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

这项由 NSF 和能源部 (DOE) 共同支持的泛美高级研究所 (PASI) 颁奖典礼将于 2009 年 6 月至 7 月在巴拿马巴尔博亚的史密森尼热带研究所举行。 PASI 由史密森学会的 Rachel Collin 博士组织，将为高级国际研究生、博士后和年轻研究人员提供热带藻类研究的最先进方法和概念。 拟议的 PASI 将把讲座、实验室练习和实地考察结合起来，由一群知名专家和年轻专业人士在加勒比海最丰富的藻类植物群之一领导。该活动将向来自美洲各地的年轻参与者介绍在西部热带地区的高科技研究设施中进行研究的可能性。 PASI 将加强现有关系，并最终帮助拉丁美洲的初级和高级研究人员与北美同行之间建立新的合作。 PASI 结果将通过一个综合网站传播，包括方法学方案和生物信息学结果以及研讨会期间进行的练习的报告。 将生成双语教材供 K-12 和本科生教育工作者下载。参与者关于其研究领域未来合作和国际项目的最新信息将定期发布。

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.