iNeuro: Response to an identified need for a workforce trained to curate and manage large scale data and databases

白宫大脑倡议（http：//whitehouse.gov/share/brain-initiative）强调了在神经科学大数据库的协调设计、生产和分析方面取得进展的潜力，以帮助我们更好地了解大脑结构和功能之间的相互作用。然而，为了实现这一潜力，需要有一支能够以可持续、注释良好、易于获取的格式创建和维护这些数据库的工作队伍。本次研讨会的目的是考虑在教育这样的劳动力和确保信息神经科学（iNeuro）本科教育固有的挑战将反映国家的人口和高等教育机构的多样性，考虑对该劳动力的无数需求，并促进劳动力的灵活性，以应对不断变化的需求和资源作为学科的发展。它将有利于国家在劳动力发展，课程丰富，本科生教育和建立跨学科的方法来应对复杂的国家挑战等领域。这个一天半的iNeuro研讨会将创建一个路线图，概述教育下一代信息策展人/科学家的必要步骤。它将确定：1）这些人所需的技能和培训（如神经科学、数学和定量方法、信息科学、计算机科学等）以及适当的跨学科融合，2）培训这些人所需的教育者和计划，以及（3）帮助教师和机构将《愿景和变革报告》提出的规则纳入其教育战略/计划所需的行动。 与会者将代表全国高等教育机构的全方位，包括以下领域的专家：数据资源的管理者和供应商，参与生物信息学/分析培训的个人，图书馆和信息科学家，计算机科学家，神经科学教育工作者和参与研究的神经科学家。在讲习班之前，与会者将进行一段时间的信息交流，以确保有效利用讲习班时间，随后将编写一份白色文件，概述讲习班的结果。该项目由本科教育司和教育和人力资源局学习研究司以及生物基础设施司和生物科学局内的综合有机系统司共同支持，作为他们努力支持本科生物学教育的愿景和变革的一部分。

The potential for advances in coordinated design, production and analysis of big-data bases in neuroscience to help us better understand the interaction between the structure and function of the brain are highlighted by the White House Brain Initiative (http://whitehouse.gov/share/brain-initiative). However, in order for that potential to be realized, there is a need for a workforce capable of both creating and maintaining these data bases in a sustainable, well annotated, easily accessible format. This workshop is designed to consider the challenges inherent in educating such a work force and ensuring undergraduate education in information-neuroscience (iNeuro) will reflect the diversity of the nation's population and institutions of higher education, consider the myriad demands on that work force, and promote workforce flexibility in responding to changing needs and resources as the discipline evolves. It will benefit the nation in such areas as workforce development, curriculum enrichment, undergraduate student education and establishing interdisciplinary approaches to complex national challenges.This one and one-half day iNeuro workshop will create a roadmap outlining necessary steps to educate the next generation of information curators/scientists. It will identify: 1) the skill set(s) and training necessary for such individuals (e.g. neuroscience, mathematics and quantitative methods, information science, computer science, and others) as well as the appropriate trans-disciplinary blend, 2) the educators and programs needed to train such individuals, and (3) actions needed to help faculty and institutions incorporate the precepts advanced by the Vision and Change report into their educational strategies/programs. Attendees will represent the full spectrum of higher education institutions across the nation and will include experts in such areas as: managers and purveyors of data resources, individuals involved in bioinformatics/analytics training, library and information scientists, computer scientists, neuroscience educators and research-involved neuroscientists. The workshop will be preceded by a period of information exchange among the participants to ensure an efficient use of workshop time and will be followed by production of a white paper summarizing workshop findings. This project is being supported jointly by the Division of Undergraduate Education and the Division of Research on Learning in the Directorate of Education and Human Resources and the Division of Biological Infrastructure and the Division of Integrative Organismal Systems within the Directorate of Biological Sciences as part of their efforts toward support of Vision and Change in Undergraduate Biology Education.