CSBR:Continued Support of the Duke Lemur Center for the Study of Primate Biology and History

CSBR：杜克狐猴灵长类生物学和历史研究中心的持续支持

• 批准号: 2012668
• 负责人: Erin Ehmke
• 金额: $ 90.88万
• 依托单位: Duke University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-09-15 至 2023-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2012668&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CSBR; Continued; Support; Duke; Lemur

This award will provide support to the Duke Lemur Center (DLC), a unique living stock collection of the world's most endangered and biologically diverse primates - the lemurs of Madagascar. Lemurs are exclusive to the biodiversity hotspot of Madagascar, and due to their critically-endangered status, are not a renewable resource. Serving as a living laboratory for advancing interdisciplinary research, scholarship, and conservation, the DLC is the only place in the world where lemurs are readily available for comparative study together with associated biological samples, decades of medical records, life history data, and fossil relatives of living taxa. The diversity of the colony enables an expansive scope of science to be conducted and communicated, covering disciplines ranging from behavioral ecology, cognition, sensory communication, biomechanics, anatomy, life-history strategy, metagenomics, phylogenomics, population genetics, metabolomics, and more. In addition, the DLC is an exceptional training ground for students across academic levels. Over its 54-year history, thousands of students ranging from K-12 through postgraduate levels have been engaged in and inspired by their experiences at the DLC. The veterinary department supports educational activities via work-study opportunities and veterinary student training, including an internship for Malagasy veterinarians. Critically, the DLC is committed to conservation activities via both ex situ captive management and extensive community-based Madagascar programs. Hundreds of thousands of visitors from the general public have been exposed to the concepts of biodiversity discovery and conservation, as well as the power of biological research via their exposure to the DLC's staff, students, and collections. The overarching aim of this award is to strategically enhance the value of the DLC’s living collection through eight short-term goals that will provide significant opportunities to generate additional research and build multi-disciplinary collaborations, increase the digital availability of data from living stocks, biological tissues, and natural history collections, and increase education outreach and veterinary training activities. The first five goals directly facilitate and enhance ongoing and planned research to identify species (in particular genomic and paleontological data), understand organismal systems (in particular biomechanics, endocrinology, physiology, microbial ecology, behavior, and metabolics – including torpor), and more broadly, to understand evolutionary patterns and the links across biological scales between genotypes and phenotypes. The remaining goals facilitate outreach and education activities so that the significance of the research will be communicated to a broad audience. Colony support is central to meeting these goals for advancing key programs in biological research, education, and conservation.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.

该奖项将为杜克狐猴中心（DLC）提供支持，该中心收集了世界上最濒危和生物多样性最高的灵长类动物——马达加斯加狐猴。狐猴是马达加斯加生物多样性热点地区独有的物种，由于它们的极度濒危状态，它们不是可再生资源。作为一个促进跨学科研究、学术研究和保护的活体实验室，DLC是世界上唯一一个可以方便地与相关生物样本、数十年的医疗记录、生活史数据和现存分类群的化石亲属一起进行比较研究的地方。群体的多样性使得广泛的科学研究得以开展和交流，涵盖了行为生态学、认知学、感官交流、生物力学、解剖学、生活史策略、宏基因组学、系统基因组学、群体遗传学、代谢组学等学科。此外，DLC是跨学术水平学生的特殊训练基地。在其54年的历史中，数千名从K-12到研究生水平的学生参与并受到他们在DLC的经历的启发。兽医部门通过勤工俭学的机会和兽医学生培训，包括为马达加斯加兽医提供实习机会，支持教育活动。重要的是，DLC致力于通过非原生境圈养管理和广泛的基于社区的马达加斯加项目开展保护活动。成千上万的公众参观者通过与DLC的工作人员、学生和藏品的接触，了解了生物多样性发现和保护的概念，以及生物研究的力量。该奖项的总体目标是通过八个短期目标战略性地提高DLC生物馆藏的价值，这些目标将为产生额外的研究和建立多学科合作提供重要机会，增加生物种群、生物组织和自然历史馆藏数据的数字化可用性，并增加教育推广和兽医培训活动。前五个目标直接促进和加强正在进行的和计划中的研究，以确定物种（特别是基因组学和古生物学数据），了解生物体系统（特别是生物力学，内分泌学，生理学，微生物生态学，行为学和代谢学-包括休眠），更广泛地说，了解进化模式以及基因型和表型之间跨生物尺度的联系。其余的目标是促进外联和教育活动，以便将研究的意义传达给广泛的受众。殖民地支持是实现这些目标的核心，以推进生物研究，教育和保护的关键项目。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。