NRT‐URoL: BRIDGES ‐ Building Resources for InterDisciplinary training in Genomic and Ecosystem Sciences

NRT – URoL：桥梁 – 为基因组和生态系统科学跨学科培训构建资源

• 批准号: 2022055
• 负责人: Scott Saleska
• 金额: $ 299.99万
• 依托单位: University of Arizona
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-09-01 至 2025-08-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2022055&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NRT; URoL; BRIDGES; Building; Resources

The new science of ecosystem genomics integrates the large-scale science of how ecosystems work with the small-scale science of how genes and genomes of organisms interact with their environments. Ecosystem genomics promises new knowledge to sustain the biological systems that support, interact with, and are disrupted by human society, such as the agroecosystems that supply food to the world -- and, more generally, the plants, microbes, and insects that shape local, regional, and global cycles of energy, water, and carbon in both natural and managed ecosystems. The challenge that limits fulfillment of the promise of ecosystem genomics is transdisciplinary integration: fundamentally, an education and training challenge. This National Science Foundation Research Traineeship (NRT) award to the University of Arizona will address this challenge by training a diverse cadre of scientists to catalyze innovation across biological scales and science disciplines. This project will diversify and improve inclusion in science and technology fields, key to enhancing intellectual strength and fostering transdisciplinarity. The project anticipates training an intellectually and culturally diverse group of 40 MS and PhD students, including 20 NRT-funded trainees. Trainees will be recruited from a broad range of disciplines, including genomics, data science, ecosystem and environmental science, hydrology and atmospheric sciences, ecology, and plant-, insect-, and microbial biology.The BRIDGES project will implement a training program that combines (1) an interdisciplinary curriculum and a new graduate minor; (2) novel, social science-based “Cultures of Science” training (integrated into the natural science training program), based on the insight that truly transdisciplinary research is not just a technical challenge, but also one of bridging cultural differences between disciplines; (3) team-based research experiences focusing on topics such as enhancing crop resistance to drought in the southwest US (with industry partnership); integrative microbiome science, data analytics, and genomics (with a US start-up company); engagement with biomes from desert to rainforest (at UA’s Biosphere 2); leveraging multi-omics technologies (with a world-leading U.S. government research laboratory); and global challenges in the Philippines (advancing sustainable rice production) and France (testing evolution-ecology theories with precision ecosystem experiments at the world-class Ecotron facility); (4) teaching and outreach experiences including at minority-serving high schools, (5) professional development training, and (6) an Annual Institute in Ecosystem Genomics Convergence, an opportunity for NRT trainees to advance proposals, share results of team-based research experiences, and participate in interactive workshops for professional development and training in inclusivity, pedagogy, science communication, and the practice of science. Results and successful practices will be broadly disseminated to the education community as the program diversifies and implements best practices for inclusion in STEM while fostering a new generation of transdisciplinary scientists in ecosystem genomics.The NSF Research Traineeship (NRT) Program is designed to encourage the development and implementation of bold, new potentially transformative models for STEM graduate education training. The program is dedicated to effective training of STEM graduate students in high priority interdisciplinary or convergent research areas through comprehensive traineeship models that are innovative, evidence-based, and aligned with changing workforce and research needs.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.

生态系统基因组学的新科学将生态系统如何工作的大规模科学与生物体的基因和基因组如何与其环境相互作用的小规模科学相结合。生态系统基因组学承诺提供新的知识来维持支持，相互作用和被人类社会破坏的生物系统，例如为世界提供食物的农业生态系统-更普遍地说，植物，微生物和昆虫在自然和管理的生态系统中塑造了地方，区域和全球的能量，水和碳循环。限制实现生态系统基因组学承诺的挑战是跨学科的整合：从根本上说，是教育和培训的挑战。亚利桑那大学获得的国家科学基金会研究培训（NRT）奖将通过培训多样化的科学家干部来应对这一挑战，以促进跨生物尺度和科学学科的创新。该项目将使科学和技术领域多样化并改善其包容性，这是增强知识力量和促进跨学科的关键。该项目预计将培训一个由40名硕士和博士生组成的智力和文化多样性群体，其中包括20名NRT资助的受训人员。该项目将从基因组学、数据科学、生态系统和环境科学、水文和大气科学、生态学、植物、昆虫和微生物生物学等广泛的学科领域招募学员。BRIDGES项目将实施一项培训计划，该计划将结合（1）跨学科课程和新的研究生辅修课程;（2）新颖的、以社会科学为基础的“科学文化”培训（纳入自然科学培训计划），基于真正的跨学科研究不仅仅是一个技术挑战，而且是弥合学科之间文化差异的洞察力;（3）以团队为基础的研究经验，重点关注美国西南部增强作物抗旱能力等课题（与行业合作）;综合微生物组科学，数据分析和基因组学（与一家美国初创公司合作）;参与从沙漠到雨林的生物群落（在UA的生物圈2号）;利用多组学技术（拥有世界领先的美国政府研究实验室）;菲律宾面临的全球挑战（促进可持续稻米生产）和法国（在世界一流的Ecotron设施中通过精确的生态系统实验测试进化生态学理论）;（4）教学和推广经验，包括在少数民族服务的高中，（5）专业发展培训，和（6）生态系统基因组学融合年度研究所，NRT学员有机会提出建议，分享基于团队的研究经验的成果，并参加互动研讨会，以促进专业发展和包容性，教学法，科学传播和科学实践方面的培训。结果和成功的做法将广泛传播到教育界作为该计划多样化，并实施最佳实践纳入STEM，同时培养新一代的跨学科科学家在生态系统基因组学。NSF研究培训（NRT）计划旨在鼓励开发和实施大胆的，新的潜在变革性模型STEM研究生教育培训。该计划致力于通过创新的、基于证据的、与不断变化的劳动力和研究需求相一致的综合培训模式，在高优先级的跨学科或融合研究领域对STEM研究生进行有效培训。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。