RCN: EDEN (Evo-Devo-Eco Network): A research coordination network to promote technique and community development across the Evo-Devo-Eco field

在过去的几十年里，进化生物学、发育生物学和生态学的传统领域在概念上和技术上都走得更近了。现代进化和生态发育生物学（Evo-Devo-Eco）的新合成领域就是结果。Evo-Devo-Eco的进展在很大程度上依赖于转让和改造最初为传统实验室模式生物开发的技术，以便将其应用于新的和正在出现的模式生物。目前，网络建设不足往往导致研究非传统但有前途的模式生物的实验室在开发用于其系统的新协议时效率低下，无意中重复工作。此外，技术、思想和知识的交流还有巨大的未开发潜力，不仅可以从已建立的模型流向鲜为人知的系统，还可以从鲜为人知的系统暴露的独特生物学流向传统模型。该项目将创建一个新的研究协调网络，称为EDEN（Evo-Devo-Eco Network）。EDEN将促进新的支持网络和实验室之间的合作，目前不享有传统模式物种的大型社区资源。EDEN的四项主要活动将是：（1）促进从事新兴模型系统工作的实验室之间积极交流工具和技术;（2）培训Evo-Devo-Eco领域的本科生，重点是新兴模型系统;（3）记录这些生物体中使用和开发的工具和技术，并将其公开在线提供给未来的用户;以及（4）通过会议资助和赞助研讨会，促进整个Evo-Devo-Eco社区的互动。该网络的广告战略和筹资优先事项旨在最大限度地方便代表性不足群体的参与者。EDEN核心网络组的性别，种族和职业阶段的多样性将成为进一步增加下一代研究人员多样性的明显积极的起点。

Over the last several decades, the traditional fields of evolutionary biology, developmental biology and ecology have moved closer together both conceptually and technically. The newly synthetic field of modern Evolutionary and Ecological Developmental Biology, or Evo-Devo-Eco, is the result. Advances in Evo-Devo-Eco rely heavily on transferring and adapting technologies originally developed for use with traditional laboratory model organisms, in order to apply them to new and emerging model organisms. Presently, insufficient networking often leads laboratories working on non-traditional, yet promising, model organisms, to inefficiently and inadvertently duplicate effort when developing new protocols for use in their systems. Moreover, there is enormous untapped potential for the exchange of techniques, ideas, and knowledge to flow not just from established models to lesser-known systems, but also from the unique biology exposed by lesser-known systems to traditional models. This project will create a new research coordination network called EDEN (Evo-Devo-Eco Network). EDEN will facilitate new support networks and collaborations among laboratories that do not currently enjoy the large community resources of traditional model species. The four major activities of EDEN will be: (1) fostering active interchange of tools and techniques among labs working on emerging model systems; (2) training undergraduates in the field of Evo-Devo-Eco with a focus on emerging model systems; (3) documenting the tools and techniques used and developed in these organisms, and making them publicly available online for future users; and (4) promoting interactions across the Evo-Devo-Eco community through conference funding and the sponsoring of workshops. The advertising strategies and funding priorities of the network are designed to maximize accessibility by participants of underrepresented groups. The gender, ethnic, and career stage diversity of the EDEN core network group will serve as a visibly positive starting point for further increasing the diversity of the next generation of researchers.