The oUTCT PEN: Outwardly Mobilizing the UTCT Vertebrate Archive for Research and Training

oUTCT PEN：对外动员 UTCT 脊椎动物档案馆进行研究和培训

• 批准号: 1902242
• 负责人: Jessica Maisano
• 金额: $ 17.4万
• 依托单位: University of Texas at Austin
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-09-01 至 2024-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1902242&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: oUTCT; PEN; Outwardly; Mobilizing; UTCT

The University of Texas High-Resolution X-ray CT Facility (UTCT) was established in 1997 to make HRXCT - a direct descendant of medical CT - available to researchers in the natural sciences. Through this award, oUTCT will partner with the oVert (openVertebrate) project to make nearly nine terabytes of existing high-resolution X-ray computed tomographic (HRXCT) data publicly accessible, and to train the next generation of students in best practices for these data. Scientists from around the world have brought their most important and precious natural history specimens to UTCT to image and measure their interior features nondestructively. This application of HRXCT technology has been tremendously successful, resulting in the proliferation of scanners at institutions across the country. Over the course of two years, oUTCT will upload HRXCT data for 90 UTCT clients to MorphoSource. About 3000 specimen scans, representing nearly 1,500 fossil and extant vertebrate species, will be made available so they can be easily discovered and downloaded by everyone from scientists to artists to K-12 educators. This mobilization will be accomplished by undergraduate students employed at UTCT, who will learn the basics of HRXCT data acquisition and visualization as well as basic bioinformatics.The UTCT datasets, acquired in part via dozens of NSF grants and cited more than 18,000 times in academic publications, remain in high demand due to their broad scope, high data quality, and historical significance. This demand has been fueled in part by the public-facing Digital Library of Morphology (DigiMorph.org), an NSF-funded project online since 2002 and housed at UTCT, which serves HRXCT-derived animations for more than 1,000 biological and paleontological specimens. In the oUTCT project, UTCT and DigiMorph will partner with oVert and iDigBio, both at the University of Florida, and the MorphoSource data repository at Duke University to make this unparalleled collection of HRXCT datasets more readily discoverable and more easily repurposed. As part of the educational outreach for this project, oUTCT will also provide training to the oVert community, which spans nearly 20 universities and academic institutions, to maximize the scientific impact of that project. The UTCT will host two short courses per year, cosponsored by oVert and iDigBio, to train students and scientists associated with oVert and MorphoSource in the fundamentals of HRXCT data acquisition, visualization, analysis, and long-term management. These activities will expand the impact of the original oVert project and maximize the return on NSF?s investment in it, UTCT, DigiMorph, iDigBio, and MorphoSource.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.

德克萨斯大学高分辨率X射线CT设备(UTCT)成立于1997年，旨在使HRXCT--医学CT的直系后代--可供自然科学研究人员使用。通过这一奖项，OUTCT将与OpenVertebrate项目合作，公开近9TB的现有高分辨率X射线计算机断层扫描(HRXCT)数据，并培训下一代学生使用这些数据的最佳实践。来自世界各地的科学家将他们最重要和最珍贵的自然历史标本带到了UTCT，以无损地成像和测量它们的内部特征。HRXCT技术的这一应用取得了巨大的成功，导致扫描仪在全国各地的机构普及。在两年的时间里，OUTCT将把90个UTCT客户的HRXCT数据上传到MorPhoSource。将提供代表近1500个化石和现存脊椎动物物种的约3000个标本扫描，以便从科学家到艺术家再到K-12教育工作者的每个人都可以轻松地发现和下载它们。这一动员将由受雇于UTCT的本科生完成，他们将学习HRXCT数据采集和可视化的基础知识以及基本的生物信息学。UTCT数据集部分是通过NSF的数十项拨款获得的，在学术出版物中被引用了18,000多次，由于其范围广、数据质量高和具有历史意义，需求仍然很大。这一需求在一定程度上是由面向公众的形态数字图书馆(DigiMorph.org)推动的，这是美国国家科学基金会自2002年以来在网上资助的一个项目，设在UTCT，为1000多个生物和古生物标本提供HRXCT衍生的动画。在OUTCT项目中，UTCT和DigiMorph将与佛罗里达大学的Outt和iDigBio以及杜克大学的MorPhoSource数据库合作，使这一无与伦比的HRXCT数据集更容易被发现，也更容易被重新利用。作为这一项目的教育宣传工作的一部分，对外技术合作组织还将向跨越近20所大学和学术机构的公开社区提供培训，以最大限度地发挥该项目的科学影响。UTCT每年将举办两个短期课程，由Overt和iDigBio共同主办，以培训与Overt和MorPhoSource有关的学生和科学家有关HRXCT数据获取、可视化、分析和长期管理的基础知识。这些活动将扩大最初公开项目的影响，并最大化国家科学基金会？S对IT、UTCT、DigiMorph、iDigBio和MorphSourc的投资回报。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并已通过使用基金会的智力优势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

Inner ear biomechanics reveals a Late Triassic origin for mammalian endothermy

• DOI: 10.1038/s41586-022-04963-z
• 发表时间: 2022-07-20
• 期刊: NATURE
• 影响因子: 64.8
• 作者: Araujo, Ricardo;David, Romain;Angielczyk, Kenneth
• 通讯作者: Angielczyk, Kenneth

More than meets no eyes: Taxonomic status of a Liotyphlops (Serpentes: Anomalepididae) blindsnake from the Atlantic Rainforest

• DOI: 10.1016/j.jcz.2023.01.003
• 发表时间: 2023-01
• 期刊: Zoologischer Anzeiger
• 影响因子: 1.4
• 作者: Omar M. Entiauspe-Neto;Francisco L. Franco;C. Koch;Arthur Tiutenko;Juliana M. Wingert;Márcio Borges‐Martins

Quantifying vascularity in the frontoparietal dome of Stegoceras validum (Dinosauria: Pachycephalosauridae) from high resolution CT scans

通过高分辨率 CT 扫描量化剑角龙（恐龙：厚头龙科）额顶圆顶的血管分布

• DOI: 10.1080/02724634.2021.2036991
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology
• 影响因子: 1.4
• 作者: Nirody, Jasmine A.;Goodwin, Mark B.;Horner, John R.;Huynh, Tony L.;Colbert, Matthew W.;Smith, David K.;Evans, David C.
• 通讯作者: Evans, David C.

New frontiers in imaging, anatomy, and mechanics of crocodylian jaw muscles

• DOI: 10.1002/ar.25011
• 发表时间: 2022-06-20
• 期刊: ANATOMICAL RECORD-ADVANCES IN INTEGRATIVE ANATOMY AND EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY
• 影响因子: 2
• 作者: Holliday, Casey M.;Sellers, Kaleb C.;Colbert, Matthew W.
• 通讯作者: Colbert, Matthew W.

Contrasting Patterns of Sensory Adaptation in Living and Extinct Flightless Birds

• DOI: 10.3390/d13110538
• 发表时间: 2021-10
• 期刊: Diversity
• 作者: P. Johnston;Kieren J. Mitchell