Workshop: Sino-US Collaborative Research on the Rise of Modern Biological Diversity In the Phanerozoic

技术：PIS建议召开一次跨学科研讨会，聚集来自中国和美国的古生物学、进化生物学、墓葬动物学和其他与显生界现代生物多样性崛起相关的领域的关键人物和初级研究人员。本次研讨会将继续举办一系列双边研讨会，以解决生命历史中的批判性转变问题，该研讨会始于2005年，由美国国家科学基金会和中国国家科学基金会共同赞助。研讨会将在芝加哥的菲尔德博物馆举办，并将以五个广泛的主题为特色，以捕捉最近备受瞩目的研究活动。所有职业阶段的专家将被邀请提供当前研究现状的简要总结，随后将进行广泛的、有节制的讨论，以确定新的研究方向和倡议，并将在专门的网站上向更广泛的受众传播。非技术性：研讨会将汇集中美不同的专家小组，他们横跨古生物学的广度，以解决始于2005年、由美国国家科学基金会和中国国家科学基金会共同赞助的生命史上的批判性转变。讲习班将有助于确定新的古生物学研究方向和举措，其成果将广泛传播给古生物学研究界。

Technical:PIs propose to convene a cross-disciplinary workshop that brings together key players and junior researchers from China and the US in paleontology, evolutionary biology, taphonomy and other field related to the Rise of Modern Biodiversity in the Phanerozoic. This workshop will continue a series of bilateral workshops to address Criticial Transitions in the History of Life started in 2005 and co-sponsored by the US National Science Foundation and China National Science Foundation have co-sponsored a series. The workshop will be hosted at the Field Museum in Chicago, and will feature five broad themes chosen to capture recent, high profile research activities. Experts at all career stages will be invited to provide brief summaries of the status of current research followed by extensive, moderated discussions to identify new research directions and initiatives, which will be disseminated to a wider audience on dedicated web sites.Non-technical:The workshop will bring together a diverse group of Sino-US experts that spans the breadth of paleobiology to address Criticial Transitions in the History of Life started in 2005 and co-sponsored by the US National Science Foundation and China National Science Foundation. The workshop will help identify new research directions and initiatives in paleobiology and the outcomes will be widely disseminated to the paleobiology research community.