Sustaining Biological Infrastructure: Strategies for Success A Short Course for Project Directors

美国生态学会（ESA）获得了一笔赠款，用于制定一项培训计划，“维持生物基础设施：成功战略”，为生物研究基础设施项目的负责人提供战略业务规划，营销和沟通方面的培训。成功的生物学研究依赖于获得广泛的支持性基础设施资源，包括数据库、生物种群收藏、博物馆收藏和野外工作站。反过来，这些资源需要知情的规划，以保持其长期的财政可持续性和创新能力，以满足研究界不断变化的需求。该计划将每年举办一次为期三年的培训讲习班，其智力价值在于为研究基础设施主任提供他们所需的技能，将长期财务可持续性和创新纳入他们对这些基本资源的管理和持续发展中。生物研究，包括农业、遗传学、环境科学、以及人类疾病的发生都依赖于基础设施。这种基础设施的例子包括收集有记录的来源和遗传历史的活生物体、储存基因序列和蛋白质结构信息的数据库以及配备环境监测设备的实地站。这些资源的负责人需要深入了解战略业务规划，以确保对科学发展和创新至关重要的基础设施的长期可持续性。讲习班组织者将鼓励广泛的科学家参加，包括来自科学界代表性不足的群体的科学家，与会者将有机会交流有关其挑战和经验、成功和失败的信息。因此，该计划的更广泛影响在于它对生物研究的长期可持续性和科学家计划主任社区的发展做出了贡献，这些科学家计划主任可以将他们的新知识沿着下一代科学家。关于这次讲习班的更多信息将在欧空局网站www.esa.org的“科学方案”部分提供。

The Ecological Society of America (ESA) is awarded a grant to develop a training program, "Sustaining Biological Infrastructure: Strategies for Success", to provide directors of biological research infrastructure projects with training in strategic business planning, marketing, and communication. Successful biological research relies on access to a wide range of supporting infrastructure resources, including databases, living stocks collections, museum collections, and field stations. These resources in turn require informed planning to maintain their long-term financial sustainability and capacity to innovate to meet the research community's constantly changing needs. The intellectual merit of this program, which will conduct an annual training workshop for three years, consists in providing research infrastructure directors with the skills they need to integrate long-term financial sustainability and innovation into their management and continuing development of these essential resources.Biological research, including research in fields of direct societal relevance such as agriculture, genetics, environmental science, and human diseases, depends on infrastructure. Examples of this infrastructure include collections of living organisms with documented provenance and genetic histories, data repositories with information about gene sequences and protein structures, and field stations with environmental monitoring equipment. Directors of these resources need in-depth knowledge of strategic business planning to ensure the long-term sustainability of infrastructure vital to scientific development and innovation. Workshop organizers will encourage participation by a wide range of scientists, including those from groups underrepresented in science, and participants will have the opportunity to exchange information about their challenges and experiences, successes and failures. The broader impacts of this program thus lie in its contribution to the long-term sustainability of biological research and to the development of a community of scientist-program directors who can in turn pass along their new knowledge to the next generation of scientists. Additional information about this workshop will be made available in the "Science Programs" section of ESA's website, www.esa.org.