National Evolutionary Synthesis Center

国家进化合成中心（NESCent）成立于2004年，旨在通过提供促进合成，协作，跨学科研究的机制来满足进化生物学社区的需求。它由北卡罗来纳州研究三角区的三所大学组成的财团管理--杜克大学、位于查佩尔山的北卡罗来纳州大学和北卡罗来纳州州立大学。该奖项将延长NESCent的支持额外五年。到目前为止，NESCent已经建立了一个充满活力的内部科学家和信息学专家社区，率先发展进化信息学，与进化生物学和教育领域的主要团体建立了广泛的合作伙伴关系，并制定了多种计划，旨在增加服务不足群体的参与。在接下来的五年里，NESCent将继续其核心使命，即实现合成研究，开发和传播进化信息学的新工具，并增加公众对进化的理解。它将继续开展正在进行的活动，同时启动新的方案，以增加其重点，建立新的科学家团队以实现综合，并加强其培训和教育活动。有针对性的举措将使新的进化综合领域成为可能，包括对人类事务重要的领域，如气候变化、健康和疾病，以及广泛的跨学科领域，如文化进化。主要倡议提出，联合收割机结合个别方案，如休假，博士后和工作组围绕一个共同的主题，以促进综合。NESCent将支持研究生奖学金，这些奖学金将提供综合培训，并为进化生物学中的主要网络基础设施倡议（如可视化）寻求新的领域。新的计划被提议招募服务不足的群体参与进化生物学，并将中心产生的科学传达给教育界和公众。该中心将与研究科学合作和网络性质的社会科学家合作，建立一种严格的方法来评估其工作，并了解其对科学进步的影响及其在通过综合促进新的、潜在的变革性成果方面的作用。NESCent的所有活动都是为了支持更广泛的进化生物学社区对合成进化生物学的追求。NESCent促进合作和数据共享文化的变革，促进科学界的发展、建设和共识，这对真正的变革性研究至关重要。NESCent在资金、物流、物理空间和信息学方面提供关键基础设施，以实现新的合成突破。它为整个进化生物学社区提供了新的网络基础设施资源。它提供了各种各样的培训和推广活动，针对一般公众，公民科学家，学生，教育工作者和执业进化生物学家。它致力于从进化生物学中代表的群体中招募个人进入其所有核心活动。NESCent产品：https://www.nescent.org/sites/public_documents/Main_Page

The National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent) was established in 2004 to serve the needs of the evolutionary biology community by providing mechanisms to foster synthetic, collaborative, cross-disciplinary studies. It is run by a consortium of three universities in the North Carolina Research Triangle - Duke University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and North Carolina State University. This award will renew NESCent's support for an additional five years. To date, NESCent has established a vibrant in-house community of scientists and informatics specialists, taken the lead in developing evo-informatics, established a wide variety of partnerships with major groups in evolutionary biology and education, and developed diverse programs targeted to increase participation of underserved groups. Over the next five years, NESCent will continue its core missions of enabling synthetic research, developing and disseminating new tools for evolutionary informatics, and increasing the public understanding of evolution. It will continue ongoing activities while initiating new programs that will increase its focus, build new teams of scientists to effect synthesis, and enhance its training and educational activities. Targeted initiatives will enable new areas of evolutionary synthesis, including areas important to human affairs such as climate change, health and disease, and areas of broad interdisciplinary scope such as cultural evolution. Major initiatives are proposed that combine individual programs such as sabbaticals, postdocs and working groups around a common topic to promote synthesis. NESCent will support graduate fellowships that will provide training in synthesis, and pursue new areas for major cyberinfrastructure initiatives in evolutionary biology such as visualization. New programs are proposed to recruit underserved groups to participate in evolutionary biology, and to communicate the science produced at the Center to the education community and general public. Collaborating with social scientists studying the nature of scientific collaborations and networks, the center will establish a rigorous approach to assess its work and understand its impact on scientific progress and its role in promoting new, potentially transformative results through synthesis. All of NESCent's activities are directed towards supporting the broader evolutionary biology community in its pursuit of synthetic evolutionary biology. NESCent promotes changes in the culture of collaboration and data sharing, and facilitates the development, building and consensus of scientific communities that are essential for truly transformative research. NESCent provides critical infrastructure, in terms of funding, logistics, physical space, and informatics to allow new synthetic breakthroughs. It provides new cyberinfrastructure resources to the entire evolutionary biology community. It offers a wide variety of training and outreach activities aimed at the general public, the citizen scientist, the student, the educator and the practicing evolutionary biologist. It devotes significant effort into recruiting individuals from groups under represented in evolutionary biology into all its core activities.NESCent Products: https://www.nescent.org/sites/public_documents/Main_Page