Physiological Genomics Workshop in St. Louis, MO, April 2020: Finding and Mending the Knowledge Gaps between Plant Physiology and Plant Functional Genetics/Genomics

为期两天的研讨会将于2020年4月在圣路易斯密苏里州召开，讨论如何解决植物生理学和遗传学/基因组学交叉领域出现的科学挑战。目前的技术进步使新的方法来测量植物的属性和测序成千上万的植物样品。这些技术是复杂的，研究人员的社区已经围绕他们成长。为了真正理解驱动植物生长的复杂相互作用，科学家必须能够跨学科工作。研讨会将致力于确定将研究界聚集在一起的成功战略，并将讨论科学进步面临的挑战和克服研究进步障碍的战略。研讨会将包括来自不同职业阶段，机构类型，地理位置，性别和种族背景的学者，并将产生一份白色论文，总结讨论和结论。了解植物如何与环境相互作用，需要了解信息如何从基因组移动到细胞表型再到组织水平的反应，这些反应决定了生物体的反应和生态系统的结果。 从历史上看，这些问题已经由不同的领域解决，如基因组学/遗传学和生理学。为了在各个领域之间建立联系，重要的是要了解研究人员在试图弥合这些差距时遇到的文化、体制和人为障碍。为了解决其中的一些差距，将召开一次研讨会，由在植物生理学和遗传学/基因组学问题领域工作的科学家参加，以（1）确定利用植物生理学、遗传学和基因组学了解植物如何对环境作出反应的成功战略;（2）确定可以通过跨学科方法弥合的科学和技术差距;（3）确定需要克服的沟通和协作挑战;（4）提出解决方案和方向，以推进跨学科领域。为了传播这些结果，将撰写一份白皮书来总结这些发现，并发表在植物学会杂志上。预计白皮书的编写和传播将支持跨学科对话，推动解决方案的制定。该研讨会将包括来自不同职业阶段、机构类型、地理位置、性别和种族背景的学者。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

A two-day workshop will be convened in St. Louis Missouri in April 2020 to discuss ways to address emerging scientific challenges at the intersection of plant physiology and genetics/genomics. Current advances in technology have enabled novel approaches to measure properties of plants and to sequence thousands of plant samples. These techniques are complex and communities of researchers have grown around them. To truly make sense of the complicated interactions that drive plant growth, scientists must be able to work across the disciplines. The facilitated workshop will be devoted to identifying successful strategies to bring research communities together, and will address challenges to scientific progress and strategies to overcome barriers to research progress. The workshop will include scholars from diverse career stages, institutional types, geographical locations, gender, and ethnic backgrounds and will result in a white paper summarizing discussions and conclusions.Understanding how plants interact with the environment requires understanding how information moves from the genome to cellular phenotypes to tissue level responses that determine organismal responses and ecosystem outcomes. Historically, these questions have been addressed by separate fields, such as genomics/genetics and physiology. In order to form links between fields, it is important to understand what are the cultural, institutional and human obstacles that researchers trying to bridge these gaps are encountering. To address some of these gaps, a workshop will be convened of scientists working across the plant physiology and genetics/genomics problem space to (1) identify successful strategies that use plant physiology, genetics and genomics to understand how plants respond to the environment; (2) identify scientific and technology gaps that could be bridged by interdisciplinary approaches; (3) identify communication and collaboration challenges to overcome; and (4) propose solutions and directions to advance the interdisciplinary field. In order to disseminate these results, a whitepaper will be written to summarize the findings and published in a plant society journal. The development and dissemination of the whitepaper is anticipated to support cross-disciplinary dialogue that advance the development of solutions. The workshop will include scholars from diverse career stages, institutional types, geographical locations, gender, and ethnic backgrounds.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.