SGTR: The Embryo Project Training and Research

这个STS培训和研究项目是由生物学对社会的影响（IBS）计划支持的，该计划由美国国家科学基金会生物学部和SBE学部联合资助。该项目将为生命科学历史和哲学领域的研究生和博士后提供严格的跨学科培训和研究，重点是发育生物学。该项目将包括亚利桑那州立大学（ASU）的研究生以及来自其他大学的访问学生。参与者将接受历史和科学哲学跨学科学术研究方面的培训；此外，他们还将接受数字策展和数据库管理方面的培训。这个培训和研究项目的研究主题是由胚胎项目提供的，胚胎项目是亚利桑那州立大学生物与社会中心正在进行的发育生物学历史和哲学项目。胚胎计划探索发育生物学的历史、哲学、生物伦理、法律和社会方面及其与社会的关系，所有这些都以发育生物学及其历史发展为基础。它通过生物与社会中心的个别教员指导的一系列重点项目来实现这些目标。这个IBS支持的培训和研究项目的智力优势在于研究集中在发育生物学的历史和哲学项目上。培训小组的每个成员都将在现有优势的基础上发挥明确的作用。每个学生将发展一个与个人职业方向相关的重点研究项目，并在此基础上撰写一组相关文章，提交给胚胎计划百科全书进行审查，编辑和出版。该项目的更广泛的影响包括参与者学习有效地将研究成果传达给多个用户群体，并帮助开发针对K-12教师和更广泛的公众的贡献，并将利用亚利桑那州立大学的外展活动“问生物学家”和“连锁反应”。以团队为基础的方法使每个学生都有可能在目标领域脱颖而出，同时也参与项目的所有其他方面，包括外展。

This STS training and research project is supported by the Impacts of Biology on Society (IBS) initiative, which is jointly funded by NSF's BIO and SBE directorates.The project will provide rigorous interdisciplinary training and research for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows in history and philosophy of the life sciences, with a focus on developmental biology. The program will involve graduate students at Arizona State University (ASU) as well as visiting students from other universities. Participants will receive training in interdisciplinary scholarly research in history and philosophy of science; in addition, they will receive training on digital curating and database managing.The research theme for this training and research project is provided by the Embryo Project, an ongoing project in history and philosophy of developmental biology at ASU's Center for Biology and Society. The Embryo Project explores historical, philosophical, bioethical, legal, and social aspects of developmental biology and its relations to society, all with a solid grounding in developmental biology and its historical development. It pursues these goals through a set of focused projects directed by individual faculty members at the Center for Biology and Society.The Intellectual Merits of this IBS supported training and research project lie with research focused on projects within the history and philosophy of developmental biology. Each member of the training group will play a defined role building upon and beyond existing strengths. Each student will develop a focused research project related to individual career directions, and based on that will write a set of related articles to be submitted for review, editing, and publication in the Embryo Project Encyclopedia. The project's Broader Impacts include the participants learning to communicate research results effectively to multiple user groups, and helping to develop contributions targeted toward K-12 teachers and the broader public, and will take advantage of ASU's outreach activities "Ask a Biologist" and "Chain Reaction." The team-based approach makes it possible for each student to excel in a targeted area while also participating in all other aspects of the project, including outreach.