IRCN: Coordinating research on bark beetle - fungal interactions in South Africa and the U.S.

IRCN：协调南非和美国树皮甲虫与真菌相互作用的研究

• 批准号: 1834264
• 负责人: Jiri Hulcr
• 金额: $ 49.66万
• 依托单位: University of Florida
• 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: 2018-09-01 至 2024-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1834264&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: IRCN; Coordinating; research; bark; beetle

Forests and tree industries around the world are increasingly threatened by invasive pests and diseases, such as wood boring bark beetles and their associated fungi. A better understanding of the mutually beneficial -- or symbiotic -- relationship between bark beetles and fungi is critical for the long-term health and sustainability of global forests. Currently, however, bark beetle-fungal symbioses are poorly understood resulting in a limited number of strategies to control both the spread and impact of bark beetles in forests worldwide. This International Research Coordination Network (IRCN) project, co-funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and South African National Research Foundation (NRF), will coordinate the research activities of forest pathologists, entomologists and mycologists throughout South Africa and the U.S. -- two of the world's most productive forest health research communities. The IRCN will connect 14 institutions, represented by 22 individual researchers, to critically assess how bark beetles and their fungal associates are currently studied and how this research could be improved. U.S. and South African undergraduates and graduate students will be trained broadly as part of a laboratory exchange program to enhance research coordination between the two countries. More than half of the project participants are under-represented in science, including females, minorities, and early-career scientists. Natural resource managers and the public will be engaged to help formulate better management strategies based on newly synthesized data among the network members, and information on bark beetle - fungal symbioses will be disseminated broadly via online videos and other media. This U.S. - South African IRCN project aims to re-evaluate, invigorate and coordinate research on bark beetle - fungus symbioses. Specific aims of the Network include adoption of new data standards to improve mobility of vector-fungus association data, and enhanced sharing of databases among established repositories to facilitate synthesis of diverse bark beetle and fungal data. Exchanges among participating laboratories will facilitate the introduction of new technologies across the Research Network and help reconcile conflicting bark beetle - fungal symbiosis paradigms. The Network will also maintain a publicly available social media portal discussing research on bark beetle/fungal symbioses and publish a synthesis for the global community of researchers studying symbioses.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.

世界各地的森林和树木工业日益受到入侵性害虫和疾病的威胁，如钻木小蠹及其相关真菌。 更好地了解小蠹和真菌之间的互利-或共生-关系对于全球森林的长期健康和可持续性至关重要。然而，目前对小蠹-真菌共生关系的了解很少，导致控制小蠹在全球森林中传播和影响的策略数量有限。 这个国际研究协调网络（IRCN）项目由美国国家科学基金会（NSF）和南非国家研究基金会（NRF）共同资助，将协调南非和美国的森林病理学家，昆虫学家和真菌学家的研究活动-世界上两个最富有成效的森林健康研究社区。 IRCN将连接14个机构，由22名研究人员代表，以批判性地评估目前如何研究树皮甲虫及其真菌同伙，以及如何改进这项研究。 美国和南非的本科生和研究生将接受广泛的培训，作为实验室交流计划的一部分，以加强两国之间的研究协调。 超过一半的项目参与者在科学领域的代表性不足，包括女性，少数民族和早期职业科学家。自然资源管理人员和公众将参与进来，根据网络成员之间新综合的数据帮助制定更好的管理战略，关于树皮甲虫-真菌共生的信息将通过在线视频和其他媒体广泛传播。 这个美国-南非IRCN项目旨在重新评估，振兴和协调树皮甲虫-真菌共生研究。该网络的具体目标包括采用新的数据标准，以提高病媒-真菌关联数据的流动性，并加强已建立的数据库之间的数据库共享，以促进各种树皮甲虫和真菌数据的综合。 参与实验室之间的交流将有助于在整个研究网络中引入新技术，并有助于调和相互冲突的树皮甲虫-真菌共生模式。该网络还将维护一个公开的社交媒体门户网站，讨论树皮甲虫/真菌共生研究，并为全球研究共生的研究人员发布一份综合报告。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。

项目成果

Bark beetle mycobiome: collaboratively defined research priorities on a widespread insect-fungus symbiosis

• DOI: 10.1007/s13199-020-00686-9
• 发表时间: 2020-06-03
• 期刊: SYMBIOSIS
• 影响因子: 2.5
• 作者: Hulcr, Jiri;Barnes, Irene;Villari, Caterina
• 通讯作者: Villari, Caterina