RCN: Integrating Organismal Biology into NEON

RCN：将生物生物学融入 NEON

• 批准号: 2110233
• 负责人: Ben Dantzer
• 金额: $ 50万
• 依托单位: Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-07-01 至 2026-06-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2110233&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RCN; Integrating; Organismal; Biology; into

A central goal in the life sciences is understanding how organisms will cope with environmental change. This project funds a Research Coordination Network (RCN) that bring will together a diverse group of biologists to identify how to best leverage NEON data and infrastructure to address pressing questions about how organisms will cope with environmental change. The National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) and its associated infrastructure represents one of the largest infrastructure investments by the National Science Foundation. NEON serves as an observatory to document ecosystem change through 30 years of consistent data collection at a series research sites across the United States. The RCN will develop a professional network whose members are diverse in background, expertise, and career stage, host workshops and symposia that focus on the potential of NEON to answer key questions in organismal biology and provide training experiences for the next generation of researchers through research exchanges. As a whole, the RCN will broaden participation of under-represented groups across career stages, develop podcast episodes to enhance scientific and technological understanding of concepts related to NEON, and generate new participatory science activities for the general public. Finally, this RCN will enable research that have direct relevance to human health and the US economy, such as knowledge of the presence and drivers of disease, their spread through animal populations, and how environmental change may exacerbate these threats.NEON presents a unique opportunity to produce novel insights into fundamental biological questions, yet there are currently disparities in use of NEON by researchers from different fields of biology. Ecologists have taken the lead with using NEON data to investigate the responses of populations, communities, and ecosystems to environmental change. However, the potential of NEON and its associated infrastructure have not been fully realized by organismal biologists. This missed opportunity is despite the fact that NEON is well-suited for answering some major questions in organismal biology. Organismal biologists use diverse and integrative approaches to understand variation in the behavior, physiology, and life histories of organisms and how these multiple traits interact across environmental gradients and produce population differentiation. Through the use of NEON, there is great potential for organismal biologists to help reveal how genotypes become phenotypes and discover new patterns at spatiotemporal scales that have not previously been possible. Organismal biology research using NEON resources has lagged behind because of a lack of awareness by researchers of NEON’s goals, infrastructure, and capacity. This RCN will diversify and strengthen NEON usage by incorporating organismal biologists into the community of NEON users and by promoting interactions between ecologists and organismal biologists.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.

生命科学的一个核心目标是了解组织将如何应对环境变化。该项目资助了一个研究协调网络（RCN），该网络将召集一群生物学家群体，以确定如何最好地利用霓虹灯数据和基础架构来解决有关组织将如何应对环境变化的紧迫问题。国家生态观测网络（NEON）及其相关的基础设施代表了国家科学基金会最大的基础设施投资之一。霓虹灯是在美国各地的系列研究地点进行30年一致的数据收集，以记录生态系统变化的观察。 RCN将开发一个专业的网络，其成员是潜水员，专家和职业阶段，主持人研讨会和研讨会，该网络专注于霓虹灯回答有机生物学中的关键问题的潜力，并通过研究交流为下一代研究人员提供培训经验。总体而言，RCN将在职业阶段扩大代表性不足的群体的参与，开发播客情节，以增强对与霓虹灯相关的概念的科学和技术理解，并为公众提供新的参与科学活动。最后，这种RCN将启用与人类健康和美国经济有直接相关的研究，例如了解疾病的存在和驱动因素，通过动物种群传播以及环境变化如何加剧这些威胁。Neon提供了一个独特的机会，可以使基本生物学问题产生新颖的洞察力，但目前在研究中遇到了来自不同领域的Neon在不同领域中使用不同领域的纽约偏见。生态学家使用霓虹灯数据来研究人群，社区和生态系统对环境变化的反应。但是，有机生物学家尚未完全实现霓虹灯及其相关基础设施的潜力。这个错过的机会是一个事实，即霓虹灯非常适合回答有机生物学上的一些主要问题。生物体使用潜水员和综合方法来了解生物的行为，生理和生命史的变化，以及这些多种特征如何在环境梯度之间相互作用并产生种群分化。通过使用霓虹灯，有机体生物学家有很大的潜力有助于揭示基因型如何成为表型，并在以前尚未实现的空间时间尺度上发现新模式。由于研究人员对霓虹灯的目标，基础设施和能力缺乏认识，使用霓虹灯资源的生物学研究落后了。该RCN将通过将组织生物学家纳入霓虹灯用户社区，并促进生态学家与生物生物学家之间的互动来使霓虹灯多样化和加强。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响审查标准来通过评估来通过评估来支持的。