Sustaining Biological Infrastructure: Strategies for Success A Short Course for Project Directors

美国生态学会(ESA)获得了一笔赠款，用于开发一项名为“可持续生物基础设施：成功的战略”的培训计划，为生物研究基础设施项目的负责人提供战略性商业规划、营销和沟通方面的培训。成功的生物学研究有赖于获得广泛的支持性基础设施资源，包括数据库、活体种群藏品、博物馆藏品和野外站。这些资源反过来需要明智的规划，以保持其长期的财务可持续性和创新能力，以满足研究界不断变化的需求。该计划将每年举办一次为期三年的培训研讨会，其智力价值在于为研究基础设施主管提供他们所需的技能，将长期财务可持续性和创新纳入他们对这些基本资源的管理和持续开发。生物研究，包括农业、遗传学、环境科学和人类疾病等直接社会相关领域的研究，依赖于基础设施。这种基础设施的例子包括收集有记录的来源和遗传历史的活体，存储有关基因序列和蛋白质结构信息的数据储存库，以及配备环境监测设备的野外站。这些资源的主管需要深入了解战略业务规划，以确保对科学发展和创新至关重要的基础设施的长期可持续性。讲习班组织者将鼓励广泛的科学家参与，包括那些来自科学界代表性不足的群体的科学家，参与者将有机会就他们的挑战和经验、成功和失败交换信息。因此，这一计划的更广泛影响在于它对生物研究的长期可持续性和发展科学家计划主任社区的贡献，这些科学家计划主任反过来可以将他们的新知识传授给下一代科学家。有关此次研讨会的更多信息将在欧空局网站www.esa.org的“科学计划”部分提供。

The Ecological Society of America (ESA) is awarded a grant to develop a training program, "Sustaining Biological Infrastructure: Strategies for Success", to provide directors of biological research infrastructure projects with training in strategic business planning, marketing, and communication. Successful biological research relies on access to a wide range of supporting infrastructure resources, including databases, living stocks collections, museum collections, and field stations. These resources in turn require informed planning to maintain their long-term financial sustainability and capacity to innovate to meet the research community's constantly changing needs. The intellectual merit of this program, which will conduct an annual training workshop for three years, consists in providing research infrastructure directors with the skills they need to integrate long-term financial sustainability and innovation into their management and continuing development of these essential resources.Biological research, including research in fields of direct societal relevance such as agriculture, genetics, environmental science, and human diseases, depends on infrastructure. Examples of this infrastructure include collections of living organisms with documented provenance and genetic histories, data repositories with information about gene sequences and protein structures, and field stations with environmental monitoring equipment. Directors of these resources need in-depth knowledge of strategic business planning to ensure the long-term sustainability of infrastructure vital to scientific development and innovation. Workshop organizers will encourage participation by a wide range of scientists, including those from groups underrepresented in science, and participants will have the opportunity to exchange information about their challenges and experiences, successes and failures. The broader impacts of this program thus lie in its contribution to the long-term sustainability of biological research and to the development of a community of scientist-program directors who can in turn pass along their new knowledge to the next generation of scientists. Additional information about this workshop will be made available in the "Science Programs" section of ESA's website, www.esa.org.