Meeting: Undergraduates Phenotyping Arabidopsis Knockouts (unPAK) Student Meeting, Austin, TX, June 15-17, 2016

会议：本科生表型拟南芥基因敲除 (unPAK) 学生会议，德克萨斯州奥斯汀，2016 年 6 月 15 日至 17 日

• 批准号: 1620512
• 负责人: Michael Wolyniak
• 金额: $ 3.2万
• 依托单位: Hampden-Sydney College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-03-01 至 2017-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1620512&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Meeting; Undergraduates; Phenotyping; Arabidopsis; Knockouts

This award supports a gathering of faculty and student representatives from 11 institutions that participate in the Undergraduates Phenotyping Arabidopsis Knockouts (unPAK). Representatives from research universities, liberal arts colleges, community colleges, and historically minority-serving institutions, will attend the meeting in Austin, Texas in June 2016. The meeting will give students the opportunity to organize and participate in a professional gathering and faculty the opportunity to strategize on the directions the unPAK network will take in the future. Students will plan and work with faculty in the development of workshops that will address current issues with unPAK as well as potential future collaborative directions. These workshops are expected to include development of new techniques for research, comparison of data collection and analysis techniques between institutions, discussion of ways to integrate unPAK research into classroom settings, and improvement of dissemination strategies of unPAK data to the scientific community. The meeting will aid in expanding knowledge of plant genetics in support of developing better agricultural strategies for economically-critical crops while providing the next generation of scientists with networking and presentation skills necessary to launch their careers. Founded in 2010 (NSF award #1052262) and expanded in 2014 (NSF award #1355106), the Undergraduates Phenotyping Arabidopsis Knockouts (unPAK) project has sought to provide undergraduates with the opportunity to engage in authentic and collaborative research using Arabidopsis thaliana as a model system. This meeting is designed to support the long-term development and sustainability of unPAK, by bringing student and faculty representatives of all unPAK institutions together in Austin, TX from June 15-17, 2016 in conjunction with the Evolution 2016 meeting. Faculty will participate in both their own planning sessions as well as sessions with students. A major focus of the meeting will be on promoting student interactions to support their development as scientists. The meeting will provide a venue for in-person interaction that excites and inspires students to pursue careers in scientific research, and will improve unPAK's ability to efficiently deliver A. thaliana deletion line genotypic and phenotypic data by sharing best practices among all students and faculty in the unPAK network. By bringing together students from a wide range of institutional types, this meeting will also expose participating students and faculty to the many ways in which unPAK is engaging undergraduates in the advancement of scientific knowledge about plant genetics.

该奖项支持来自11个机构的教师和学生代表参加本科生表型拟南芥敲除（unPAK）的聚会。来自研究型大学、文理学院、社区学院和历史上为少数民族服务的机构的代表将参加2016年6月在德克萨斯州奥斯汀举行的会议。会议将使学生有机会组织和参加专业聚会，教师有机会就unPAK网络未来的发展方向制定战略。学生将计划并与教师合作开发研讨会，以解决当前的问题与unPAK以及未来潜在的合作方向。预计这些讲习班将包括开发新的研究技术，比较各机构之间的数据收集和分析技术，讨论如何将巴勒斯坦科学研究所的研究纳入课堂环境，以及改进向科学界传播巴勒斯坦科学研究所数据的战略。会议将有助于扩大植物遗传学的知识，以支持为经济上至关重要的作物制定更好的农业战略，同时为下一代科学家提供开展职业生涯所需的网络和演讲技能。成立于2010年（NSF奖#1052262），并在2014年扩大（NSF奖#1355106），本科生表型拟南芥敲除（unPAK）项目一直试图为本科生提供机会，从事真实的和合作的研究使用拟南芥作为模型系统。本次会议的目的是支持长期发展和unPAK的可持续性，通过将所有unPAK机构的学生和教师代表从2016年6月15日至17日聚集在德克萨斯州奥斯汀市，与2016年进化会议一起。教师将参加自己的规划会议以及与学生的会议。会议的一个主要重点将是促进学生的互动，以支持他们作为科学家的发展。会议将提供一个面对面互动的场所，激发和激励学生追求科学研究的职业生涯，并将提高unPAK有效提供A的能力。通过在unPAK网络中的所有学生和教职员工之间分享最佳做法，获得了拟南芥缺失系基因型和表型数据。通过将来自各种机构类型的学生聚集在一起，这次会议还将使参与的学生和教师了解unPAK使本科生参与植物遗传学科学知识进步的多种方式。