Workshop-Physiological Research, Integration, Synthesis, and Modeling Center, to be held in Santa Barbara, CA, March 17 - 19, 2007.

这笔小额赠款将支持一个研讨会，以评估和启动一个国家中心网络，重点是生理研究、整合、合成和建模(PRISM)计划。这一概念将在2007年3月17日至19日在国家生态分析与合成中心(NCEAS)设施(加利福尼亚州圣巴巴拉)举行的为期两天的研讨会上进行探索。这次研讨会的具体目的是制定一份文件，1)细化NCN-PRISM计划的关键要素，以反映生物生物界的广泛利益，2)确定这一努力的现有和潜在合作伙伴，3)概述支持该计划的发展计划。代表生理学研究、保护、生物医学和动物园社区的15名科学家已被确定参加这个最初的研讨会。每个人都表达了对发展比较生理学和生态生理学的综合计划的兴趣。通过一系列的陈述、讨论和写作作业，这个小组将评估创建一个国家综合生理学中心网络的必要性、后勤和成本。NCEAS被选为讲习班的地点，以鼓励与其主任就发展国家综合中心的成功步骤(以NCEAS为例)以及未来与拟议的PRISM中心合作的潜力进行讨论。

This small grant will support a workshop to evaluate and initiate a National Center Network focusing on a Physiological Research, Integration, Synthesis and Modeling (PRISM) program. The concept will be explored during a two-day workshop on March 17-19, 2007 at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) facility (Santa Barbara, CA). The specific aims of this workshop are to develop a document that 1) refines the key elements of the NCN-PRISM program to reflect the broad interests of the organismal biological community, 2) identifies current and potential partners for this endeavor, and 3) outlines a development scheme for supporting the program. Fifteen scientists representing the areas of physiological research, conservation, biomedicine, and zoological park communities have been identified to participate in this initial workshop. Each has expressed an interest in the development of an integrated program for comparative and ecological physiology. Through a series of presentations, discussions and writing assignments this group will evaluate the need, logistics and costs of creating a national center network for integrative physiology. The NCEAS was selected as the location for the workshop to encourage discussions with its director concerning the successful steps towards developing a national synthesis center (using NCEAS as an example) and the potential for future collaboration with the proposed PRISM Center.