Conference: 50 Years of Interdisciplinary Research at the Duke Lemur Center: the power of biological infrastructure to advance knowledge

该项目将支持一个联合研讨会和专题讨论会，以纪念杜克狐猴中心（DLC）跨学科生物学研究五十周年，并为科学界突出和评估活种群收藏的独特强大属性。 DLC影响了生物学科，从行为生态学到脑科学，进化生态学，微生物宏基因组学，比较基因组学，生物力学，One Health疾病动力学，老龄化和人口统计学，生物多样性保护，古生物学，气候变化，比较生理学，物种形成遗传学，感官生物学等。 DLC是一个真正的生活实验室，通过跨学科研究推进科学，学术和生物保护，在其50年的历史中，成千上万的学生从K-12到研究生水平一直从事并受到他们在DLC的经验的启发。 此外，来自公众的数十万游客已经接触到生物多样性发现和保护的概念，以及生物研究的力量，通过他们接触到DLC的工作人员，学生和收藏品。 然而，尽管取得了巨大的成功，DLC和其他活种群集合面临着作为基础科学基础设施的长期可持续性问题。 这些生物资源的力量和不可替代的性质需要被清楚地表达出来，以便所有利益相关者了解这些国家资源的风险和需求。作为2015年10月在美国国家遗传资源保护中心举办的美国培养物收集网络的后续活动，DLC将于9月21日下午举办活种群收集经理工作组会议，2016. 该工作组将代表五个主要的活库存中心，鉴于中心焦点（植物，真菌，昆虫和哺乳动物）的系统发育广度，研讨会将涵盖生命之树的巨大延伸，因此代表了数亿年的进化。 工作组会议将在DLC主办的50周年研讨会之前举行。 研讨会将于2016年9月22日至23日举行，将特别关注与生物学理事会相关的学科，特别是行为系统，气候变化，传染病的生态学和进化，进化过程，系统学和生物多样性，以及理解大脑。 会议细节和旅行和住宿信息将通过专题讨论会网站http：//lemur.duke.edu/50/传达给与会者;该网站也接受在线注册。 为了吸引来自小型机构的学生和参与者，将于2016年9月22日晚在DLC举行海报会议。 多学科领袖会议讲习班和专题讨论会特别值得注意的是，妇女在科学界的代表性很强，51%的与会者是妇女。 活种群工作组的成果将汇编成一份白色文件，与会者将寻找一个生物界可以广泛查阅的出版地点。 50周年研讨会的所有演讲都将被录制下来，并在DLC的YouTube频道上播放。

This project will support a combined workshop and symposium to commemorate fifty years of interdisciplinary biological research at the Duke Lemur Center (DLC), and also, to highlight and evaluate the uniquely powerful attributes of Living Stocks Collections for the scientific community. The DLC has impacted biological disciplines ranging from behavioral ecology to brain sciences, evolutionary ecology, microbial metagenomics, comparative genomics, biomechanics, One Health disease dynamics, aging and demography, biodiversity conservation, paleontology, climate change, comparative physiology, speciation genetics, sensory biology, and more. The DLC is truly a living laboratory for advancing science, scholarship, and biological conservation through interdisciplinary research, and over its 50-year history, thousands of students ranging from K-12 through postgraduate levels have been engaged in and inspired by their experiences at the DLC. Also, hundreds of thousands of visitors from the general public have been exposed to the concepts of biodiversity discovery and conservation, as well as the power of biological research via their exposure to the DLC's staff, students, and collections. Despite its resounding success, however, the DLC and other Living Stocks Collections face issues of long-term sustainability as foundational infrastructure for the basic sciences. The power and irreplaceable nature of these biological collections needs to be articulated such that all stakeholders understand the risks and needs for these national resources.As a follow-up to the U.S. Culture Collection Network hosted in October, 2015 at the National Center for Genetic Resources Preservation, the DLC will host a working group meeting of Living Stocks Collection Managers on the afternoon of September 21, 2016. The working group will represent five of the leading Living Stock Centers, and given the phylogenetic breadth of the centers' foci (plants, fungi, insects, and mammals) the workshop will cover an enormous stretch of the Tree of Life, thus representing more than many hundreds of millions of years of evolution. The working group meeting will immediately precede the 50th-Anniversary Symposium to be hosted by the DLC. The Symposium to held on September 22-23, 2016 will focus specifically on disciplines relevant to the BIO Directorate, most especially Behavioral Systems, Climate Change, the Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases, Evolutionary Processes, Systematics and Biodiversity, and Understanding the Brain. Meeting details and travel and lodging information will be communicated to attendees via the symposium website, http://lemur.duke.edu/50/; which is also set up to accept online registrations. In order to engage students and participants from smaller institutions, there will be a poster session held at the DLC on the evening of September 22, 2016. The DLC workshop and symposium is particularly notable for the strong representation of women in science with 51% of participants being women. Results from the Living Stocks Working Group will be compiled into a white paper document for which the participants will seek a publication venue that is broadly accessible to the biological community. All talks from the 50th Anniversary Symposium will be recorded and made publically available on the DLC's YouTube channel.