The Allied Genetics Conference

该奖项将为早期职业科学家参加2020年4月22日至26日在华盛顿特区大都市区举行的联合遗传学会议(TAGC)提供支持。这次会议将汇集4000多名美国和国际研究人员，分享推动生物研究的科学发现、技术进步和教育经验。TAGC的一个主要目标是重新整合专注于不同模式生物(如线虫、果蝇、非洲爪哇、斑马鱼等)的遗传学家的不同群体。通过共同的科学主题组织的研讨会、招贴会议、讲习班和讨论。此外，几个面向本科生到职业生涯中期科学家的职业发展和技能研讨会将促进劳动力发展和STEM领域的多样化参与。遗传学的进步开辟了新的发现途径，并产生了数十年的技术应用。现在，基因组变异分析的革命性进展为复杂特征提供了新的见解；数量遗传学有望在许多挑战上取得进展，包括确保世界粮食供应；新技术提供了对单细胞遗传变异影响的见解；基因组合成和工程扩大了可以研究和利用于材料生产的有机体的种类。这些只是遗传学领域多学科研究的几个有价值的成果。会议将通过促进讨论和促进参与者之间的合作来促进进展。该项目由分子和细胞生物科学-遗传机制和系统与合成生物学集群分部和环境生物学-进化过程集群分部联合资助。该奖项反映了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。

The award will provide support for early career scientists to attend The Allied Genetics Conference (TAGC) on April 22-26, 2020 in the Washington D.C. metro area. The conference will bring together over 4000 US and international investigators to share scientific discoveries, technological advances and educational experiences that advance biological research. A major goal of TAGC is to reintegrate distinct communities of geneticists who focus on different model organisms (e.g., C. elegans, Drosophila, Xenopus, Zebrafish, etc.) through seminars, poster sessions, workshops and discussions that are organized by shared scientific themes. In addition, several career development and skills workshops targeted toward undergraduate-to-mid-career scientists will promote workforce development and diverse participation in STEM fields.Advances in genetics have opened up new avenues of discovery and yielded technological applications for decades. Now, revolutionary advances in the analysis of genome variation are providing new insights into complex traits; quantitative genetics promise progress on many challenges, including securing the world's food supply; new technologies offer insights into the effects of genetic variation in single cells; genome synthesis and engineering expand the variety of organisms that can be studied and harnessed for materials production. These are but a few of the valuable outcomes of multi-disciplinary research in the field of genetics. The conference will promote progress by facilitating discussions and fostering collaborations among the participants.This project is jointly funded by the Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences - Genetic Mechanisms and Systems and Synthetic Biology Clusters, and by the Division of Environmental Biology - Evolutionary Processes Cluster.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.