Physiological Genomics Workshop in St. Louis, MO, April 2020: Finding and Mending the Knowledge Gaps between Plant Physiology and Plant Functional Genetics/Genomics

为期两天的研讨会将于2020年4月在密苏里州圣路易斯举行，讨论如何应对植物生理学和遗传学/基因组学交叉领域新出现的科学挑战。目前的技术进步使测量植物特性和对数千个植物样本进行排序的新方法成为可能。这些技术很复杂，研究人员的社区也围绕着它们成长起来。为了真正理解驱动植物生长的复杂相互作用，科学家必须能够跨学科工作。协助举办的讲习班将致力于确定成功的战略，将研究界聚集在一起，并将解决科学进步面临的挑战和克服研究进展障碍的战略。研讨会将包括来自不同职业阶段、机构类型、地理位置、性别和种族背景的学者，并将形成一份白皮书，总结讨论和结论。要了解植物与环境的相互作用，需要了解信息如何从基因组到细胞表型，再到决定生物反应和生态系统结果的组织水平反应。从历史上看，这些问题都是由不同的领域来解决的，例如基因组学/遗传学和生理学。为了在领域之间形成联系，重要的是要了解研究人员试图弥合这些差距所遇到的文化、制度和人的障碍是什么。为了解决其中的一些差距，将召集在植物生理学和遗传学/基因组学问题领域工作的科学家举办一次研讨会，以(1)确定成功的战略，利用植物生理学、遗传学和基因组学来了解植物如何响应环境；(2)确定可以通过跨学科方法弥合的科学和技术差距；(3)确定需要克服的交流和合作挑战；以及(4)提出推进跨学科领域的解决方案和方向。为了传播这些结果，将编写一份白皮书来总结这些发现，并在植物学会期刊上发表。白皮书的编写和分发预计将支持跨学科对话，以推动解决方案的制定。研讨会将包括来自不同职业阶段、机构类型、地理位置、性别和种族背景的学者。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并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。

A two-day workshop will be convened in St. Louis Missouri in April 2020 to discuss ways to address emerging scientific challenges at the intersection of plant physiology and genetics/genomics. Current advances in technology have enabled novel approaches to measure properties of plants and to sequence thousands of plant samples. These techniques are complex and communities of researchers have grown around them. To truly make sense of the complicated interactions that drive plant growth, scientists must be able to work across the disciplines. The facilitated workshop will be devoted to identifying successful strategies to bring research communities together, and will address challenges to scientific progress and strategies to overcome barriers to research progress. The workshop will include scholars from diverse career stages, institutional types, geographical locations, gender, and ethnic backgrounds and will result in a white paper summarizing discussions and conclusions.Understanding how plants interact with the environment requires understanding how information moves from the genome to cellular phenotypes to tissue level responses that determine organismal responses and ecosystem outcomes. Historically, these questions have been addressed by separate fields, such as genomics/genetics and physiology. In order to form links between fields, it is important to understand what are the cultural, institutional and human obstacles that researchers trying to bridge these gaps are encountering. To address some of these gaps, a workshop will be convened of scientists working across the plant physiology and genetics/genomics problem space to (1) identify successful strategies that use plant physiology, genetics and genomics to understand how plants respond to the environment; (2) identify scientific and technology gaps that could be bridged by interdisciplinary approaches; (3) identify communication and collaboration challenges to overcome; and (4) propose solutions and directions to advance the interdisciplinary field. In order to disseminate these results, a whitepaper will be written to summarize the findings and published in a plant society journal. The development and dissemination of the whitepaper is anticipated to support cross-disciplinary dialogue that advance the development of solutions. The workshop will include scholars from diverse career stages, institutional types, geographical locations, gender, and ethnic backgrounds.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.