Developing a vision for the future of systematics at the Society of Systematic Biologists conference

系统学处于生物多样性科学的核心，因此，如果我们要揭开地球上生命的复杂性，从分子到生态系统和其他领域，识别和催化系统学家之间以及系统学家和其他领域的科学家之间的联系机会将是至关重要的。系统学领域正在快速发展，尤其是我们现在正生活在“大数据”时代。该奖项将支持2020年1月3日至6日在佛罗里达大学举行的系统生物学家学会会议上的一系列促进活动，这些活动将产生系统学社区内优先事项的多年愿景，特别是侧重于确定当前的重大挑战和机遇，并为社区如何应对制定计划。部分讨论将集中在系统学与生物学其他领域以及地质学和计算机科学之间的相互作用。参加讨论的邀请函将张贴在会议网站上，并在方案中公布；将作出更多有针对性的外联努力，以确保广泛参与。基金将支持各种各样的与会者出席会议，特别是早期职业研究人员、学生和所有阶段的科学家，他们属于在系统学和计算生物学中代表性不足的群体。讲习班产生的产品将通过科学出版物和网站广泛和免费传播。这次会议为更广泛的系统学和生物多样性科学界提供了一次机会，讨论系统学领域的相关问题，并提供关于新方法及其理论背景的实践培训，使研究人员能够利用数据收集和分析方面的最新进展。鉴于系统学在促进比较研究和跨学科科学方面发挥的关键作用，侧重于制定对系统学未来的展望的活动尤为及时和重要。这些对话将与知识创新合作设计和实施，最大限度地为参与者提供机会，就系统学的未来进行创造性和富有成效的对话，并制定向前推进新愿景的计划。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。

Systematics lies at the heart of biodiversity science, and so identifying and catalyzing opportunities for connections among systematists, and between systematists and scientists in other fields, will be crucial if we are to unravel the complexity of life on Earth, from molecules to ecosystems and beyond. The field of systematics is advancing at a rapid pace, particularly as we are now living squarely in the age of "big data". This award will support a set of facilitated activities at the Society of Systematic Biologists meeting January 3-6, 2020 at the University of Florida that will generate a multi-year vision for priorities within the systematics community, focusing particularly on identifying current grand challenges and opportunities and developing plans for how the community can respond. Part of the discussion will focus on interactions between systematics and other fields in biology, as well as geology and computer science. Invitations to participate in the discussions will be posted on the conference website and published in the program; additional targeted outreach efforts will be made to ensure broad participation. Funds will support attendance at the meeting by a diverse range of participants, particularly early career researchers, students, and scientists at all stages who belong to groups underrepresented in systematics and computational biology. Products resulting from the workshops will be broadly and freely disseminated via scientific publications and websites.This meeting is an opportunity for the broader systematics and biodiversity science community to discuss relevant issues in the field of systematics and to provide hands-on training in new methods and their theoretical background to enable researchers to capitalize on recent advances in data collection and analysis. The activities focused on developing a vision for the future of systematics are particularly timely and important given the crucial role systematics plays in enabling comparative studies and interdisciplinary science. These conversations will be designed and implemented in collaboration with Knowinnovation, maximizing the opportunity for participants to engage in creative and productive conversations about the future of systematics and to develop plans for moving a new vision forward.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.