COBRE Phase III: Transitional Center for Research on Processes in Evolution

爱达荷州大学的生物医学研究卓越中心是在生物信息学和进化研究所（IBEST）的主持下组织的。在过去的10年里，COBRE的资助使IBEST研究人员能够在计算和进化生物学方面进行前沿的跨学科研究，并指导早期教师开发具有全国竞争力的独立资助的研究项目。毕业于独立资助的教师仍然在IBEST的高度协作社区。作为该COBRE的一部分建立的计算资源核心和基因组学资源核心设施为研究人员提供多种先进仪器和计算资源以及技术支持。这些核心设施目前支助28个获得资助的项目。因此，COBRE的资助产生了预期的效果，加强了该机构的生物医学研究能力，并培养了对外部资金具有竞争力所需的支持性研究环境。其中许多项目是生物学家和数学家、统计学家或计算机科学家之间的跨学科合作，需要两个核心设施的资源。 第三阶段有三个具体目标： 1.完成这两个研究核心，并将其过渡到可持续发展，以继续支持IBEST的研究。 2.支持研究试点项目计划、技术获取赠款以及旅行和合作赠款。前两个项目将使教师能够生成初步数据，使他们在外部资金方面更具竞争力，第三个项目将使他们能够发起和/或发展支持研究的合作。 3.通过新的战略计划，通过IBEST内部的频繁互动和与外部科学界的广泛互动来确定科学机会。 COBRE资助的最后阶段，沿着IBEST作为战略研究所的机构投资，将确保我们的自我可持续性，并保持基础设施，气候，资助一个充满活力的生物医学研究计划所需的人员，重点是进化过程。

The Center of Biomedical Research Excellence for Research on Processes in Evolution at the University of Idaho is organized under the auspices of the Institute for Bioinformatics and Evolutionary Studies (IBEST). For the past 10 years, COBRE funding enabled IBEST investigators to conduct leading-edge interdisciplinary research in computational and evolutionary biology and to mentor early faculty to develop nationally competitive, independently-funded research programs. Faculty who graduate to independent funding remain in the highly collaborative community of IBEST. The Computational Resources Core and Genomics Resources Core facilities established as part of this COBRE provide a diverse array of advanced instrumentation and computational resources, as well as technical support to investigators. These core facilities currently support 28 funded projects. Thus, COBRE funding has had the intended effect of strengthening the institution's biomedical research capabilities and cultivating the supportive research environment needed to be competitive for external funding. Many of these projects are interdisciplinary collaborations between biologists and mathematicians, statisticians or computer scientists, and require the resources of both core facilities. Phase III has three Specific Objectives: 1. To complete these two research cores and to transition them to sustainability in a way that will continue to support the research of IBEST. 2. To support a Research Pilot Project Program, Technology Access Grants, and Travel and Collaboration Grants. The first two programs will enable faculty to generate preliminary data that will make them more competitive for external funding, and the third will enable them to initiate and/or develop collaborations that support research. 3. Through a new Strategic Plan, identify scientific opportunities through frequent interactions within IBEST and extensive interactions with the external scientific community. This final phase of COBRE funding, along with institutional investments in IBEST as a strategic Institute, will ensure our self-sustainability and maintain the infrastructure, climate, funding an personnel needed for a vibrant biomedical research program focused on processes of evolution.