Island Population Responses to Environmental Stresses

岛屿人口对环境压力的反应

• 批准号: 2131647
• 负责人: Shu-Ching Chen
• 金额: $ 3.5万
• 依托单位: Florida International University
• 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: 2021-08-01 至 2022-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2131647&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Island; Population; Responses; Environmental; Stresses

Large and unpredictable stressors like new diseases are impacting practically all species with increasing frequency and strength. Understanding how species respond often relies on studies of genetics. Islands are a good place to study such responses because a large fraction of resident species are usually impacted. The COVID pandemic has disrupted the ability of many students – especially those from underrepresented groups -- to get the training and mentoring they need to study genetic responses to stressors. This workshop will help fix that problem by providing students from Puerto Rico and southern Florida with cutting edge skills for analyzing and interpreting genetic data that they may find challenging.The workshop will help ensure the continued academic progress of participants from STEM underrepresented communities by engaging them in research activities that can be undertaken when most laboratory and fieldwork is limited. Workshop participants will acquire skills to analyze gene expression data from their independent research projects on response of organisms across the span of biological diversity to biotic and abiotic stressors. A high degree of “hands-on” virtual interaction between participants and instructors will be used as a platform. This will be followed with email and chat group communications and coupled with posted recorded sessions and associated supporting instructional materials. Results are likely to yield new insights about how organisms adapt to new environmental challenges.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.

像新疾病这样的巨大且不可预测的压力源正在以越来越频繁和强度的方式影响着几乎所有物种。了解物种的反应通常依赖于遗传学研究，因为很大一部分居民物种通常都会受到影响。新冠疫情大流行扰乱了许多学生（尤其是来自代表性不足群体的学生）获得研究压力源遗传反应所需的培训和指导的能力。本次研讨会将通过为波多黎各和佛罗里达州南部的学生提供切割服务来帮助解决这个问题。分析和解释遗传的边缘技能该研讨会将帮助来自 STEM 代表性不足的社区的参与者参与在大多数实验室和实地工作有限的情况下可以开展的研究活动，从而帮助他们确保持续的学术进步。研讨会参与者将获得分析基因表达数据的技能。来自他们关于跨生物多样性的生物体对生物和非生物应激源的反应的独立研究项目将使用参与者和讲师之间的高度“实践”虚拟互动平台。聊天群通讯并附上贴文记录会议和相关的支持教学材料的结果可能会产生关于生物体如何适应新的环境挑战的新见解。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

项目成果

Genomic regions influencing aggressive behavior in honey bees are defined by colony allele frequencies

• DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1922927117
• 发表时间: 2020-07-21
• 期刊: PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
• 影响因子: 11.1
• 作者: Avalos, Arian;Fang, Miaoquan;Hudson, Matthew E.
• 通讯作者: Hudson, Matthew E.

The Role of Colony Temperature in the Entrainment of Circadian Rhythms of Honey Bee Foragers

• DOI: 10.1093/aesa/saab021
• 发表时间: 2021-05-26
• 期刊: ANNALS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA
• 影响因子: 2.3
• 作者: Giannoni-Guzman, Manuel A.;Rivera-Rodriguez, Emmanuel J.;Agosto-Rivera, Jose L.
• 通讯作者: Agosto-Rivera, Jose L.