Developing an integrative approach to phenomics for industrial biomedical and environmental applications

开发用于工业生物医学和环境应用的表型组学综合方法

• 批准号: MR/Y011724/1
• 负责人: Oliver Tills
• 金额: $ 75.88万
• 依托单位: Plymouth University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Fellowship
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2024 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=MR%2FY011724%2F1
• 关键词: Developing; integrative; approach; phenomics; industrial

Advances in understanding complex biological responses have never been so urgent given the unprecedented rates of local and global environmental change, and the increasing pressures on biological systems. Embryos are extremely sensitive to environmental change and exhibit incredible diversity and dynamism in spatial, functional and temporal phenotypic change. They therefore present a unique system for pushing the boundaries of how we measure complex biological responses to an increasingly complex and anthropogenically impacted natural world. The first four years of my FLF supported the development of entirely new technologies and approaches for measuring environmental sensitivity during the earliest stages of life, in marine and freshwaters. The Fellowship supported moving research away from traditional manual phenotypic approaches to measuring the biology of developing animals at their most dynamic, and moving towards integrative, data-rich and scalable methods of measuring whole-organismal biological responses. I will use a three year extension to my FLF, broadly in line with my initial Fellowship, to drive impact from the innovation to date by: i) Establishing the capability for predictive phenomics in developing organisms, to enable biological responses to be predicted via timeseries models trained using deep learning on the basis of the previous developmental phenotype. This will have broad relevance for predicting sensitivity, artificially selecting for particular outcomes in later life and enabling dynamic feedback loops within experiments to assess the time-specific effects of different environmental drivers. ii) Creating digital twinning between laboratory and field instruments to enable dynamic environmental synchronisation of field conditions in the laboratory to assess the real-time biological impacts of simulated environmental events in the field. iii) Extending the user base of the EmbryoPhenomics instrumentation and research approaches to different research areas, continents and sectors. Working with local user groups and the open-source hardware community we will extend the applicability of these approaches to the challenges of different stakeholders. Establishing a global community of users will support environmental sensitivity experiments being run in parallel globally, but will also enable a concerted effort to document the visible physiological diversity of organisms during their early life, via timelapse bioimaging. The resulting video will be maintained in the first open-source repository of developing organisms and will be invaluable to both researchers, but also as a resource for shining a light on the hidden world of biological development, within the context of global environmental change.

鉴于当地和全球环境变化的速度前所未有，生物系统面临的压力越来越大，在理解复杂的生物反应方面取得的进展从未如此紧迫。胚胎对环境变化极其敏感，在空间、功能和时间表型变化上表现出令人难以置信的多样性和动态化。因此，它们提供了一种独特的系统，用于推动我们如何测量对日益复杂和受人类影响的自然世界的复杂生物反应的界限。在我的FLF的头四年，我支持开发全新的技术和方法，在生命的早期阶段，在海洋和淡水中测量环境敏感性。该研究金支持将研究从传统的人工表型方法转移到最具活力的发育动物的生物学测量上，并转向综合的、数据丰富的和可扩展的测量整体组织生物反应的方法。我将使用我的FLF的三年延长，与我最初的研究员大致一致，通过以下方式推动创新迄今的影响：i)建立在发育中的生物体中预测表型组学的能力，使生物反应能够通过在先前发育表型的基础上使用深度学习训练的时间序列模型来预测。这将具有广泛的相关性，用于预测敏感性，人为选择以后生活中的特定结果，并在实验中实现动态反馈循环，以评估不同环境驱动因素的特定时间影响。2)在实验室和实地仪器之间建立数字配对，使实验室内实地条件的动态环境同步，以评估实地模拟环境事件的实时生物影响。三)将胚胎表型组学仪器和研究方法的用户基础扩大到不同的研究领域、大陆和部门。与当地用户团体和开源硬件社区合作，我们将扩大这些方法的适用性，以应对不同利益攸关方的挑战。建立全球用户社区将支持在全球范围内并行进行的环境敏感性实验，但也将使人们能够共同努力，通过时间推移生物成像记录生物早期生命中可见的生理多样性。产生的视频将保存在第一个开放源码的发展中生物体储存库中，对研究人员来说将是无价的，但也是在全球环境变化的背景下揭示隐藏的生物发展世界的资源。