European Commission-United States Task Force on Environmental Biotechnology Joint

欧盟委员会-美国环境生物技术联合工作组

• 批准号: 8448440
• 负责人: Judy D Wall
• 金额: $ 1.2万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-COLUMBIA
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-09-21 至 2013-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8448440
• 关键词: Address; Advisory Committees; Americas; Area; Bioremediations; Biotechnology; Carbon; Collaborations; Communities; Congresses; Educational workshop; Environment; Environmental Microbiology; European; Future; Genetic; Goals; Health; Health protection; Human; Individual; Joints; Learning; Life Style; Mentors; Microbe; Microbial Biofilms; Missouri; Participant; Physiology; Publications; Reporting; Research; Research Personnel; Scientist; Senior Scientist; Time; Toxic Environmental Substances; Toxin; Trust; United States; Vision; base; career; falls; meetings; microbial; microbial community; microorganism interaction; posters; prevent; programs; working group

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Workshop on Microbial Community Dynamics: Cooperation and Competition to be held in the fall of 2012 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA, is an initiative of the Environmental Biotechnology Working Group of the EU-US Taskforce on Biotechnology Research, a cooperative program between the European Commission and the United States of America. The activities of the Environmental Biotechnology Working Group have as their goals to provide a forum for early career scientists from the US and EU to meet, to learn cutting edge research in the area of microbial biotechnology from world experts and to set the groundwork for future transatlantic cooperation and collaboration. Workshop presentations (20 min talks with 10 min questions) will address fundamental physiology and genetics of microbial communities that will contribute to advances in bioremediation, human health protection and treatments, bioenergy conversion and carbon sequestration. Senior scientist participants (10 EU and 10 US) will be world renowned experts who will present the current status of their fields and forecast research challenges and opportunities. Each will be responsible for identifying a promising early career scientist to participate in the workshop and present their research results in poster format. The workshop will also provide time for all attendees to engage in open discussion to identify areas where scientific advancement is needed and plan the steps necessary for realizing future research collaborations. A new feature of this workshop will be an opportunity for mentoring of the early career scientists by the senior scientists on an individual basis. Finally, a report summarizing the major scientific opportunitie, visions and challenges revealed through the presentations and discussions will be prepared for publication. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Our first line of defense against environmental toxins is the microbial world. Knowing that the predominant lifestyle of microbes in the environment is as sessile communities, understanding the interactions and functions unique to that lifestyle is of critical importance. Thus the focus of this workshop is for researchers of distinction to present the status of the dynamic interactions among communities of microbes to a cadre of promising early career scientists from the EU and the US, to provide a venue for developing trust and respect and to mentor the younger scientists in developing their careers.

描述（由申请人提供）：将于2012年秋季在美国密苏里州圣路易斯举行的微生物群落动态：合作与竞争研讨会是欧盟-美国生物技术研究工作组环境生物技术工作组的一项倡议，该工作组是欧盟委员会和美利坚合众国之间的合作计划。环境生物技术工作组的活动目标是为来自美国和欧盟的早期职业科学家提供一个论坛，以满足世界专家在微生物技术领域的前沿研究，并为未来的跨大西洋合作奠定基础。 研讨会的演讲（20分钟的谈话，10分钟的问题）将解决微生物群落的基本生理学和遗传学，这将有助于生物修复，人类健康保护和治疗，生物能源转换和碳封存的进步。高级科学家参与者（10名欧盟和10名美国）将是世界知名专家，他们将介绍各自领域的现状并预测研究挑战和机遇。 每个人将负责确定一个有前途的早期职业科学家参加讲习班，并提出他们的研究成果海报格式。 研讨会还将为所有与会者提供时间进行公开讨论，以确定需要科学进步的领域，并计划实现未来研究合作所需的步骤。 该讲习班的一个新特点是，资深科学家将有机会个别指导早期职业科学家。 最后，将编写一份报告供出版，该报告总结了通过介绍和讨论揭示的主要科学机会、愿景和挑战。 公共卫生相关性：我们抵御环境毒素的第一道防线是微生物世界。了解环境中微生物的主要生活方式是固着群落，了解这种生活方式独特的相互作用和功能至关重要。因此，本次研讨会的重点是让杰出的研究人员向来自欧盟和美国的有前途的早期职业科学家介绍微生物群落之间动态相互作用的现状，为发展信任和尊重提供场所，并指导年轻科学家发展他们的职业生涯。