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

0941759 SihTitle：美国-澳大利亚讲习班：跨学科的解决方案，在食品，健康和环境进化的挑战这个奖项支持美国研究人员，博士后和研究生在美国的参与- 2010年初将在澳大利亚举办关于粮食、健康和环境方面的演变挑战的跨学科解决办法的澳大利亚讲习班。 共同组织者是加州大学戴维斯分校的安德鲁·西教授和斯科特·卡罗尔教授、位于堪培拉的澳大利亚联邦科学与工业研究组织的加里·费特博士和斯科特·奥教授。尼尔在澳大利亚布里斯班的昆士兰州大学。 研讨会将在澳大利亚的苍鹭岛研究站举行。这是大堡礁。 它使基础科学家与应用科学家，从业人员和管理人员合作。 它将包括在健康和医药、可持续农业、商品生产和保护方面采取渐进办法的专家。 分组将讨论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的进化挑战; 3）气候变化，社区遗传学和设计和自然生物社区的表型管理;生物入侵对保护的影响不断演变，农业和自然资源。美国和澳大利亚的参与者之间有足够的利益重叠，表明他们可以成功地追求他说，这种互动将使双方受益。 这种多学科的思想交流可能会产生一个重要的综合和发展的新方法来预测，预防和管理演变的挑战。 进化管理具有维持生物多样性、设计用于医疗和环境修复的生物体、建立新的社区以减少发病率和恢复生态系统功能和服务的潜力。 讲习班的成果将提供一个论坛，以制定共同框架，逐步解决医学、农业和环境科学方面的问题。这些新方法的受益者是联邦、大学和工业界的科学家和决策者，以及联邦、州和工业界的行政人员和管理人员。 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研究人员和学生保持联系和合作。 有关讲习班及其成果的信息将通过相关网站提供，包括白色文件、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