Workshop: Sequence-based Classification of Fungi; June 12-13, 2014 - East Langing, MI

授予宾夕法尼亚州立大学的奖项是为了支持一个研讨会，讨论和制定一个基于DNA序列的真菌分类的社区计划。大部分的真菌多样性只能从DNA序列片段中得知，但这些分类群不能纳入当前的分类系统，因为它们的学名与物理标本无关。 本次研讨会将考虑各种技术，分析和分类/命名的挑战和机会，实施DNA序列为基础的真菌分类。研讨会为期两天，共有40名与会者。 参与者将包括来自不同职业阶段和机构类型的研究人员，至少有十名学生和博士后研究人员，包括代表性不足的群体的成员，预计将参加。讲习班的管理将由一个由六人组成的指导委员会负责，其中包括三名妇女、两名来自主要本科院校的教师和两名来自代表性不足群体的人员。讲习班将产生：1）广泛分发的会议报告，2）提交在同行评审期刊上发表的立场文件，以及3）修改国际藻类，真菌和植物代码以允许基于序列的真菌分类的建议。本次研讨会的建议不仅将提供一个框架，真菌的分类使用DNA序列数据，但也将作为一个模型，其他类群的分类只知道从DNA序列，如微生物。

An award to Pennsylvania State University is made to support a workshop to discuss and develop a community plan for a DNA sequence-based classification of fungi. A large proportion of fungal diversity is only known from DNA sequence fragments, but these taxa cannot be incorporated within current classification systems because their scientific names are not associated with a physical specimen. This workshop will consider the various technical, analytical and taxonomic/nomenclatural challenges and opportunities for implementing a DNA sequence-based taxonomy of fungi. The workshop will be two days in length and will include a total 40 participants. Participants will include researchers from diverse career stages and types of institution, with at least ten students and post-doctoral researchers, including members from under-represented groups, expected to participate. Workshop management will be handled by a steering committee of six individuals including three women, two faculty from Principally Undergraduate Institutions, and two people from under-represented groups. The workshop will result in: 1) a broadly distributed meeting report, 2) a position paper to be submitted for publication in a peer-reviewed journal, and 3) a proposal to modify the International Code for Algae, Fungi and Plants to allow sequence-based classification of fungi. Recommendations from this workshop will not only provide a framework for the classification of fungi using DNA sequence data, but will also serve as a model for the classification of other taxa known only from DNA sequences such as microbes.