PASI: Advanced Tropical Phycology: Integrating Modern and Traditional Techniques to the Study of Tropical Algae; Balboa, Panama, June-July 2009

泛美高级研究院(PASI)奖由美国国家科学基金会和能源部(DOE)共同支持，将于2009年6-7月在巴拿马巴尔博亚的史密森热带研究所举行。PASI由史密森学会的雷切尔·科林博士组织，将为高级国际研究生、博士后和年轻的研究人员提供最先进的热带藻类研究方法和概念。拟议的PASI将结合讲座、实验室练习和实地考察，由不同的资深专家和年轻专业人员领导，在加勒比海最丰富的藻类植物群之一。该活动将向来自美洲各地的年轻参与者介绍在西热带高科技研究设施进行研究的可能性。PASI将加强现有的关系，并最终帮助在拉丁美洲的初级和高级研究人员与北美的同行之间建立新的合作。PASI的结果将通过一个全面的网站传播，包括方法学方案和生物信息学结果以及讲习班期间进行的练习的报告。将生成双语教材，供K-12和本科教育工作者下载。与会者将定期公布其研究领域内未来合作和国际项目的最新情况。

This Pan-American Advanced Studies Institutes (PASI) award, jointly supported by the NSF and the Department of Energy (DOE), will take place June-July, 2009 at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institution in Balboa, Panama. Organized by Dr. Rachel Collin of the Smithsonian Institution, the PASI will provide advanced international graduate students, post-docs, and young investigators in state-of-the-art methods and concepts for the study of tropical algae. The proposed PASI will combine lectures, laboratory exercises, and fieldwork led by a diverse group of established experts and young professionals in one of the richest algal floras of the Caribbean.The activity will introduce young participants from throughout the Americas to the possibility of conducting research in a high-tech research facility in the Western tropics. The PASI will strengthen existing relationships and ultimately, help to establish new collaborations between junior and senior researchers in Latin America and their counterparts in North America. PASI results will be disseminated through a comprehensive website, including methodological protocols and bioinformatics results and reports from exercises conducted during the workshop. Bilingual teaching materials will be generated for download by K-12 and undergraduate educators. Updates from participants on future collaborative and international projects in their regions of study will be posted regularly.