US-EC Workshop on Marine Genomics: Next Generation Scientists for Next Generation Sequencing, October 10-12, 2010, Washington, DC

这笔赠款将支持一个讲习班，重点是根据美国-欧洲委员会生物技术研究工作组的建议，开发海洋微生物基因组学培训课程的想法。来自美国和欧洲的顶尖科学家将于2010年10月在华盛顿会面。这些专家将讨论现代基因组方法在海洋微生物学方面取得的最新科学进展，以及在基因组技术快速发展的情况下继续取得进展的机遇和挑战。对科学和技术状况的分析将为培养下一代科学家的最有效方法提供框架，这些科学家将利用这些进步并应对技术挑战，这是这一重要科学领域持续进步的先决条件。研讨会将研究用于处理大量DNA序列信息的计算方法，当前和未来的DNA测序方法以及用于将基因和基因组序列信息与相关微生物的功能特性联系起来的工具。介绍和讨论的结果将是一份讲习班报告，概述关键问题并提供每届会议的建议。它还将包括对海洋微生物基因组分析主题的高级培训课程的基本描述。更广泛的影响：这笔全部拨款的重点是满足美国和欧盟委员会继续在海洋微生物基因组学领域合作的需要，以加快基础科学和生物技术的进步。

This grant will support a workshop focused on developing ideas for a training course in marine microbial genomics, consistent with recommendations of the US-European Commission Taskforce on Biotechnology Research. Leading scientists from the US and Europe will meet in October, 2010 in Washington, DC. These experts will discuss recent scientific progress in marine microbiology that has accrued from modern genomic approaches, as well as opportunities and challenges for continued progress given the fast pace of genome technology advances. Analyses of the state of the science and technology will then frame consideration of the most effective ways to train next-generation scientists who will capitalize on these advances and tackle the technological challenges, a prerequisite for continued progress in this important scientific area. Workshop sessions will examine the computational methods used to process large amounts of DNA sequence information, current and future DNA sequencing methodologies and tools being used to connect gene and genome sequence information with functional properties of the relevant microbes. The outcome of the presentations and discussions will be a workshop report that provides an overview of critical issues and provides recommendations from each session. It will also include a basic description of an advanced training course on the topic of genomic analyses of marine microbes.Broader impacts: this entire grant is focused on the needs of the United States and the European Commission to continue to work together in the field of marine microbial genomics in order to expedite advances in basic sciences and in biotechnology.