RCN: EDEN (Evo-Devo-Eco Network): A research coordination network to promote technique and community development across the Evo-Devo-Eco field

在过去的几十年里，进化生物学、发育生物学和生态学等传统领域在概念和技术上都变得更加紧密。现代进化和生态发育生物学的新综合领域，或Evo-Devo-Eco，就是这种结果。Evo-Devo-Eco的进展在很大程度上依赖于最初为用于传统实验室模式生物而开发的技术的转移和改造，以便将它们应用于新的和新兴的模式生物。目前，网络的不足经常导致从事非传统但有希望的模型生物体的实验室在开发用于其系统的新协议时低效和无意地重复工作。此外，技术、思想和知识的交流有着巨大的潜力，不仅可以从已建立的模型流向鲜为人知的系统，还可以从鲜为人知的系统暴露出的独特生物学流向传统模型。该项目将创建一个新的研究协调网络，称为EDEN(Evo-Devo-Eco Network)。伊甸园将促进新的支持网络和实验室之间的合作，这些实验室目前没有享受传统模式物种的大型社区资源。EDEN的四项主要活动将是：(1)促进致力于新兴模型系统的实验室之间积极交流工具和技术；(2)培训Evo-Devo-Eco领域的本科生，重点是新兴模型系统；(3)记录在这些生物体中使用和开发的工具和技术，并在网上公开供未来用户使用；(4)通过会议资助和赞助讲习班，促进整个Evo-Devo-Eco社区的互动。该网络的广告战略和筹资优先事项旨在最大限度地提高代表不足群体的参与者的可及性。伊甸园核心网络小组的性别、种族和职业阶段的多样性将成为进一步增加下一代研究人员多样性的一个明显积极的起点。

Over the last several decades, the traditional fields of evolutionary biology, developmental biology and ecology have moved closer together both conceptually and technically. The newly synthetic field of modern Evolutionary and Ecological Developmental Biology, or Evo-Devo-Eco, is the result. Advances in Evo-Devo-Eco rely heavily on transferring and adapting technologies originally developed for use with traditional laboratory model organisms, in order to apply them to new and emerging model organisms. Presently, insufficient networking often leads laboratories working on non-traditional, yet promising, model organisms, to inefficiently and inadvertently duplicate effort when developing new protocols for use in their systems. Moreover, there is enormous untapped potential for the exchange of techniques, ideas, and knowledge to flow not just from established models to lesser-known systems, but also from the unique biology exposed by lesser-known systems to traditional models. This project will create a new research coordination network called EDEN (Evo-Devo-Eco Network). EDEN will facilitate new support networks and collaborations among laboratories that do not currently enjoy the large community resources of traditional model species. The four major activities of EDEN will be: (1) fostering active interchange of tools and techniques among labs working on emerging model systems; (2) training undergraduates in the field of Evo-Devo-Eco with a focus on emerging model systems; (3) documenting the tools and techniques used and developed in these organisms, and making them publicly available online for future users; and (4) promoting interactions across the Evo-Devo-Eco community through conference funding and the sponsoring of workshops. The advertising strategies and funding priorities of the network are designed to maximize accessibility by participants of underrepresented groups. The gender, ethnic, and career stage diversity of the EDEN core network group will serve as a visibly positive starting point for further increasing the diversity of the next generation of researchers.