WORKSHOP:"Molecular, Functional, and Evolutionary Approachesto Stress and Inducible Stress Responses: Bridging the Gaps"(To be held at NSF May 14-15, 1996)

提案：9602018 PI：Feder 本次研讨会探讨了生物科学研究问题的多学科方法，包括目前对多学科性的限制以及如何最好地促进这种综合研究。 该研讨会使用由环境扰动引起的生物反应这一主题作为科学重点，因为对这一主题的研究阐明了分子、功能（例如，生态生理学）和进化方法可以合并和整合。 组织者和25名在这一广泛领域具有专业知识的参与者将参加这次活动，但他们代表了不同的兴趣、职业阶段和背景。 将考虑两个主要组成部分：（1）科学组成部分，与会者将考虑如何将理解生物体诱导反应的离散方法结合起来，以促进科学进步;（2）科学政策/基础设施/教育组成部分，与会者将考虑科学研究人员职业生涯中的要素（例如，培养对科学的兴趣，博士前和博士后培训，初出茅庐和成熟的研究人员的活动）以及与他们互动的正式结构（例如，学术界、工业界、政府、专业组织）阻碍或促进多学科研究。讲习班最后将就国家科学基金会在促进多学科研究和培训方面的潜在作用向该基金会提出一系列建议。

Proposal: 9602018 PI: Feder This workshop examines multidisciplinary approaches to research problems in the biological sciences, including the present constraints on multidiscplinarity and how best to facilitate such integrative research. The workshop uses the topic of biological responses that are induced by environmental perturbations as a scientific focus because research on this topic exemplifies how molecular, functional (e.g., ecophysiological), and evolutionary approaches can be merged and integrated. The organizers and 25 participants with expertise in this broad area, but representing a diversity of interests, career stages and backgrounds will participate in the event. Two major components will be considered: (1) A scientific component, in which the participants would consider how discrete approaches to understanding inducible responses in organisms can be combined and synthesized to facilitate scientific progress; and (2) A science policy/infrastructure/education component in which the participants would consider whether the elements in the careers of scientific researchers (e.g., development of interest in science, predoctoral and postdoctoral training, activities of beginning and established researchers) and in the formal structures with which they interact (e.g., academia, industry, government, professional organizations) impede or facilitate multidisciplinary research. The workshop will culminate in a series of recommendations to the National Science Foundation with respect to its potential role in the facilitation of multidisciplinary research and training.