Collaborative Project: A workshop addressing comparative genomic approaches to understanding the evolutionary ecology of corals and other basal metazoans.

合作项目：一个研讨会，讨论比较基因组方法以了解珊瑚和其他基础后生动物的进化生态学。

• 批准号: 1408097
• 负责人: Paul Falkowski
• 金额: $ 2.12万
• 依托单位: Rutgers University New Brunswick
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-12-15 至 2015-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1408097&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Project; workshop; addressing; comparative

To help accelerate our understanding of corals and their relation to more basal and derived taxa, a workshop will be held at Rutgers University in the winter 2014. This workshop will focus on improving the annotation of a draft genome for the Red Sea coral, Stylophora pistillata, coupled with a comparative analysis with more basal and derived taxa. The goal of the workshop is to finalize the annotation of the genome of the widely used model coral. Workshop participants, international in scope, would also compare coral genomes, provide a genomic reference data base for the research community, and allow analyses of functional genomic models of coral metabolism, biomineralization, evolution, and development. The effort has both basic and applied science components. The basic components are related to understanding the evolutionary ecology of corals and their relationship to other basal animals. The applied components are related to the sensitivity of corals to global climate change related stressors including thermal stress and ocean acidification.Scleractinian corals are the architects of a threatened ecosystem that are highly valued culturally, biologically and economically. Genomic resources for this important taxonomic group are only now beginning to emerge and this workshop will advance the framework required to interpret genomic data and provide open access to genomic data, an activity that will build significant research capacity for the field of coral reef science. In addition to a peer reviewed publication summarizing the conclusion of the investigations, data will be disseminated broadly in a referenced and interpretable database of coral genomes that will serve scientists, educators, managers, conservation personnel and the lay community via a web portal. In terms of training, two postdoctoral fellows and a graduate student will be responsible for the detailed organization of the workshop. This experience will allow them to understand how to develop cooperative efforts in the scientific community as part of their mentoring plan and provide networking opportunities with the very diverse group of workshop participants that will be important in their career development.

为了帮助我们更快地了解珊瑚及其与更多基础和衍生分类群的关系，将于2014年冬季在罗格斯大学举办一个讲习班。这次研讨会将侧重于改进红海珊瑚Stylophora pistillata基因组草案的注释，并与更多的基础和衍生分类群进行比较分析。讲习班的目标是最后确定广泛使用的模型珊瑚基因组的注释。国际范围的讲习班参与者还将比较珊瑚基因组，为研究界提供基因组参考数据库，并分析珊瑚新陈代谢、生物矿化、进化和发展的功能基因组模型。这项工作既有基础科学部分，也有应用科学部分。基本组成部分与了解珊瑚的进化生态及其与其他基底动物的关系有关。应用组件与珊瑚对全球气候变化相关压力源（包括热应力和海洋酸化）的敏感性有关。硬珊瑚是受威胁生态系统的建筑师，在文化上，生物学上和经济上都具有高度价值。 这一重要分类群体的基因组资源现在才刚刚开始出现，这次研讨会将推进解释基因组数据所需的框架，并提供开放获取基因组数据的机会，这一活动将为珊瑚礁科学领域建立重要的研究能力。除了一份经同行审查的出版物概述调查结论外，还将在一个可供参考和解释的珊瑚基因组数据库中广泛传播数据，该数据库将通过一个门户网站为科学家、教育工作者、管理人员、养护人员和非专业人士提供服务。在培训方面，两名博士后研究员和一名研究生将负责讲习班的具体组织工作。这种经验将使他们了解如何在科学界开展合作努力，作为其指导计划的一部分，并提供与多元化研讨会参与者群体建立联系的机会，这对他们的职业发展非常重要。