RaMP: Making meaningful connections: Fostering the Integration of Biodiversity Patterns with Genetic Evolutionary Mechanisms (BioGEM)

RaMP：建立有意义的联系：促进生物多样性模式与遗传进化机制的整合 (BioGEM)

• 批准号: 2319820
• 负责人: Paulyn Cartwright
• 金额: $ 298.64万
• 依托单位: University of Kansas Center for Research Inc
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-08-01 至 2027-07-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2319820&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RaMP; Making; meaningful; connections; Fostering

Given the severity and complexity that a rapidly changing climate imposes on all life on Earth, a multi-faceted approach to addressing the biodiversity crisis is needed. This project brings together a group of mentors with diverse expertise, ranging from genomics to paleontology, in order to train postbaccalaureate scholars in integrative and interdisciplinary organismal biology research. Scholars and their mentors will engage in research that spans time scales, biological hierarchies, and organisms across the tree of life, to address specific questions regarding past, present, and future organismal responses to a changing environment. Three cohorts of ten postbaccalaureate scholars each will be recruited to broaden participation in the sciences. Network partners include a local tribal college, regional primarily undergraduate institutions, a biomedical research institute, and a non-profit organization that interfaces with industry. In bringing together a diverse group of mentors, network partners, and postbaccalaureate scholars to engage in interdisciplinary research, this project will provide extensive training that diversifies the workforce in integrative organismal biology, while leading to important discoveries that help better understand and predict biological responses to a changing climate.This program centers on integrating Biodiversity science and Genetic Evolutionary Mechanisms (BioGEM) to investigate biological responses to climate change. BioGEM postbaccalaureate scholars will be primarily based at the University of Kansas (KU) and utilize KU’s world-class facilities and museum collections to conduct research that incorporates the network’s expertise in biodiversity science (phylogenetics, paleontology, morphometrics, biogeography, and community ecology) and genetic evolutionary mechanisms (comparative and functional genomics, developmental biology, and quantitative genetics). Specifically, studying speciation/extinction/persistence, paleobiogeography, and morphological disparity and innovation will allow us to address how organisms, species, and clades were shaped by their past environment; studying population dynamics, ecological interactions, and biogeographic patterns will allow us to address how organisms, populations, and species respond to their present biotic and abiotic environment; and studying plasticity, genomic responses to adaptation, and mechanisms of genetic diversity will allow us to address how genetic mechanisms equip organisms to respond to future environmental change. A key component of the BioGEM program experience is a weekly Professional & Scholarly Advancement series, involving the mentors and network partners, that will include both professional development workshops and hands-on mentor-led training modules covering a wide range of research methods. The BioGEM program is geared towards recent graduates that have had limited or no prior research experience.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.

鉴于快速变化的气候给地球上所有生命带来的严重性和复杂性，需要采取多方面的方法来解决生物多样性危机，该项目汇集了一组具有从基因组学到古生物学等不同专业知识的导师。培养综合和跨学科有机生物学研究的学士后学者，学者和他们的导师将从事跨越时间尺度、生物层次和整个生命树的有机体的研究，以解决有关过去、现在和未来的具体问题。目前和未来对不断变化的环境的生物反应将被招募三批，每批十名学士后学者，以扩大对科学的参与。该项目将汇集不同的导师、网络合作伙伴和学士后学者参与跨学科研究，提供广泛的培训，使综合生物生物学的劳动力多样化，同时领先。有助于更好地理解和预测生物对气候变化的反应的重要发现。该项目的重点是整合生物多样性科学和遗传进化机制（BioGEM），以研究生物对气候变化的反应。 BioGEM 学士后学者将主要以堪萨斯大学为基地。 (KU) 并利用 KU 的世界一流设施和博物馆藏品进行研究，融合该网络在生物多样性科学（系统发育学、古生物学、形态计量学、具体来说，研究物种形成/灭绝/持久性、古生物地理学以及形态差异和创新将使我们能够解决生物体、物种和进化枝是如何受到其过去环境的影响；研究种群动态、生态相互作用和生物地理模式将使我们能够解决生物体、种群和物种如何应对其当前的生物和非生物环境并进行研究；可塑性、基因组对适应的反应以及遗传多样性的机制将使我们能够解决遗传机制如何使生物体应对未来环境变化的问题。 BioGEM 计划面向先前研究经验有限或没有研究经验的应届毕业生。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定奖项。使命并被认为是值得的通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来获得支持。