Meeting: A Decade of Ecological Genomics: The Tenth Annual Ecological Genomics Symposium, October 26-28, 2012, Kansas City, MO

十年前，生态基因组学还是一个处于起步阶段的领域。创建该领域是为了在全基因组范围内全面了解生物用来应对不断变化的生态和环境条件的遗传机制。在过去的十年里，生态基因组学已经成长为一门多产的学科，通过整合生态学、进化论、基因组学和生理学等领域的新的跨学科研究，在机制层面上解决基本问题。该会议奖通过支持由堪萨斯州立大学生态基因组研究所于2012年10月26日至28日在密苏里州堪萨斯城广场上的万豪酒店举办的第十届年度生态基因组学研讨会，帮助推动田间生态基因组学的发展。第十届生态基因组学年会将实现两个主要目标。首先，这次研讨会为传播世界上迅速发展和多样化的生态基因组学研究提供了唯一的年度论坛，并因此将继续实现这一目标。第二，由于这是第十次年度专题讨论会，本次会议还将使与会者能够反思过去十年的事态发展，并规划该领域的前进道路。因此，这次研讨会为交流不同学科的科学信息和培养该领域的新研究方向提供了一个重要的场所。该项目将专门资助11名国内发言者和10名学生/博士后奖学金的旅费和住宿费。演讲者包括科学和文化多样性领域的老牌和新兴领导人。旅行奖学金将支持从事生态基因组学工作的年轻科学家。这些奖学金的目标将是支持来自科学界历史上代表性不足的群体的个人。这次会议是围绕一套为期两天的非重叠邀请演讲而设计的，提供了充分的机会来培养与会者之间的互动。

A decade ago ecological genomics was a field in its infancy. The field was created to develop a comprehensive understanding of the genetic mechanisms that organisms use to respond to changing ecological and environmental conditions at the genome-wide scale. During the last ten years ecological genomics has grown into a productive discipline that thrives via novel interdisciplinary research that integrates the fields of ecology, evolution, genomics, and physiology to address fundamental questions at the mechanistic level. This meeting award aids the advancement of the field ecological genomics through support of the tenth annual Ecological Genomics Symposium to be hosted by the Kansas State University, Ecological Genomics Institute from the 26th to the 28th of October 2012 at the Marriot Hotel on the Plaza in Kansas City, Missouri. The Tenth Annual Ecological Genomics Symposium will accomplish two primary goals. First, this symposium provides the only annual forum for the dissemination of the rapidly advancing and diverse research in ecological genomics in the world and thus it will continue to accomplish this goal. Second, since this is the tenth annual symposium, this meeting will also allow participants to reflect on the developments of the last decade, as well as chart the path forward for the field. Thus, this symposium provides an essential venue for exchanging scientific information from diverse disciplines and fostering novel research directions for the field. The project will specifically support travel and lodging costs for eleven domestic speakers and ten student/postdoctoral fellowships. The speakers include both established and emerging leaders of the field that is both scientifically and culturally diverse. The travel fellowships will support young scientists working in ecological genomics. These fellowships will be targeted to support individuals from historically underrepresented groups in science. The meeting is designed around a single set of non-overlapping invited talks over a two-day period affording ample opportunity to cultivate interactions among the participants.