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将生态系统如何运作的大规模科学与生物体的基因和基因组如何与其环境相互作用的小规模科学结合起来，生态系统基因组学有望提供新的知识来维持支持、相互作用的生物系统。并受到人类社会的破坏，例如向世界提供食物的农业生态系统，更广泛地说，是影响当地、区域和全球能源、水和碳循环的植物、微生物和昆虫。并管理限制生态系统基因组学前景实现的挑战是跨学科整合：从根本上来说，亚利桑那大学的国家科学基金会研究实习（NRT）奖将通过培训多样化的骨干人员来应对这一挑战。该项目将促进科学技术领域的多元化和包容性，这是增强智力力量和促进跨学科性的关键。 40 名硕士和博士生，其中包括 20 名 NRT 资助的实习生，将来自多个学科，包括基因组学、数据科学、生态系统和环境科学、水文学和大气科学、生态学以及植物、昆虫和自然科学。 BRIDGES 项目将实施一项培训计划，该计划结合了 (1) 跨学科课程和新的研究生辅修课程；(2) 新颖的、基于社会科学的“科学文化”培训（整合到(3) 基于团队的研究经验，重点关注增强美国西南部作物的抗旱性（与综合微生物组科学、数据分析和基因组学（与一家美国初创公司合作））；从沙漠到雨林（在阿布扎比大学生物圈 2 号）； （与世界领先的美国政府研究实验室合作）；以及菲律宾（推进可持续水稻生产）和法国（在世界一流的 Ecotron 设施中通过精确的生态系统实验测试进化生态学理论）；外展经验，包括在少数族裔服务的高中，(5) 专业发展培训，以及 (6) 生态系统基因组学融合年度研究所，为 NRT 学员提供提出提案、分享团队研究经验成果和参与的机会互动研讨会随着该计划多样化并实施纳入 STEM 的最佳实践，同时培养新一代跨学科人才，其成果和成功实践将广泛传播给教育界。 NSF 研究实习 (NRT) 计划旨在鼓励为 STEM 研究生教育培训开发和实施大胆的、具有潜在变革性的新模型。该计划致力于有效培训 STEM 研究生。通过创新的、基于证据的、符合不断变化的劳动力和研究需求的综合培训模型，在高度优先的跨学科或融合研究领域中提供资助。该奖项是 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的评估进行评估，被认为值得支持。影响审查标准。