2018 Microbiology of the Built Environment GRC

2018年建筑环境GRC微生物学

• 批准号: 1832255
• 负责人: Jordan Peccia
• 金额: $ 1.4万
• 依托单位: Gordon Research Conferences
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-07-01 至 2019-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1832255&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: 2018; Microbiology; Built; Environment; GRC

Americans spend more than 90% of their time in buildings, where the majority of hazardous and beneficial microbial exposures occur, and better information of how this impacts human health is needed. This proposal requests support to help defray costs of 14 junior scientists and engineers to participate in the inaugural Gordon Research Conference on the Microbiology of the Built Environment at the University of New England in Biddeford, ME. The requested funds will provide a diverse mix of research levels, expertise, and experience to achieve specific objectives to foster and grow the emerging scientific, engineering and medical community that has assembled to study microbes and human health in buildings. This proposal benefits society by facilitating communication of scientific progress towards the protection of human wellbeing. The field of building microbiology seeks to understand how building design, occupancy, and operation impact human exposure to microbes and ultimately how these microbial exposures impact wellbeing. Environmental engineers, architects, microbial ecologists, immunologists, physicians, and epidemiologists populate this emerging field. A single conference venue is needed to exchange research results, build collaborations from researchers in disparate fields, and to foster this interdisciplinary community of researchers. Towards this, the proposal has the overall objective of bringing together researchers on the frontiers of microbiology, building engineering, and health to extend, foster, and grow the emerging scientific, engineering and medical communities to study microbes and human health in buildings. The major innovation of this conference is the focus on integrating the built environment research with microbial assessment and human health. In recent years, microbial ecology, enabled by high throughput DNA sequencing has dominated much of the field. At least 50% of all invited talks will address some aspect of health in the built environment, with the remainder addressing noveltopics on ecology and building engineering.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.

美国人90%以上的时间都在建筑物中度过，大多数有害和有益的微生物暴露都发生在建筑物中，因此需要更好地了解这对人类健康的影响。该提案要求支持，以帮助支付14名初级科学家和工程师参加首届戈登研究会议上的建筑环境的微生物学在新英格兰在比德福德，ME大学的费用。所要求的资金将提供研究水平，专业知识和经验的多样化组合，以实现特定的目标，以促进和发展新兴的科学，工程和医学界聚集在一起研究建筑物中的微生物和人类健康。这一建议有利于社会，促进科学进步的交流，以保护人类福祉。建筑微生物学领域旨在了解建筑设计，占用和操作如何影响人类接触微生物，以及最终这些微生物接触如何影响健康。环境工程师，建筑师，微生物生态学家，免疫学家，医生和流行病学家填充这个新兴领域。需要一个单一的会议场所来交流研究成果，建立来自不同领域的研究人员的合作，并培养这种跨学科的研究人员社区。为此，该提案的总体目标是将微生物学，建筑工程和健康前沿的研究人员聚集在一起，以扩展，培育和发展新兴的科学，工程和医学社区，以研究建筑物中的微生物和人类健康。本次会议的主要创新之处在于将建筑环境研究与微生物评估和人类健康相结合。近年来，由高通量DNA测序实现的微生物生态学已经主导了该领域的大部分。至少50%的受邀演讲将涉及建筑环境中健康的某些方面，其余演讲将涉及生态学和建筑工程方面的新主题。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。