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”研讨会。该讲习班的目的是把学者、工业管理人员和领导人、学生和研究机构聚集在一起，讨论协作和合作的需要，为似乎缺乏的海洋生物技术提供基础。海洋生物技术有很大的希望，但这一希望仍有待充分实现。随着基因组学提供的迅速增长的数据库和从微生物到鲸鱼的大量海洋物种序列，现在可以推断出有关地球生命进化，物种形成，代谢新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，在不耗尽海洋资源的情况下利用这些信息变得越来越有利。也就是说，途径和基因可以在不需要大量捕获海洋动物或植物的情况下获得，而产品仍然可以被制造出来。此外，需要对正在汇编和发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，但要有公众的理解和“参与”。研讨会的报告和社论将在各大新闻媒体上发表。演讲者和与会者将包括美国和外国科学家。美国国家科学基金会的资金将用于支持年轻的研究者、学生、博士后、演讲者和来自科学界代表性不足群体的与会者。

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.