NRT‐URoL: BRIDGES ‐ Building Resources for InterDisciplinary training in Genomic and Ecosystem Sciences

NRT – URoL：桥梁 – 为基因组和生态系统科学跨学科培训构建资源

• 批准号: 2022055
• 负责人: Scott Saleska
• 金额: $ 299.99万
• 依托单位: University of Arizona
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-09-01 至 2025-08-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2022055&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NRT; URoL; BRIDGES; Building; Resources

The new science of ecosystem genomics integrates the large-scale science of how ecosystems work with the small-scale science of how genes and genomes of organisms interact with their environments. Ecosystem genomics promises new knowledge to sustain the biological systems that support, interact with, and are disrupted by human society, such as the agroecosystems that supply food to the world -- and, more generally, the plants, microbes, and insects that shape local, regional, and global cycles of energy, water, and carbon in both natural and managed ecosystems. The challenge that limits fulfillment of the promise of ecosystem genomics is transdisciplinary integration: fundamentally, an education and training challenge. This National Science Foundation Research Traineeship (NRT) award to the University of Arizona will address this challenge by training a diverse cadre of scientists to catalyze innovation across biological scales and science disciplines. This project will diversify and improve inclusion in science and technology fields, key to enhancing intellectual strength and fostering transdisciplinarity. The project anticipates training an intellectually and culturally diverse group of 40 MS and PhD students, including 20 NRT-funded trainees. Trainees will be recruited from a broad range of disciplines, including genomics, data science, ecosystem and environmental science, hydrology and atmospheric sciences, ecology, and plant-, insect-, and microbial biology.The BRIDGES project will implement a training program that combines (1) an interdisciplinary curriculum and a new graduate minor; (2) novel, social science-based “Cultures of Science” training (integrated into the natural science training program), based on the insight that truly transdisciplinary research is not just a technical challenge, but also one of bridging cultural differences between disciplines; (3) team-based research experiences focusing on topics such as enhancing crop resistance to drought in the southwest US (with industry partnership); integrative microbiome science, data analytics, and genomics (with a US start-up company); engagement with biomes from desert to rainforest (at UA’s Biosphere 2); leveraging multi-omics technologies (with a world-leading U.S. government research laboratory); and global challenges in the Philippines (advancing sustainable rice production) and France (testing evolution-ecology theories with precision ecosystem experiments at the world-class Ecotron facility); (4) teaching and outreach experiences including at minority-serving high schools, (5) professional development training, and (6) an Annual Institute in Ecosystem Genomics Convergence, an opportunity for NRT trainees to advance proposals, share results of team-based research experiences, and participate in interactive workshops for professional development and training in inclusivity, pedagogy, science communication, and the practice of science. Results and successful practices will be broadly disseminated to the education community as the program diversifies and implements best practices for inclusion in STEM while fostering a new generation of transdisciplinary scientists in ecosystem genomics.The NSF Research Traineeship (NRT) Program is designed to encourage the development and implementation of bold, new potentially transformative models for STEM graduate education training. The program is dedicated to effective training of STEM graduate students in high priority interdisciplinary or convergent research areas through comprehensive traineeship models that are innovative, evidence-based, and aligned with changing workforce and research needs.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.

生态系统基因组学的新科学结合了生态系统如何与生物学如何与环境相互作用的小规模科学发挥作用的大规模科学。生态系统基因组学有望维持支持，与人类社会相互作用并破坏的生物系统，例如为世界提供食物的农业生态系统 - 以及更一般而言的植物，微生物以及塑造本地，区域，地区和全球能量，水，水和碳的植物，区域，自然和碳循环。限制生态系统基因组学承诺的挑战是跨学科的融合：从根本上讲，教育和培训挑战。这项国家科学基金会的研究训练（NRT）授予亚利桑那大学将通过培训科学家的多样性干部来解决这一挑战，以促进跨生物规模和科学学科的创新。该项目将使科学和技术领域的包容性多样化，这是增强智力实力和促进跨学科性的关键。该项目预计将培训一个由40名MS和博士学位学生组成的智力和文化多样化的小组，其中包括20名NRT资助的学员。学员将从广泛的学科中招募，包括基因组学，数据科学，生态系统和环境科学，水文和大气科学，生态学和植物，绝缘材料和微生物生物学。 （2）基于社会科学的新颖，基于社会科学的“科学文化”培训（集成到自然科学培训计划中），基于洞察力，即真正的跨学科研究不仅是技术挑战，而且是弥合学科之间的文化差异之一； （3）基于团队的研究经验，重点是诸如增强美国西南部干旱的作物抵抗（与行业合作伙伴关系）之类的主题；集成的微生物组科学，数据分析和基因组学（与美国初创公司）；与从沙漠到雨林的生物群落的互动（在UA的生物圈2上）；利用多派技术（具有世界领先的美国政府研究实验室）；以及菲律宾的全球挑战（推进了可持续的大米生产）和法国（通过世界一流的生态系统实验在世界一流的生态系统实验中测试进化生物学理论）； （4）教学和外展经验，包括在少数族裔服务中学，（5）专业发展培训，以及（6）生态系统基因组学的年度研究所，这是NRT学员有机会推进建议，共享基于团队的研究经验的成绩，并参与互动式研讨会，以在互动式研讨会上进行专业开发和培训，以进行专业发展和培训，以培训和培训，包括跨性别，教学，科学，科学，科学，科学和科学。随着该计划的多样化和实现STEM中的最佳实践，结果和成功实践将大致传播到教育社区，同时培养新一代的跨学科科学家在生态系统基因组学中。NSF研究训练（NRT）计划旨在鼓励对STEM毕业培训进行大胆的，大胆的潜在变革性变革模型的开发和实施。该计划致力于通过全面的跨学科或收敛性研究领域的STEM研究生进行有效培训，通过全面的培训模型，这些模型具有创新，基于循证的，并且与不断变化的劳动力和研究需求保持一致。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识优点和广泛的影响来评估NSF的法定任务，并被认为是宝贵的支持。