PIRE: Genetics of Invasive Species Exchanged Between the Southeastern U.S. and China, Taiwan and Hong Kong

OISE-0730218（Mauricio;格鲁吉亚大学研究基金会）PIRE：美国东南部与中国大陆、台湾和香港之间的入侵物种交换的遗传学研究摘要随着全球贸易的兴起和显著的地理相似性，东南亚和美国东南部已经成为在各自引入的栖息地中具有入侵性的物种交换的主要渠道。 这种生物入侵代表了地球仪上一个紧迫的保护问题。种群遗传学可以为了解入侵物种的地理分布提供强有力的法医学工具，包括入侵历史和原生范围内可能的起源地。由于很难在国家之间转移潜在的入侵物种，PIRE计划使我们能够在美国的研究人员之间建立合作，中国、香港和台湾。通过格鲁吉亚大学、格鲁吉亚南方大学、美国农业部南方研究站、南京大学、南京林业大学、台湾国立大学、中央研究院、香港大学和中国科学院之间的合作，该奖项支持研究为十种目标植物和病原体物种提供强大的地理和人口基线：一半原产于东南亚，在美国入侵，一半原产于美国东南部，在中国，台湾和香港入侵。为了支持PIRE建立强大和可持续的国际合作伙伴关系，并发展多元化，全球参与的美国科学和工程劳动力的目标，该项目将实施一个多层次的计划，以培养一代致力于在美国和中国大陆、台湾和香港继续从事入侵物种研究的学生和教师。该补助金结合了本科留学经验和研究生培训计划，以建立一个多层次的管道发展计划。该计划让本科生通过向他们介绍中国语言和文化，然后在中国大陆，台湾和香港完成实地和实验室工作，为亚洲做好准备。鼓励这些本科生进入生命科学博士课程。研究生进入管道，并给予语言和研究工具，在中国大陆，台湾和香港进行工作。博士后和教师最后进入管道，但PIRE计划为他们提供联系人，以启动并继续与国际合作伙伴的合作。在美国和国外的社区和K-12学校的推广是该计划的一个关键组成部分。该项目与生物科学理事会环境生物学部门共同资助。

OISE-0730218 (Mauricio; University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc.)PIRE: Genetics of Invasive Species Exchanged Between the Southeastern U.S. and China, Taiwan and Hong KongABSTRACTWith the rise of global commerce and with remarkable biogeographic similarities, southeastern Asia and the southeastern United States have become a major conduit for exchange of species that have become invasive in their respective introduced habitats. Such biological invasions represent a pressing conservation problem across the globe. Population genetics can provide a powerful forensic tool for understanding the geographic distribution of invasive species, including the history of invasion and the likely sites of origin within the native range. Since it is difficult to move potentially invasive species between countries, the PIRE program allows us to establish a collaboration among researchers in the U.S., China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. Through a partnership between the University of Georgia, Georgia Southern University, the USDA-Southern Research Station, Nanjing University, Nanjing Forestry University, Taiwan National University, Academia Sinica, the University of Hong Kong and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, this award supports research to provide a robust phylogeographic and demographic baseline for ten target plant and pathogen species: half native to southeastern Asia and invasive in the U.S. and half native to the southeastern U.S. and invasive in China, Taiwan and Hong Kong.In support of PIRE goals to build a robust and sustainable international partnership and to develop a diverse, globally-engaged U.S. science and engineering workforce, this PIRE program will implement a multi-tiered program to develop a generation of students and faculty committed to continuing work on invasive species in the U.S. and China, Taiwan and Hong Kong. The grant combines an undergraduate study abroad experience and a graduate training program to establish a multi-tiered pipeline development program. The program gets undergraduates prepared and excited about Asia by introducing them to Chinese language and culture, then completing field and laboratory work in China, Taiwan and Hong Kong. Those undergraduates are encouraged to enter doctoral programs in the life sciences. Graduate students enter the pipeline and are given the language and research tools to conduct work in China, Taiwan and Hong Kong. Postdocs and faculty enter the pipeline last, but the PIRE program provides them with the contacts to initiate and continue collaborations with international partners. Outreach to the community and K-12 schools in the U.S. and abroad is a key component of the program.This project is co-funded with the Division of Environmental Biology in the Directorate for Biological Sciences.