Conference: Plant Biology 2019 PUI Faculty Development Workshop, San Jose, CA; August 3-7, 2019

该奖项支持参加美国植物生物学家协会(ASPB)2019年植物生物学年会的旅费，这些人主要与本科生机构(PUI)相关，参加为期半天的研讨会，重点是设计本科研究项目以增加发表的可能性，以及PUI职业小组讨论。PUI的教师主要专注于本科教育和研究，通过在各自领域产生知识并指导未来的研究人员，对科学做出了重大贡献。PUI是培养下一代科学家的关键孵化器；与更重视研究生课程的机构的学生相比，就读于专注于本科教学和研究的机构的学生更有可能留在STEM专业。对于代表不足的少数族裔学生，包括研究经验和指导相结合的培训计划扩大了对STEM学科的参与。然而，进入PUIS教职生涯的科学家面临着从研究密集型环境到繁重的教学负担的艰难过渡，通常是因为他们希望指导本科生的研究；资金有限；几乎没有同事有类似的研究兴趣。ASPB和植物生物学会议为PUIS的植物生物学家提供了与更广泛的科学界保持联系的重要资源。尽管旅行获得者以及参加研讨会和小组讨论的人将从这笔资金中获得最直接的支持，但这一专业发展机会将为他们的本科生研究人员、ASPB和支持PUI研究的联邦机构提供深远的好处。赠款资金将通过竞争性旅行补助和PUI特定计划，包括职业小组讨论、半天研讨会和分部会议，支持更多PUI教职员工参与2019年植物生物学。尽管三分之一的博士生和博士后对PUI职业表示了浓厚的兴趣，但很少有人关注指导职业前和职业生涯早期的PUI教师，特别是那些来自代表不足的少数民族的教师，以建立学术独立。植物生物学2019年的PUI职业小组解决了研究生和博士后对PUI职业道路和机会的信息的要求。参加小组讨论的人将有机会与经验丰富的PUI教师建立一对一的合作伙伴关系，他们将帮助那些准备或开始PUI职业生涯的人。此外，R1机构的同事将学习如何最好地支持和建议他们实验室中申请PUI教师职位的研究生和博士后。PUI院校的教师面临的一个特殊挑战是，让多名本科生(他们通常会在短期内参与一个项目)进行研究，并将这些研究成果拼凑成“可发表的单元”。PUI工作坊将重点设计本科生的研究项目，考虑到出版，并在研究完成后导航写作和出版过程。讲习班参与者将更好地利用他们实验室产生的知识，并通过各自领域的出版物传播这些知识。这不仅将使这些教职员工和他们的学生受益，而且还将增加科学知识的传播速度和程度。该奖项由综合组织系统分部的生理机制和生物力学项目和植物基因组研究项目共同资助。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This award supports travel to the American Society of Plant Biologist's (ASPB's) annual Plant Biology 2019 conference for individuals associated with Primarily Undergraduate Institutions (PUIs) attending a half-day workshop focused on designing undergraduate research projects to increase the probability of publication and a PUI career panel discussion. PUI faculty focus predominantly on undergraduate education and research, making significant contributions to science by generating knowledge in their fields while mentoring future researchers. PUIs are critical incubators of the next generation of scientists; students who attend institutions with a focus on undergraduate teaching and research are more likely to remain in a STEM major, compared to those at institutions with a greater emphasis on graduate programs. For underrepresented minority students, training programs that include combinations of research experience and mentorship have broadened participation in the STEM disciplines. However, scientists entering faculty careers at PUIs face a difficult transition from a research-intensive environment to a heavy teaching load, typically with the expectation of mentoring undergraduate research; limited funding; and few colleagues with similar research interests. ASPB and the Plant Biology conference provide important resources for plant biologists at PUIs to maintain connections with the broader scientific community. Although it is the travel awardees and those who attend the workshop and panel who will receive the most direct support from this funding, this professional development opportunity will provide far-reaching benefits to their undergraduate researchers, ASPB, and the federal agencies that support PUI research.Grant funding will support greater PUI faculty participation at Plant Biology 2019 through competitive travel grants and PUI-specific programing, including a career panel, half-day workshop, and section meeting. Despite 1/3 of PhD students and postdocs expressing a strong interest in PUI careers, scant attention is paid to mentoring pre- and early career PUI faculty, especially those from underrepresented minorities, toward establishing academic independence. The PUI career panel at Plant Biology 2019 addresses requests from graduate students and postdocs for information about career paths and opportunities at PUIs. Those attending the panel will have the opportunity to enter into one-on-one partnerships with experienced PUI faculty who will help those preparing for or beginning a PUI career. In addition, colleagues at R1 institutions will learn how to best support and advise graduate students and postdocs in their labs who are applying to PUI faculty positions. A specific challenge for faculty at PUI institutions is taking research conducted by multiple undergraduates (who are often involved with a project for a short duration), and piecing that work together into "publishable units". The PUI workshop will focus on designing undergraduate research projects with publication in mind and navigating the writing and publication process once the research is completed. Workshop participants will leave better equipped to take the knowledge generated in their labs and disseminate it through publications in their field. This will not only benefit those faculty members and their students, but also increase the rate and extent of dissemination of scientific knowledge. This award was co-funded by the Physiological Mechanisms and Biomechanics Program and the Plant Genome Research Program in the Division of Integrative Organismal Systems.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.