Meeting: A Decade of Ecological Genomics: The Tenth Annual Ecological Genomics Symposium, October 26-28, 2012, Kansas City, MO

十年前，生态基因组学还是一个处于萌芽阶段的领域。 该领域的建立是为了全面了解生物体在全基因组范围内对不断变化的生态和环境条件做出反应的遗传机制。 在过去的十年中，生态基因组学已经发展成为一门富有成效的学科，通过新的跨学科研究蓬勃发展，整合了生态学，进化，基因组学和生理学领域，以解决机械层面的基本问题。该会议奖通过支持将由堪萨斯州立大学生态基因组学研究所于2012年10月26日至28日在密苏里州堪萨斯城广场上的埃米特酒店主办的第十届年度生态基因组学研讨会，帮助推动实地生态基因组学的发展。第十届生态基因组学年会将实现两个主要目标。 首先，本次研讨会为传播世界上生态基因组学快速发展和多样化的研究提供了唯一的年度论坛，因此它将继续实现这一目标。第二，由于这是第十次年度专题讨论会，本次会议还将使与会者能够反思过去十年的发展，并为该领域指明前进的道路。因此，本次研讨会提供了一个重要的场所，交流来自不同学科的科学信息，并为该领域培养新的研究方向。该项目将专门为11名国内演讲者和10名学生/博士后奖学金提供旅费和住宿费。发言者包括既建立和新兴的领导人的领域是科学和文化的多样性。旅行奖学金将支持从事生态基因组学工作的年轻科学家。这些奖学金将有针对性地支持来自历史上代表性不足的科学群体的个人。会议是围绕一组不重叠的邀请会谈设计的，为期两天，为与会者提供了充分的机会来培养他们之间的互动。

A decade ago ecological genomics was a field in its infancy. The field was created to develop a comprehensive understanding of the genetic mechanisms that organisms use to respond to changing ecological and environmental conditions at the genome-wide scale. During the last ten years ecological genomics has grown into a productive discipline that thrives via novel interdisciplinary research that integrates the fields of ecology, evolution, genomics, and physiology to address fundamental questions at the mechanistic level. This meeting award aids the advancement of the field ecological genomics through support of the tenth annual Ecological Genomics Symposium to be hosted by the Kansas State University, Ecological Genomics Institute from the 26th to the 28th of October 2012 at the Marriot Hotel on the Plaza in Kansas City, Missouri. The Tenth Annual Ecological Genomics Symposium will accomplish two primary goals. First, this symposium provides the only annual forum for the dissemination of the rapidly advancing and diverse research in ecological genomics in the world and thus it will continue to accomplish this goal. Second, since this is the tenth annual symposium, this meeting will also allow participants to reflect on the developments of the last decade, as well as chart the path forward for the field. Thus, this symposium provides an essential venue for exchanging scientific information from diverse disciplines and fostering novel research directions for the field. The project will specifically support travel and lodging costs for eleven domestic speakers and ten student/postdoctoral fellowships. The speakers include both established and emerging leaders of the field that is both scientifically and culturally diverse. The travel fellowships will support young scientists working in ecological genomics. These fellowships will be targeted to support individuals from historically underrepresented groups in science. The meeting is designed around a single set of non-overlapping invited talks over a two-day period affording ample opportunity to cultivate interactions among the participants.