Symposium: Tapping the Power of Crustacean Transcriptomes to Address Grand Challenges in Comparative Biology, Portland, Oregon, January 3-7, 2016

转录组学研究方法使研究人员能够全面分析用于在细胞或组织样本中产生蛋白质的信使RNA的概况。这种最流行的方法被称为“RNA-seq”（rna测序），它正在进入比较生物学和综合生物学的所有领域，产生了用传统的逐个蛋白质或逐个基因的方法难以或不可能获得的见解。但是，使用这项技术存在障碍，特别是对于新的或所谓的“非模式”生物。该奖项将支持一个题为“利用甲壳类动物转录组的力量来应对比较生物学中的重大挑战”的研讨会，以及将于2016年1月3日至7日在俄勒冈州波特兰举行的比较与综合生物学学会（SICB）会议上举行的相关活动。这次研讨会将帮助研究人员识别并克服这些障碍。本次研讨会由甲壳类动物学会和四川生物学会五个分会共同主办。此外，PI和研讨会组织者是动物基因组到表型研究协调网络（AG2P RCN）的执行委员会成员。该计划包括11个演示，代表六个研究领域，使用转录组学来解决甲壳类生物中的各种研究问题。将有一个补充会议，演讲者将从提交的摘要中选出。随之而来的午餐、反馈摊位、推特和研讨会将进一步扩大跨学科、性别、种族和专业级别的参与。该奖项支持的活动将包括：(1)在会议早期安排午餐，介绍AG2P RCN；(2)在展厅设置RNA-seq反馈展位和Twitter，收集SICB成员的意见和需求；(3)转录组学研讨会，审查管道和最佳实践，包括反馈摊位的反应。研讨会的预期成果包括一份关于为RNA-seq数据分析创建接口和管道的政策文件，以及招募AG2P RCN的参与者。计划在SICB综合与比较生物学（ICB）期刊上发表的会议论文将为未来的研究人员提供宝贵的资源。

Transcriptomic research approaches allow investigators to comprehensively analyze the profile of messenger RNA used to produce protein in cells or tissue samples. The most popular such approach, called "RNA-seq" (for RNA-sequencing) is finding its way into all areas of comparative and integrative biology, yielding insights that are difficult or impossible to attain with the traditional protein-by-protein or gene-by-gene approach. But, there are impediments to using the technology, especially for novel or so-called "non-model" organisms. This award will support a symposium, "Tapping the Power of Crustacean Transcriptomes to Address Grand Challenges in Comparative Biology," and associated activities that will be held at the Society for Comparative & Integrative Biology (SICB) meeting in Portland, Oregon Jan. 3-7, 2016. The symposium will help researchers both identify, and move past such impediments. The symposium is co-sponsored by The Crustacean Society and five SICB Divisions. In addition, the PI and symposium organizers are Executive Committee members of the Animal Genome to Phenome Research Coordination Network (AG2P RCN). The program consists of 11 presentations representing six research areas using transcriptomics to a variety of research questions in crustacean biology. There will be a complementary session with speakers selected from submitted abstracts. The accompanying luncheon, feedback booth, Twitter feed, and workshop will further broaden participation across disciplines, gender, ethnicity, and professional rank. The activities supported by this award will include: (1) a lunch scheduled early in the meeting to introduce the AG2P RCN; (2) an RNA-seq feedback booth in the exhibition hall and Twitter feed to gather comments and identify needs from SICB members; and (3) a transcriptomics workshop to review pipelines and best practices that include responses from the feedback booth. Expected outcomes of the workshop include a policy paper on creating an interface and pipeline for the analysis of RNA-seq data, and recruitment of participants in the AG2P RCN. Conference papers planned for publication in the SICB journal, Integrative and Comparative Biology (ICB) will serve as a valuable resource for future researchers.