EID: Challenges and Opportunities in the Ecology of Marine Infectious Diseases

这次研讨会将汇集积极开展海洋、沿海和河口系统传染病生态学研究的科学家。它将由北卡罗来纳大学教堂山分校的雷切尔·诺布尔和佐治亚大学的吉姆·波特协调。会议将在波多黎各的圣胡安举行，方便地与2011年ASLO水产科学会议保持一致，以受益于由私人投资机构主持的关于海洋系统中的EID的ASLO特别会议，以及定期参加这一公认的国际会议的科学家的参与和讨论。这次研讨会将探讨正在进行的和过去的海洋EID项目的科学状况，并促进关于该领域创新项目的讨论。与会者将确定解决容易处理的问题的挑战和解决这些问题所需的伙伴关系，并就短期和长期研究方向提出建议。他们还将确定陆地系统和海洋系统中的EID之间的主要区别，以及海洋系统中的EID如何从陆地系统的知识中受益。在2010年3月举行的上一次传染病生态学和进化会议上，通过与首席研究人员的讨论，科学界普遍认为这次研讨会是及时和重要的。我们必须确定与控制海洋传染病有关的挑战，因为幼虫及其相关疾病有可能远距离传播。此外，正如PIs提到的，气候变化和人类活动等环境应激源正在影响微生物的生长和生存，并可能在不久的将来增加海洋疾病的重要性。广泛影响：这次研讨会的见解可能对提高海洋/沿海社区对NSF EID计划的反应至关重要。讲习班的参加者将在挑选时牢记需要包括社区的不同阶层。PIS计划将来自发达国家和发展中国家的青年科学家以及具有不同背景的科学家纳入重点社区规划工作。讲习班可能会加强海洋科学家与其他对传染病感兴趣的人(如生物医学、兽医、流行病学家、病理学家和数学家)之间的合作。这一社区讲习班的结果将以适合在一份主要同行评议期刊上发表的形式传播，并将向科学界广泛提供。

This workshop will bring together scientists actively conducting research on ecology of infectious diseases (EID) in marine, coastal and estuarine systems. It will be coordinated by Rachel Noble, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Jim Porter, University of Georgia. The meeting will be held at San Juan, Puerto Rico, conveniently aligned with the 2011 ASLO Aquatic Sciences meeting to benefit from the ASLO special session on EID in marine systems chaired by the PIs and from participation and discussions by scientists that regularly attend this recognized international meeting.Intellectual Merit:This is a community planning activity that is of the highest importance to enhance our understanding of the ecology of infectious diseases in marine, coastal and estuarine systems. This workshop will explore the state of the science in ongoing and past marine EID projects and foster discussions about innovative projects in this field. Participants will identify challenges to address tractable questions and partnerships needed to address them, as well as make recommendations for short and long term research directions. They will also identify major differences between EID in terrestrial and marine systems and how EID in marine systems can benefit from knowledge about terrestrial systems.Through discussions with Principal Investigators in the last Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases (EEID) Meeting held on March 2010, there is wide consensus in the scientific community that this workshop is timely and important. It is key that we identify the challenges related to the control of infectious diseases in the oceans as there is a potential for long distance dispersal of larvae and their associated diseases. Additionally, as mentioned by the PIs, environmental stressors, such as climate change and anthropogenic activity, are affecting microbial growth and survival, and are likely to increase the importance of marine diseases in the near future.Broader Impacts:The insights from this workshop are likely to be of critical importance in increasing the response of the marine/coastal community to the NSF EID program. The workshop participants will be selected keeping in mind the need to include a diverse cross section of the community. The PIs plan to include young scientists as well as scientists with different backgrounds and from both developed and developing countries in a focused community planning effort. The workshop will potentially increase collaborations between marine scientists and others interested in infectious diseases (e.g. biomedical, veterinary, epidemiologists, pathologists and mathematicians). The results from this community workshop will be disseminated in a format suitable for publication in a major peer-reviewed journal and will be widely available to the scientific community.