Marine Biotechnolgy and Genomics Workshop, October 29-30, 2007 in St George's Bermuda

该奖项旨在支持将于2007年10月29日至30日在百慕大举行的“海洋基因组学革命的影响和机遇”讲习班。 该讲习班的目的是将学术界、工业管理人员和领导人、学生和研究机构聚集在一起，以满足协作与合作的需要，为海洋生物技术提供似乎缺乏的基础。海洋生物技术有很大的前景，但这一前景仍有待最充分地实现。随着基因组学提供的数据库的迅速发展和大量海洋物种的序列，从微生物到鲸鱼，现在可以推断出有关地球上生命进化，物种形成，新的代谢途径和具有工业应用的新代谢物的重要信息。随着基因组学的发展，在不消耗海洋资源的情况下利用信息越来越有利。也就是说，可以收获途径和基因，而不需要收获大量生活在海洋中的动物或植物，而且仍然可以制造产品。此外，需要对正在汇编和公布的海洋宏基因组数据进行解释，并对大量信息进行编目和“挖掘”。这最好通过工业界、学术界和非政府机构的伙伴关系来实现，但要得到公众的理解和“支持”。讲习班的报告将予出版，社论将提交各大新闻媒体。演讲者和与会者将包括美国和外国科学家。NSF的资金将用于支持年轻的研究人员，学生，博士后，以及来自科学界代表性不足的团体的演讲者和与会者。

This is an award to support the workshop "Implications and Opportunities of the Marine Genomics Revolution" to be held in Bermuda, October 29-30, 2007. The workshop has been designed to bring together academics, industry managers and leaders, students, and research institutions to address the need for collaboration and cooperation to provide an underpinning for marine biotechnology that seems to be lacking. Marine biotechnology has great promise but that promise remains to be filled to the fullest extent. With the burgeoning data base provided by genomics and the large number of sequences of marine species, from microorganisms to whales, it is now possible to deduce significant information about evolution of life on earth, speciation, new pathways of metabolism, and new metabolites with industrial application. With genomics, it is increasingly advantageous to utilize the information without depleting the resources of the oceans. That is, the pathways and the genes can be harvested without the necessity to harvest massive numbers of animals or plants resident in the sea and yet the products can still be manufactured. Also, the metagenomic data for the oceans being compiled and published need to be interpreted and the massive amount of information catalogued and "mined". This is best done by partnerships of industry, academia, and non-governmental institutions, but with public understanding and "buy in". The report of the workshop will be published and editorials will be submitted to major news media. Speakers and attendees will include both USA and foreign scientists. NSF funds will be used in to support young investigators, students, postdocs, and speakers and conferees from underrepresented groups in science.