CSBR: NATURAL HISTORY: DIGITIZING AND CONSERVING SPECIMENS IN THE MANTER LABORATORY OF PARASITOLOGY

CSBR：自然历史：曼特寄生虫学实验室的标本数字化和保存

• 批准号: 1756397
• 负责人: Scott Gardner
• 金额: $ 50万
• 依托单位: University of Nebraska-Lincoln
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-09-01 至 2024-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1756397&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CSBR; NATURAL; HISTORY; DIGITIZING; CONSERVING

The Harold W. Manter Laboratory of Parasitology (HWML) at the University of Nebraska is an international biological resource that supports research and education in ecology, biological diversity, and infectious disease. Housing millions of specimens from all continents and oceans, the HWML is a hub for the study of parasites, and enables scientists to make biological predictions, such as how environmental change might affect parasite distributions, which can impact human health, agriculture, forestry and other societal interests. This collection also serves as educational resources to make scientific research accessible to the public through virtual field trips and museum exhibitions. This project aims to secure and make digitally available two recently acquired parasite collections, and to purchase a new freezer to house the HWML's frozen tissue collection of parasites from wild animals, the largest worldwide. This award will enable the HWML to continue to serve as an international resource in parasitology and will also support research opportunities in the collections for undergraduate students and local science teachers, and the development of biodiversity teaching resources.The HWML's mission is to conduct and support research in parasite systematics, taxonomy, and biodiversity; foster studies in parasite biodiversity; provide state-of-the-art laboratory facilities and resources for parasite genomic, genetic, and phylogenetic research; and promote long-term conservation and utilization of parasite specimens in the laboratory's care. This project will complete full integration of two recently acquired collections into the HWML's holdings: the Hopla flea collection, which contains more than 300 species of fleas worldwide, and the Gettinger collection, a collection of ectoparasites from Paraguay that includes host-parasite data from several thousand mammals. Funding will also allow the HWML to replace a currently failing freezer in the Parasite Genomic Research Facility, thus securing long-term storage for the largest frozen tissue collection of parasites from wild animals anywhere. These collections will be digitized and made available via Arctos, an online database for biodiversity and natural history collections, and shared with iDigBio (iDigBio.org). Researchers worldwide will be able to access and analyze new parasite data to gain insight into biological diversity, species rates, and general evolutionary processes. Finally, funding will support research opportunities in the HWML for undergraduates and Nebraska teachers and the development of resources to support educators in teaching about biodiversity. The expected outcome is that scientists will have improved capability to understand, anticipate, and respond to the outcomes of accelerating environmental change, and to leverage museum occurrence records to estimate geographic ranges of parasites.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

哈罗德W。内布拉斯加大学的曼特寄生虫学实验室（HWML）是一个国际生物资源，支持生态学，生物多样性和传染病的研究和教育。 HWML拥有来自各大洲和海洋的数百万个标本，是寄生虫研究的中心，使科学家能够进行生物学预测，例如环境变化如何影响寄生虫分布，从而影响人类健康，农业，林业和其他社会利益。 这些收藏品还作为教育资源，通过虚拟实地考察和博物馆展览向公众提供科学研究。 该项目旨在确保最近获得的两个寄生虫标本的安全并以数字方式提供，并购买一个新的冷冻机，以容纳HWML的野生动物寄生虫冷冻组织标本，这是世界上最大的标本。 该奖项将使HWML继续作为寄生虫学的国际资源，并将支持本科生和当地科学教师的收藏研究机会，以及生物多样性教学资源的开发。HWML的使命是开展和支持寄生虫系统学，分类学和生物多样性的研究;促进寄生虫生物多样性的研究;为寄生虫基因组、遗传和系统发育研究提供最先进的实验室设施和资源;并促进实验室护理中寄生虫标本的长期保护和利用。该项目将完成两个最近获得的收藏品的全面整合到HWML的控股：Hopla跳蚤收藏品，其中包含全球300多种跳蚤，以及Gettinger收藏品，来自巴拉圭的体外寄生虫收藏品，其中包括数千种哺乳动物的宿主-寄生虫数据。资金还将使HWML能够更换寄生虫基因组研究设施中目前故障的冷冻机，从而确保长期储存来自任何地方的野生动物的最大冷冻寄生虫组织。 这些收藏品将数字化，并通过Arctos（一个生物多样性和自然历史收藏品的在线数据库）提供，并与iDigBio（iDigBio.org）共享。 世界各地的研究人员将能够访问和分析新的寄生虫数据，以深入了解生物多样性，物种比率和一般进化过程。 最后，资金将支持HWML为本科生和内布拉斯加州教师提供的研究机会，并开发资源以支持教育工作者进行生物多样性教学。 预期的结果是科学家将有更好的能力来理解，预测和应对加速环境变化的结果，并利用博物馆的发生记录来估计寄生虫的地理范围。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为是值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估的支持。

项目成果

Building an integrated infrastructure for exploring biodiversity: field collections and archives of mammals and parasites

• DOI: 10.1093/jmammal/gyz048
• 发表时间: 2019-04-24
• 期刊: JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY
• 影响因子: 1.7
• 作者: Galbreath, Kurt E.;Hoberg, Eric P.;Hope, Andrew G.
• 通讯作者: Hope, Andrew G.