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

该奖项支持来自11个机构的教职员工和学生代表的聚会，这些机构参加了大学生表型拟南芥基因敲除(UnPAK)。来自研究型大学、文理学院、社区学院和历史上为少数族裔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。这次会议将使学生有机会组织和参加一次专业聚会，并使教职员工有机会就联巴行动网络今后的发展方向制定战略。学生将计划并与教员一起开发研讨会，以解决当前与PAK有关的问题以及未来可能的合作方向。这些讲习班预计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，讨论如何将太平洋岛屿办事处的研究纳入课堂环境，以及改进太平洋岛屿办事处向科学界传播数据的战略。会议将有助于扩大植物遗传学知识，支持为经济关键作物制定更好的农业战略，同时为下一代科学家提供启动其职业生涯所需的网络和陈述技能。大学生表型拟南芥基因敲除项目成立于2010年(国家科学基金会奖#1052262)，并于2014年扩大(国家科学基金会奖#1355106)，旨在为本科生提供机会，以拟南芥为模式系统从事真实和合作的研究。本次会议旨在支持UNPAK的长期发展和可持续性，将所有UNPAK机构的学生和教职员工代表于2016年6月15日至17日在德克萨斯州奥斯汀汇聚一堂，同时召开2016年演进会议。教师将参加他们自己的计划会议以及与学生的会议。会议的一个主要焦点将是促进学生互动，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事业，并将通过在PAK网络的所有学生和教职员工之间分享最佳做法，提高PAK有效提供A.thaliana缺失线基因和表型数据的能力。通过将来自广泛机构类型的学生聚集在一起，这次会议还将使参与会议的学生和教职员工接触到联合国植物遗传学研究所正在以多种方式让本科生参与促进植物遗传学的科学知识的发展。

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.