BIOCOMPLEXITY--INCUBATION ACTIVITY: Evolutionary and Ecological Functional Genomics: Jumpstarting a Multidisciplinary Field

生物复杂性——孵化活动：进化和生态功能基因组学：启动多学科领域

• 批准号: 0083375
• 负责人: Martin Feder
• 金额: $ 10万
• 依托单位: University of Chicago
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2000
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2000-10-01 至 2003-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0083375&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: BIOCOMPLEXITY; INCUBATION; ACTIVITY; Evolutionary; Ecological

The major issues to be addressed by the life scientists of the 21st Century willrequire both the admixture of life science disciplines that have traditionally been separateand the inclusion of disciplines that have traditionally fallen outside the life sciences.Achieving these goals is largely a matter of social engineering: getting isolated scientiststo interact with one another, shifting the training of pre-and post-doctoral students froman oligodisciplinary to a multidisciplinary mode,instituting mechanisms for the sharingof scientific resources, forming interactive scientific communities around major topics orproblems,and so on. For some key communities, this social engineering is already wellunderway,but for others it is not. For this reason we propose a series of 'incubationactivities' for a potential community we will name 'evolutionary and ecological functionalgenomics'(EEFG). The proposed incubation activities have two main goals:1. Physical coalescence of this potential community2. Strategic planning by this community,which will identify its scientific,programmatic, and educational goals; and formulate workable structures for achievingongoing interaction and attaining these goals.The two goals of the incubation activities would be achieved first by aplanning/organizational meeting to be held at the National Science Foundation, and thenby a series of outreach meetings that would be embedded in the annual meetings ofexisting scientific societies on an international scale.

世纪的生命科学家所要解决的主要问题，既需要传统上独立的生命科学学科的混合，也需要传统上不属于生命科学的学科的纳入。实现这些目标在很大程度上是一个社会工程问题：使孤立的科学家相互交流，使博士生和博士后的培养从单一学科向多学科模式转变，建立科学资源共享机制，围绕重大课题或问题形成互动的科学共同体，等等。对于一些关键共同体来说，这种社会工程已经进行得很好，但对于另一些共同体来说，还没有。因此，我们提出了一系列的“孵化活动”的潜在社区，我们将命名为“进化和生态功能基因组学”（EEFG）。建议的孵化活动有两个主要目标：1。这个潜在社区的物理结合2。该社区的战略规划，将确定其科学、方案和教育目标;并制定可行的结构，以促进正在进行的互动并实现这些目标。孵化活动的两个目标将首先通过在国家科学基金会举行的规划/组织会议来实现，然后通过一系列的外联会议，这些会议将嵌入国际范围内现有科学协会的年度会议。