Travel Grant to Support Participation of "Ideas Laboratory" Workshop Activity

波多黎各大学（University of Puerto Rico， b里约热内卢Piedras）获得了一笔赠款，用于支持参与一个专注于生物成像和可视化创新的“创意实验室”研讨会。增强的成像技术使现代生物学研究日益成为可能。从高分辨率显微镜系统到大陆尺度成像平台，再加上高通量数据流，为涉及图像数据的研究带来了巨大的挑战。本次研讨会的成果旨在解决和提高我们分析、解释、比较和表示生物图像数据的能力，以进行传播或荟萃分析。一系列跨学科的科学家将被邀请参加。参与者将根据描述他们的兴趣、经验和对创意实验室合作研究团队形成的期望的初步提案进行选择。这个跨学科、合作性和沉浸式的研讨会预计将形成项目构想，以解决在生物学研究中使用基于图像的数据的挑战。在创意实验室之后，选定的项目创意将被邀请向美国国家科学基金会提交完整的提案。大量的努力是为了建立一个具有不同兴趣、专业知识、隶属关系和人口统计学的参与者群体，以确保最大限度地识别适当的图像处理挑战和解决挑战的创造性项目前景。对更广泛的研究人员社区的效用具有变革性的潜力，可以提高数据分析、合成和传播的速度，使基于图像的数据广泛有用。对研究的积极影响与加强和加速研究计划的社会效益相结合。此外，在实施创意实验室项目期间，为本科生、研究生和博士后提供培训的机会，将有助于培养一批受过广泛训练的跨学科科学家骨干，他们能够将自己的专业知识应用于多个研究领域。

The University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras is awarded a grant to support participation in an "Ideas Lab" workshop focused on innovations in biological imaging and visualization. Modern biological research is increasingly enabled and empowered by enhanced imaging technologies. Very high-resolution microscopy systems to continental-scale imaging platforms combined with high-throughput data streams produce an enormous challenge for research involving image-based data. The outcomes of this workshop are aimed at addressing and improving our ability to analyze, interpret, compare, and represent biological image data for dissemination or meta-analysis. A range of interdisciplinary scientists will be invited to participate. Participants will be selected on the basis of preliminary proposals describing their interests, experience, and expectations that attend the formation of collaborative research teams at the Ideas Lab. The interdisciplinary, collaborative, and immersive workshop is expected to result in the formulation of project ideas that address challenges of using image-based data in biological research. After the Ideas Lab, selected project ideas will be invited to submit full proposals to the National Science Foundation.Substantial efforts are directed towards the constitution of a participant group with diversified interests, expertise, affiliations, and demographics to ensure the greatest potential for identifying appropriate image processing challenges and creative project prospective for solving the challenges. The utility to a broader community of researchers has transformative potential to increase the rate of data analysis, synthesis, and dissemination that make image based data broadly useful. Positive impacts on research are coupled to societal benefit of enhanced and accelerated research programs. In addition, the opportunities for undergraduate, graduate, and post-doctoral training during the conduct of the projects identified at the Ideas Lab workshop will help to foster the generation of a broadly trained cadre of interdisciplinary scientists able to apply their expertise across multiple fields of inquiry.