CSBR:Continued Support of the Duke Lemur Center for the Study of Primate Biology and History

CSBR：杜克狐猴灵长类生物学和历史研究中心的持续支持

• 批准号: 2012668
• 负责人: Erin Ehmke
• 金额: $ 90.88万
• 依托单位: Duke University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-09-15 至 2023-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2012668&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CSBR; Continued; Support; Duke; Lemur

This award will provide support to the Duke Lemur Center (DLC), a unique living stock collection of the world's most endangered and biologically diverse primates - the lemurs of Madagascar. Lemurs are exclusive to the biodiversity hotspot of Madagascar, and due to their critically-endangered status, are not a renewable resource. Serving as a living laboratory for advancing interdisciplinary research, scholarship, and conservation, the DLC is the only place in the world where lemurs are readily available for comparative study together with associated biological samples, decades of medical records, life history data, and fossil relatives of living taxa. The diversity of the colony enables an expansive scope of science to be conducted and communicated, covering disciplines ranging from behavioral ecology, cognition, sensory communication, biomechanics, anatomy, life-history strategy, metagenomics, phylogenomics, population genetics, metabolomics, and more. In addition, the DLC is an exceptional training ground for students across academic levels. Over its 54-year history, thousands of students ranging from K-12 through postgraduate levels have been engaged in and inspired by their experiences at the DLC. The veterinary department supports educational activities via work-study opportunities and veterinary student training, including an internship for Malagasy veterinarians. Critically, the DLC is committed to conservation activities via both ex situ captive management and extensive community-based Madagascar programs. Hundreds of thousands of visitors from the general public have been exposed to the concepts of biodiversity discovery and conservation, as well as the power of biological research via their exposure to the DLC's staff, students, and collections. The overarching aim of this award is to strategically enhance the value of the DLC’s living collection through eight short-term goals that will provide significant opportunities to generate additional research and build multi-disciplinary collaborations, increase the digital availability of data from living stocks, biological tissues, and natural history collections, and increase education outreach and veterinary training activities. The first five goals directly facilitate and enhance ongoing and planned research to identify species (in particular genomic and paleontological data), understand organismal systems (in particular biomechanics, endocrinology, physiology, microbial ecology, behavior, and metabolics – including torpor), and more broadly, to understand evolutionary patterns and the links across biological scales between genotypes and phenotypes. The remaining goals facilitate outreach and education activities so that the significance of the research will be communicated to a broad audience. Colony support is central to meeting these goals for advancing key programs in biological research, education, and conservation.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.

该奖项将为马达加斯加的狐猴提供支持，这是马达加斯加的生物多样性热点，如马达加斯加濒危地位一样在相关的生物样品，生命史数据和化石的亲戚中，弯曲可用于比较研究。感官交流，生物力学，解剖学，生活历史策略，宏基因组学，系统基因组学，人口遗传学，代谢组学等等，DLC是Anexceptiong学生在其54年历史上的学术水平。研究生级别受到了DLC的经验，并受到兽医的经验。来自公众的成千上万的访客已经接触到生物多样性和保护的概念，以及通过DLC的员工，学生和收藏品的生物研究的力量。通过八个期限的生活收集，以产生tosearch并建立多学科的合作，生物组织，生物组织和NATURATANE HISTARE COLLECTIONS，并增加教育和兽医培训活动。内分泌，生理学，微生物生态学，行为和代谢（包括Torpor），更广泛地了解基因型和表型之间的CAL量表的进化模式以及剩余的目标外展和教育之间的联系。对广泛的观众，Ward反映了NSF值得通过评估的支持，会影响审查标准。