Conference: Royal Society of London Meeting on Molluscan Genomics to be held September 16-17, 2019 in Milton Keynes, UK

该奖项将支持研究生和博士后研究人员出席将于2019年9月16日至17日在英国米尔顿凯恩斯的Chicheley Hall举行的伦敦皇家学会软体动物基因组学会议。 这次会议题为“智慧之珠：在软体动物基因组学方面发挥领导作用和专长”，是作为皇家学会Theo Murphy会议之一举办的，目的是将世界各地的科学家聚集在一起，介绍和讨论关于各种主题的新研究，这些主题有望揭示基因组学与软体动物生物学之间的重要联系。会议的形式是讲座和海报相结合，这将促进正式和非正式场合的科学交流。早期的职业参与者将受益于参与一般会议的发言者和讨论领导者，以及在一个特别的海报会议上展示年轻科学家的工作。 会议的科学重点将放在四个主题上：软体动物生命的多样性，软体动物基因组学的技术进步，软体动物基因组组装的挑战，以及软体动物基因组学的进展，见解和问题。 选择这些主题是为了促进在理解软体动物生物学方面取得新的重大进展，这些生物学从生态，经济和医学角度来看具有高度重要性。 协调一致地努力吸收该领域相对年轻的科学家参加，将有助于确保会议实现其目标之一，例如，培养一批新的研究人员，为推动科学发展做好准备。该会议将为研究生和博士后参与者提供一个极好的场所，包括那些来自代表性不足的群体，与来自美国和国外的研究人员分享他们的最新成果，并从该领域的专家那里获得对他们工作的反馈。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为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来支持。

This award will support attendance by graduate students and postdoctoral researchers at the Royal Society of London Meeting on Molluscan Genomics, to be held September 16-17, 2019 at Chicheley Hall in Milton Keynes, UK. This meeting, entitled "Pearls of wisdom: Synergizing leadership and expertise in molluscan genomics", is organized as one of the Royal Society's Theo Murphy meetings and is designed to bring together scientists from around the world to present and discuss new research on diverse topics that promise to reveal important links between genomics and the biology of mollusks. The format of the meeting is a combination of talks and posters, which will promote scientific exchange in both formal and informal settings. Early-career participants will benefit from engagement as speakers and discussion leaders in general sessions and as presenters in a special poster session featuring the work of junior scientists. The scientific focus of the meeting will be on four themes: diversity of molluscan life, technological advances in molluscan genomics, challenges in molluscan genome assembly, and advances, insights and problems addressable with molluscan genomics. These topics were chosen to catalyze new, significant advances in understanding the biology of mollusks, which have high importance from ecological, economic, and medical perspectives. Concerted efforts to include participants who are relatively young scientists in the field will help ensure that the conference meets one of its goals, e.g., to develop a new cadre of researchers prepared to move the science forward. The meeting will provide an excellent venue for graduate student and postdoctoral participants, including those from underrepresented groups, to share their latest results with researchers from the U.S. and abroad and to receive feedback on their work from experts in the field.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.