US-Australia Workshop: Interdisciplinary Solutions to Evolutionary Challenges in Food, Health and the Environment

0941759SihTitle：美澳研讨会：食品、健康和环境进化挑战的跨学科解决方案该奖项支持美国研究人员、博士后和研究生参加将于2010年初在澳大利亚举行的关于食品、健康和环境进化挑战的跨学科解决方案研讨会。联合组织者是加州大学戴维斯分校的Andrew Sih和Scott Carroll教授，堪培拉澳大利亚联邦科学和工业研究组织的Gary Fitt博士，以及澳大利亚布里斯班昆士兰大学的Scott O？Neill教授。研讨会将在澳大利亚的苍鹭岛研究站举行--S大堡礁。它使基础科学家与应用科学家、从业者和管理人员合作。它将包括卫生和医药、可持续农业、商品生产和保护方面的进化方法方面的专家。分组讨论将讨论1)气候变化和不断演变的疾病对公共卫生管理的挑战；2)可持续基因工程农业的实施和监管面临的进化挑战；3)设计和自然生物群落中的气候变化、社区遗传学和表型管理；以及4)生物入侵对保护、农业和自然资源的不断演变的影响。美国和澳大利亚与会者之间有足够的利益重叠，表明他们可以成功地开展拟议的活动，这种互动将对双方都有利。这种多学科的思想交流可能会产生对预测、预防和管理进化挑战的新方法的重大综合和开发。进化管理具有维持生物多样性的潜力，设计用于医疗和环境补救的生物体，并建立新的群落来减少病程和恢复生态系统功能和服务。研讨会的成果将提供一个论坛，为医学、农业和环境科学的进化问题解决发展相互框架。这些新方法的受益者是联邦、大学和工业科学家和政策制定者，以及联邦、州和工业行政管理人员和管理人员。研讨会将为美国博士后和研究生提供一个获得全球研究经验的绝佳机会。预计他们将在整个职业生涯中与澳大利亚的研究人员和学生保持联系和合作。关于研讨会及其调查结果的信息将通过各自的网站提供，包括白皮书、摘要、讨论和视频

0941759SihTitle: U.S.-Australia Workshop: Interdisciplinary Solutions to Evolutionary Challenges in Food, Health and the EnvironmentThis award supports the participation of American researchers, postdocs, and graduate students in a U.S.-Australia workshop on interdisciplinary solutions to evolutionary challenges in food, health and the environment to be held in Australia in early 2010. The co-organizers are Professors Andrew Sih and Scott Carroll at the University of California, Davis, Dr. Gary Fitt at the Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization in Canberra and Professor Scott O?Neill at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia. The workshop will take place at the Heron Island Research Station on Australia?s Great Barrier Reef. It brings basic scientists into collaboration with applied scientists, practitioners and managers. It will include experts in evolutionary approaches to health and medicine, sustainable agriculture, commodities production and conservation. Breakout groups will be discussing 1) climate change and evolving diseases as challenges to public health management; 2) evolutionary challenges to implementation and regulation of sustainable genetically-engineered agriculture; 3) climate change, community genetics and phenotype management in designed and natural biotic communities; and 4) evolving impacts of biotic invasions on conservation, agriculture and natural resources.There is sufficient overlap of interests between the U.S. and Australian participants to indicate that they can successfully pursue the activities proposed and that the interaction will benefit both sides. This multidisciplinary exchange of ideas will likely produce a significant synthesis and development of new approaches to predict, prevent and manage evolutionary challenges. Evolutionary management holds the potential to sustain biodiversity, design organisms for medical and environmental remediation, and build novel communities to reduce pathogenesis and restore ecosystem functions and services. Results of the workshop will provide a forum for developing mutual frameworks for evolutionary problem-solving in the medical, agricultural and environmental sciences. Beneficiaries of these new approaches are federal, university and industrial scientists and policy-makers, as well as federal, state and industrial administrators and managers. The workshop will provide the U.S. postdocs and graduate students an excellent opportunity to receive a global research experience. It is anticipated that they will maintain contacts and collaborations with the Australian researchers and students throughout their careers. Information about the workshop and its findings will be made available via respective websites and will include white papers, abstracts, discussions and videos