Spiralian White Paper Workshop; November 14-17, 2019; St. Augustine, Florida

非技术段落这个为期4天的“螺旋动物白皮书研讨会”的目标是召集一个多样化的、专注于研究动物的科学家小组，这些动物属于最大的后生动物超支系--螺旋动物。这一类包括人们熟悉的动物，如蚯蚓、水蚤、扇贝、牡蛎和章鱼，以及数千种其他不太为人所知但迷人而美丽的物种，如深海喷口蠕虫、巨蚌、裸鳃和扁虫。这一类中的许多动物对人类健康和工业都有重要影响；例如，双壳软体动物是全球食品供应链中的重要物种；寄生扁虫是常见的人类疾病媒介，管虫是船舶和码头上持久的生物污垢材料。在更基础的研究层面上，这些动物是研究生活的重要方面，如共生、再生和神经生物学的极佳模型。尽管数以百计的实验室在研究这些物种，但由于缺乏基础设施来支持研究和教学工作，沟通和协调受到阻碍。这次研讨会旨在通过召集许多该领域的领导者来设计方法来加强我们社区内的沟通、协作和基础设施，并提高我们在社区之外的工作的知名度，从而消除这一瓶颈。在邀请会议参与者时，将注意多样性和职业阶段。会议结果将以免费开放获取的文件形式发布。技术段落后生动物超分支螺旋包含14个以上的动物身体计划。成员包括软体动物、环节动物、扁形动物、线虫、腕足动物和苔藓动物等特殊类群，以及许多较小的、神秘的门。螺旋藻已被用作研究发育、基因组编辑、转基因、基因组学、共生、系统发育、系统地理学、形态学、生物矿化、神经发生、行为、再生、生态发育和进化的模式生物。然而，在这个小组中，从来没有专门研究过的会议。Spirian白皮书研讨会旨在将该领域的领导者聚集在一起，讨论他们未来的研究方向，并计划未来的研究、教学和推广活动。这次研讨会将产生一个更有凝聚力和更有组织的研究人员核心社区，与Spiralians合作，能够有效地合作和互动。会议参与者将被邀请，并特别注意多样性和职业阶段。将撰写一份白皮书，概述这些有机体作为研究和教学模型的优势和优势。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。

Non-Technical Paragraph The goal of this 4-day 'Spiralian White Paper Workshop' is to assemble a diverse and dedicated group of scientists studying animals that belong to the largest metazoan superclade, the Spiralia. This group includes familiar animals like earthworms, leeches, scallops, oysters, and octopus, as well as thousands of other less well known, but fascinating and beautiful species such as deep sea vent worms, giant clams, nudibranchs, and flatworms. Many of the animals in this group have important impacts on human health and industry; for example bivalve molluscs are important species in the global food supply chain; parasitic flatworms are common human disease vectors, and tube worms are persistent biofouling materials on ships and docks. On a more basic-research level these animals are excellent models for studying important aspects of life such as symbiosis, regeneration, and neurobiology. While many hundreds of labs work on these species, communication and coordination is hampered by the lack of infrastructure to support research and teaching efforts. This workshop aims to eliminate that bottle neck by gathering many of the leaders in the field to devise ways to increase communication, collaboration, and infrastructure within our community, and to increase the profile of our work outside the community. Attention will be paid to diversity and career stage when inviting meeting participants. The results of the meeting will be published as an a freely available open-access paper.Technical ParagraphThe metazoan super-clade Spiralia contains more than 14 animal body-plans. Members include speciose groups like molluscs, annelids, platyhelminths, nemerteans, brachiopods and bryozoans, as well as many smaller, enigmatic phyla. Spiralians have been used as model organisms to study development, genome-editing, transgenesis, genomics, symbiosis, phylogenomics, phylogeography, morphology, biomineralization, neurogenesis, behavior, regeneration, Eco-Devo, and evolution. Yet, there has never been a meeting dedicated to the research in this group. The Spiralian White Paper Workshop is designed to bring the leaders in the field together to discuss the future direction of their research and to plan future initiatives for research, teaching, and outreach. This workshop will result in a more cohesive and organized core community of researchers working with Spiralians, able to collaborate and interact effectively. Meeting participants will be invited with particular attention to diversity and to career stage. A white paper will be written to outline the strengths and advantages of these organisms as models for research and teaching.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.