2015 Ecological and Evolutionary Genomics Conference: Using Biodiversity to Explore Biocomplexity; University of New England, Biddeford, ME; July 12-17, 2015

生物和生态系统如何应对不断变化的环境仍然是基础和应用研究的一个重要问题。该奖项将为参加2015年生态和进化基因组学戈登研究会议（EEG GRC）的学生和教师提供旅费支持。脑电图是一门新兴的领域，对人类面临的重大科学问题和新出现的问题具有重要意义。脑电图汇集了不同的学科，并利用生物多样性来理解复杂的过程。EEG GRC是该领域的首演会议，将领导者，新星，博士后和研究生聚集在一个亲密的高度互动的环境中，这是GRC会议的一个标志。这次会议的主题是“利用生物多样性探索生物复杂性”，它强调基因组科学如何从传统的“模式”物种扩展到包括生物多样性的生物体，以及如何利用这一点来促进我们对生物体与环境之间复杂关系的理解。这项工作的一个主要目标是扩大EEG GRC的参与。这将通过从通常在科学领域代表性不足的群体中招募学生和教师来实现，为10个人提供注册和旅行费用，这将增加参与者的多样性。除了扩大参与范围外，该提案还将资助在计算和基因组方法方面取得进展的演讲者的旅费和注册费，这些方法用于研究以前未得到充分研究的生物体和生态系统，并为推动这项研究的学生和年轻研究人员提供资金。EEG GRC的结果将促进对生物多样性和生物复杂性之间关系的更好理解，并将通过增加对生物如何适应不断变化的环境的理解来影响社会。EEG GRC的智力优势在于解决了不同生物基因组分析所带来的独特计算挑战，需要开发新的工具、数据库和算法来帮助理解生物多样性。资金将用于支付参加“非模式生物的计算和基因组方法的进展”和“网络：从基因到生态系统”两个专题讨论会的七名发言者的旅费，并支持从“青年研究者：生态和进化基因组学的进展”专题讨论会提交的摘要中选出的四名个人。更广泛的影响包括促进扩大EEG GRC参与的努力这一主要目标。这将通过使用各种机制的招募工作来实现，这些机制将寻求使EEG GRC引起在科学领域代表性不足的群体的学生和教师的注意，并为其中10个人提供注册和旅行费用。资金还将用于支持两位杰出的高中教育工作者的参与，他们在科学推广和课程开发方面有记录，可以将这一前沿研究带入高中课堂。

How organisms and ecosystems respond to changing environments remains an important question of basic and applied research. This award will provide travel support for students and faculty to the 2015 Ecological and Evolutionary Genomics Gordon Research Conference (EEG GRC). EEG is a new but growing field with central importance to major scientific questions and emerging problems facing humanity. EEG brings together disparate disciplines and utilizes biological diversity to understand complex processes. The EEG GRC is the premiere meeting of this field, and brings together leaders, rising stars, postdocs, and graduate students in an intimate highly interactive environment, which is a hallmark of GRC meetings. The theme of this meeting is "Using Biodiversity to Explore Biocomplexity", which emphasizes how genome science is being expanded from traditional "model" species to encompass biologically diverse organisms, and how this can be used to advance our understanding of the complicated relationships between organisms and the environment. A major goal of this work is to broaden participation at the EEG GRC. This will be achieved through recruitment of students and faculty from groups usually underrepresented in science, providing registration and travel costs for ten individuals that will increase diversity among the participants. In addition to broadening participation, the proposal will fund travel and registration costs for speakers presenting advances in computational and genomic approaches to previously not well-studied organisms and ecosystems, and funds for students and young investigators who are driving this research. Results from this EEG GRC will advance a better understanding of the relationships between biodiversity and biocomplexity, and will impact society by increasing the understanding of how organisms adapt to changing environments.The intellectual merit of the EEG GRC is to address the unique computational challenges presented by the genomic analyses of diverse organisms requiring the development of new tools, databases and algorithms to help the understanding of biodiversity. Funds will be used to cover the travel costs for seven speakers in two symposia, "Advances in Computational and Genomic Approaches in Non-Model Organisms", and "Networks: From Genes to Ecosystems", and support for four individuals to be selected from submitted abstracts in the "Young Investigators: Advances in Ecological and Evolutionary Genomics" symposium. The broader impacts include the major goal of facilitating efforts to broaden participation at the EEG GRC. This will be achieved through recruitment efforts using a variety of mechanisms that will seek to bring the EEG GRC to the attention of students and faculty from groups underrepresented in science and provide registration and travel costs for ten of these individuals. Funds will also be used to support the participation of two outstanding High School educators with records in science outreach and curriculum development who can bring this cutting edge research to the high school classroom.