Meeting: June 1-2, 2015, Milton Keynes, UK: Supporting American Graduate Students & Postdocs to participate in the Royal Society Scientific Meeting: Elements, Genomes, & Ec

该提案要求提供资金，以便利美国研究生和博士后参加由皇家学会在联合王国米尔顿凯恩斯组织的为期两天的独特跨学科西奥·墨菲会议。 会议将探讨环境氮（N）和磷（P）如何影响核酸的进化，以及营养素和核酸之间的进化联系如何通过自然和农业生态系统级联。这次会议的记录将编入一系列手稿。 美国初级科学家（即研究生和博士后）参加这样一个多样化的，以讨论为基础的会议将为这个重要问题带来新的视角，并将为初级科学家提供他们需要的联系和背景，以启动一个旨在整合在生物组织多个层次上运作的过程的研究计划。这些信息对于清楚地了解生物系统如何对环境条件作出反应至关重要。这项提议是为了支持美国研究生和博士后前往参加由皇家学会组织的为期两天的独特跨学科西奥·墨菲会议（2015年6月1日至2日，英国米尔顿凯恩斯奇切利大厅）。 把来自世界各地的科学家聚集在一起，介绍和讨论新的研究是皇家学会西奥墨菲会议的精神。研究所将主办一次题为“元素、基因组和生态系统：氮和磷对生物组织各级的级联影响”的会议，将来自七个国家（四大洲）的高级和早期职业科学家联合起来，研究从基因组大小演变到全球环境变化等问题。具体而言，会议将探讨环境氮（N）和磷（P）如何影响核酸的进化，以及营养素和核酸之间的这些进化联系如何通过自然和农业生态系统级联。会议将汇集氮和磷代谢，植物和动物基因组进化，生态学和农业方面的专业知识。这次会议的目标与国家科学基金会培养下一代科学家的中心使命相结合。研究生和博士后将被积极招募，特别强调在STEM领域代表性不足的群体，申请本提案中要求的旅行支持。NSF的旅行支持将使这些学生和博士后能够在这次独特的会议上为讨论做出贡献并从中受益。

This proposal requests funding to facilitate the participation of American graduate students and postdocs in a unique two-day cross-disciplinary Theo Murphy meeting organized by the Royal Society in Milton Keynes, United Kingdom. The meeting will explore how environmental nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) impacts the evolution of nucleic acids and how these evolutionary links between nutrients and nucleic acids cascade through natural and agricultural ecosystems. The proceedings of this meeting will be captured in a series of manuscripts. Participation of junior American scientists (i.e. graduate students and post-docs) in such a diverse, discussion-based conference will bring fresh new perspectives to this important question and will provide the junior scientists with the connections and context that they need to start a research program aimed at integrating processes that operate at multiple levels of biological organization. Such information will be vital for a clear understanding of how biological systems respond to environmental conditions. This proposal is to support the travel of American graduate students and postdocs to a unique two-day cross-disciplinary Theo Murphy meeting organized by the Royal Society (June 1-2, 2015, Chicheley Hall, Milton Keynes, UK). Bringing together scientists from around the world to present and discuss new research is the spirit of the Royal Society's Theo Murphy meetings. The PIs will host a meeting entitled "Elements, genomes and ecosystems: cascading nitrogen and phosphorus impacts across levels of biological organization" to unite senior and early-career scientists from seven countries (4 continents) working on issues ranging from genome size evolution to global environmental change. Specifically, the meeting will explore how environmental nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) impacts the evolution of nucleic acids and how these evolutionary links between nutrients and nucleic acids cascade through natural and agricultural ecosystems. The meeting will bring together expertise in N and P metabolism, plant and animal genome evolution, ecology, and agriculture. The meeting's goals integrate well with the National Science Foundation's central mission to train the next generation of scientists. Graduate students and postdocs will be actively recruited, with a particular emphasis on groups underrepresented in STEM fields, to apply for travel support requested in this proposal. NSF travel support will enable these students and postdocs to contribute to and benefit from the discussions at this unique meeting.