Conference: 50 Years of Interdisciplinary Research at the Duke Lemur Center: the power of biological infrastructure to advance knowledge

该项目将支持一个联合研讨会和研讨会，以纪念杜克狐猴中心（DLC） 50年的跨学科生物学研究，同时也为科学界强调和评估生物种群收藏的独特强大属性。DLC影响了生物学科，包括行为生态学、脑科学、进化生态学、微生物宏基因组学、比较基因组学、生物力学、One Health疾病动力学、老龄化和人口统计学、生物多样性保护、古生物学、气候变化、比较生理学、物种形成遗传学、感觉生物学等。DLC是一个真正的生活实验室，通过跨学科研究推进科学，奖学金和生物保护，在其50年的历史中，成千上万的学生从K-12到研究生水平都参与并受到他们在DLC的经历的启发。此外，成千上万的普通公众游客通过与DLC的工作人员、学生和藏品的接触，了解了生物多样性发现和保护的概念，以及生物研究的力量。然而，尽管取得了巨大的成功，DLC和其他生物馆藏面临着作为基础科学基础设施的长期可持续性问题。需要阐明这些生物资源的力量和不可替代性，以便所有利益攸关方了解这些国家资源的风险和需求。作为2015年10月在国家遗传资源保护中心举办的美国文化收藏网络会议的后续行动，DLC将于2016年9月21日下午举办生物资源收集经理工作组会议。工作组将代表五个领先的生物中心，鉴于这些中心关注的系统发育广度（植物、真菌、昆虫和哺乳动物），研讨会将涵盖生命之树的巨大延伸，因此代表了超过数亿年的进化。该工作组会议将紧接由DLC主办的50周年研讨会。研讨会将于2016年9月22日至23日举行，将特别关注与BIO理事会相关的学科，特别是行为系统，气候变化，传染病的生态学和进化，进化过程，系统学和生物多样性，以及理解大脑。会议详情、旅行和住宿信息将通过研讨会网站http://lemur.duke.edu/50/通知与会者；它也可以接受在线注册。为了吸引学生和小型机构的参与者，DLC将于2016年9月22日晚上举行海报会议。DLC研讨会和研讨会尤其值得注意的是女性在科学领域的强大代表性，51%的参与者是女性。生物种群工作组的结果将汇编成一份白皮书文件，与会者将为此寻找一个生物界可以广泛获得的出版场所。50周年研讨会的所有演讲都将被记录下来，并在DLC的YouTube频道上公开。

This project will support a combined workshop and symposium to commemorate fifty years of interdisciplinary biological research at the Duke Lemur Center (DLC), and also, to highlight and evaluate the uniquely powerful attributes of Living Stocks Collections for the scientific community. The DLC has impacted biological disciplines ranging from behavioral ecology to brain sciences, evolutionary ecology, microbial metagenomics, comparative genomics, biomechanics, One Health disease dynamics, aging and demography, biodiversity conservation, paleontology, climate change, comparative physiology, speciation genetics, sensory biology, and more. The DLC is truly a living laboratory for advancing science, scholarship, and biological conservation through interdisciplinary research, and over its 50-year history, thousands of students ranging from K-12 through postgraduate levels have been engaged in and inspired by their experiences at the DLC. Also, hundreds of thousands of visitors from the general public have been exposed to the concepts of biodiversity discovery and conservation, as well as the power of biological research via their exposure to the DLC's staff, students, and collections. Despite its resounding success, however, the DLC and other Living Stocks Collections face issues of long-term sustainability as foundational infrastructure for the basic sciences. The power and irreplaceable nature of these biological collections needs to be articulated such that all stakeholders understand the risks and needs for these national resources.As a follow-up to the U.S. Culture Collection Network hosted in October, 2015 at the National Center for Genetic Resources Preservation, the DLC will host a working group meeting of Living Stocks Collection Managers on the afternoon of September 21, 2016. The working group will represent five of the leading Living Stock Centers, and given the phylogenetic breadth of the centers' foci (plants, fungi, insects, and mammals) the workshop will cover an enormous stretch of the Tree of Life, thus representing more than many hundreds of millions of years of evolution. The working group meeting will immediately precede the 50th-Anniversary Symposium to be hosted by the DLC. The Symposium to held on September 22-23, 2016 will focus specifically on disciplines relevant to the BIO Directorate, most especially Behavioral Systems, Climate Change, the Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases, Evolutionary Processes, Systematics and Biodiversity, and Understanding the Brain. Meeting details and travel and lodging information will be communicated to attendees via the symposium website, http://lemur.duke.edu/50/; which is also set up to accept online registrations. In order to engage students and participants from smaller institutions, there will be a poster session held at the DLC on the evening of September 22, 2016. The DLC workshop and symposium is particularly notable for the strong representation of women in science with 51% of participants being women. Results from the Living Stocks Working Group will be compiled into a white paper document for which the participants will seek a publication venue that is broadly accessible to the biological community. All talks from the 50th Anniversary Symposium will be recorded and made publically available on the DLC's YouTube channel.