Travel Proposal: 5th International Symposium on Ranaviruses - Townsville, Australia James Cook University in Townsville, Australia from June 4 - 6, 2019

旅行建议：第五届蛙病毒国际研讨会 - 澳大利亚汤斯维尔詹姆斯库克大学，澳大利亚汤斯维尔，2019 年 6 月 4 日至 6 日

• 批准号: 1930591
• 负责人: Victor Chinchar
• 金额: $ 1万
• 依托单位: University of Mississippi Medical Center
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-05-15 至 2020-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1930591&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Travel; Proposal; 5th; International; Symposium

The purpose of this award is to support U.S. scientists to attend an international meeting about ranaviruses for their development as scientists. Ranavirus has triggered localized die-offs of amphibians. It also has the potential to drive endangered populations to extinction. Ranavirus infection is a worldwide problem. Thus, a solution requires expertise and collaboration with a wide variety of experts. The 5th International Symposium on Ranaviruses (5th ISR) brings scientists from North and South America, Europe, Asia, and Australia together to share research about ranavirus infections, host susceptibility to infection, immunity against infection, and improved diagnostic tests. NSF funds will support the participation of early stage investigators. This will provide an opportunity for US-based junior scientists to share their knowledge and to promote the progress of science (and NSF mission). This helps train the next generation of researchers, which is one of the missions of the NSF.This award supports travel of junior investigators to the 5th International Symposium on Ranaviruses (5th ISR). This meeting will address multiple issues related to ranaviruses and the diseases they cause. At the ecological level, the 5th ISR will address how to diagnosis, control, prevent, and (in a limited number of settings) treat ranavirus disease. At the population level, the meeting will identify potential host species, ascertain the basis for susceptibility, and develop models to better understand (and hopefully predict) the outcome of infection. Finally, identifying specific elements of the host immune response that correlate with protection from disease, and determining, at the molecular level, the basis for viral virulence, will provide insights into how ranaviruses trigger host die-offs and how the host combats infection. Collectively, the meeting will bring together ecologists, modelers, immunologists, pathologists, and molecular virologists to address this multi-faceted host-virus system. Because the problem of ranavirus-mediated disease is worldwide, any attempt at understanding the intricacies of this phenomenon require international collaboration. This meeting encourages active participation of young investigators. Thus, this NSF award provides an opportunity for early career scientists to establish themselves in the field and to provide their input for future directions in ranavirus research. The strength of the 5th ISR is that it creates genius by bringing together individuals with complementary talents to resolve an issue that each by themselves can only partially address.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.

该奖项的目的是支持美国科学家参加有关蛙病毒的国际会议，以促进他们作为科学家的发展。蛙病毒引发了两栖动物的局部死亡。 它还可能导致濒危物种灭绝。 蛙病毒感染是一个世界性问题。因此，解决方案需要专业知识以及与众多专家的协作。第五届蛙病毒国际研讨会（5th ISR）汇聚了来自北美、南美、欧洲、亚洲和澳大利亚的科学家，分享有关蛙病毒感染、宿主对感染的易感性、感染免疫力和改进的诊断测试的研究成果。 NSF 资金将支持早期研究人员的参与。 这将为美国的初级科学家提供一个分享知识并促进科学进步（和 NSF 使命）的机会。这有助于培训下一代研究人员，这是 NSF 的使命之一。该奖项支持初级研究人员参加第五届国际蛙病毒研讨会（第五届 ISR）的旅行。这次会议将讨论与蛙病毒及其引起的疾病相关的多个问题。 在生态层面，第五次ISR将解决如何诊断、控制、预防和（在有限的情况下）治疗蛙病毒病的问题。 在人群层面，会议将确定潜在的宿主物种，确定易感性的基础，并开发模型以更好地了解（并有望预测）感染的结果。 最后，确定与预防疾病相关的宿主免疫反应的特定要素，并在分子水平上确定病毒毒力的基础，将为了解蛙病毒如何引发宿主死亡以及宿主如何抵抗感染提供见解。 总的来说，这次会议将汇集生态学家、建模师、免疫学家、病理学家和分子病毒学家，以解决这个多方面的宿主病毒系统。 由于蛙病毒介导的疾病问题是世界性的，因此任何理解这一现象错综复杂的尝试都需要国际合作。 本次会议鼓励年轻研究者的积极参与。因此，该 NSF 奖项为早期职业科学家提供了一个在该领域立足并为蛙病毒研究的未来方向提供投入的机会。第五届 ISR 的优势在于，它通过将具有互补才能的个人聚集在一起来解决每个人只能部分解决的问题来创造天才。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力评估进行评估，认为值得支持。优点和更广泛的影响审查标准。