity to Explore Biocomplexity; University of New England, Biddeford, ME; July 12-17, 2015

2015生态与进化基因组学会议：利用生物多样性探索生物复杂性；

• 批准号: 1541937
• 负责人: Michael Herman
• 金额: $ 3.18万
• 依托单位: Gordon Research Conferences
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-05-15 至 2016-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1541937&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: 2015; Ecological; Evolutionary; Genomics; Conference

How organisms and ecosystems respond to changing environments remains an important question of basic and applied research. This award will provide travel support for students and faculty to the 2015 Ecological and Evolutionary Genomics Gordon Research Conference (EEG GRC). EEG is a new but growing field with central importance to major scientific questions and emerging problems facing humanity. EEG brings together disparate disciplines and utilizes biological diversity to understand complex processes. The EEG GRC is the premiere meeting of this field, and brings together leaders, rising stars, postdocs, and graduate students in an intimate highly interactive environment, which is a hallmark of GRC meetings. The theme of this meeting is "Using Biodiversity to Explore Biocomplexity", which emphasizes how genome science is being expanded from traditional "model" species to encompass biologically diverse organisms, and how this can be used to advance our understanding of the complicated relationships between organisms and the environment. A major goal of this work is to broaden participation at the EEG GRC. This will be achieved through recruitment of students and faculty from groups usually underrepresented in science, providing registration and travel costs for ten individuals that will increase diversity among the participants. In addition to broadening participation, the proposal will fund travel and registration costs for speakers presenting advances in computational and genomic approaches to previously not well-studied organisms and ecosystems, and funds for students and young investigators who are driving this research. Results from this EEG GRC will advance a better understanding of the relationships between biodiversity and biocomplexity, and will impact society by increasing the understanding of how organisms adapt to changing environments.The intellectual merit of the EEG GRC is to address the unique computational challenges presented by the genomic analyses of diverse organisms requiring the development of new tools, databases and algorithms to help the understanding of biodiversity. Funds will be used to cover the travel costs for seven speakers in two symposia, "Advances in Computational and Genomic Approaches in Non-Model Organisms", and "Networks: From Genes to Ecosystems", and support for four individuals to be selected from submitted abstracts in the "Young Investigators: Advances in Ecological and Evolutionary Genomics" symposium. The broader impacts include the major goal of facilitating efforts to broaden participation at the EEG GRC. This will be achieved through recruitment efforts using a variety of mechanisms that will seek to bring the EEG GRC to the attention of students and faculty from groups underrepresented in science and provide registration and travel costs for ten of these individuals. Funds will also be used to support the participation of two outstanding High School educators with records in science outreach and curriculum development who can bring this cutting edge research to the high school classroom.

生物和生态系统如何对不断变化的环境做出反应仍然是基本和应用研究的重要问题。该奖项将为2015年生态和进化基因组学研究会议（EEG GRC）的学生和教职员工提供旅行支持。 脑电图是一个新的但增长的领域，对人类面临的重大科学问题和新兴问题具有至关重要的重要性。脑电图汇集了不同的学科，并利用生物学多样性来理解复杂的过程。 EEG GRC是该领域的首映会议，在私密的高度互动环境中汇集了领导者，新星，博士后和研究生，这是GRC会议的标志。这次会议的主题是“利用生物多样性来探索生物复杂性”，这强调了基因组科学如何从传统的“模型”物种扩展到涵盖生物学上多样化的生物，以及如何将其用于促进我们对生物体与环境之间复杂关系的理解。这项工作的主要目标是扩大在EEG GRC的参与。这将通过通常在科学领域不足的团体中招募学生和教职员工来实现这一目标，为十个将增加参与者多样性的人提供注册和旅行费用。除了扩大参与度外，该提案还将为演讲者提供旅行和注册费用，以介绍计算和基因组方法的进步，以对以前研究的生物和生态系统进行进展，并为正在推动这项研究的学生和年轻调查人员提供资金。 Results from this EEG GRC will advance a better understanding of the relationships between biodiversity and biocomplexity, and will impact society by increasing the understanding of how organisms adapt to changing environments.The intellectual merit of the EEG GRC is to address the unique computational challenges presented by the genomic analyses of diverse organisms requiring the development of new tools, databases and algorithms to help the understanding of biodiversity.资金将用于支付两次研讨会的七个演讲者的旅行费用，“非模型生物的计算和基因组方法的进步”和“网络：从基因到生态系统”，以及从“年轻研究者中提交的摘要：生态和进化属性的进步”中选择的四个人。更广泛的影响包括促进在EEG GRC上进行参与的努力的主要目标。这将通过招聘工作来实现，这些机制将寻求将脑电图GRC引起学生和教师的注意，从科学领域的人数不足，为十个人提供注册和旅行费用。资金还将用于支持两位杰出的高中教育者的参与，并通过科学外展和课程开发记录，他们可以将这项尖端研究带入高中教室。