2022 Microbiology of the Built Environment GRC & GRS

在当今的现代世界中，人们大约90%的时间都花在建筑环境中，包括住宅/建筑物，办公室/学校以及商业，娱乐和娱乐设施。建筑环境中的微生物可能对人类健康产生不利影响，从引发过敏到传播病毒性疾病（如COVID-19）。研究这些微生物的跨学科科学领域被称为“建筑环境微生物学”（MoBE）。该会议奖将支持演讲者，学生和早期职业研究人员参加2022年戈登研究会议（GRC），讨论该领域的现状，并从最近的研究结果中学习。GRC将为与会者提供交流思想和建立新伙伴关系的机会，以推动重要和新兴的现场MoBE。COVID-19大流行强调了提高对建筑环境中病原体和疾病传播的基本认识的必要性。一个跨学科的领域，建筑环境的微生物学（MoBE），已经出现了集中在科学，工程和公共卫生的影响，在建筑环境中的微生物和病毒病原体的命运，运输和传染性。 MoBE融合并整合了来自微生物学、病毒学、工程学、医学和公共卫生等多个领域的概念、原理和专业知识。该NSF奖项将支持将于2022年6月在沃特维尔山谷（NH）举行的戈登研究会议（GRC）。本次会议的主题是“建筑环境中水、空气和人类健康界面上的微生物”。这个GRC是在一个关键时刻，作为MoBE领域发起更深入的讨论，以确定关键的研究问题，“大挑战”，和未满足的研究需求。NSF奖将为演讲者，学生和早期职业研究人员提供旅行赠款，使他们能够参加MoB GRC。作为该奖项的一项关键成果，会议组织者将利用研讨会的讨论，领导起草一份愿景/观点文章，标题暂定为“建筑环境的微生物学-未来10年”。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。

In today’s modern world, people spend about 90% of their time in the built environment including residential homes/buildings, offices/schools, and commercial, entertainment, and recreational facilities. Microorganisms in the built environment can have adverse impact on human health ranging from triggering allergies to the transmission of viral diseases such as COVID-19. The interdisciplinary scientific field that studies these microorganisms is called the “Microbiology of the Built Environment” (MoBE). This conference award will support speakers, students, and early career researchers to attend the 2022 Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on MoBE to discuss the state of the field and learn from recent research findings. The GRC will provide opportunities for the participants to exchange ideas and build new partnerships to advance the important and emerging of field MoBE.The COVID-19 pandemic has underscored the need to improve the fundamental understanding of pathogen and disease transmission in the built-environment. An interdisciplinary field, Microbiology of the Built Environment (MoBE), has emerged focused around the science, engineering, and public health implications of the fate, transport, and infectivity of microbial and viral pathogens in the built environment. MoBE converges and integrates concepts, principles, and expertise from many fields including microbiology, virology, engineering, medicine, and public health. This NSF award will support the June 2022 Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on MoBE that will be held in Waterville Valley (NH). The theme of this conference is “Microbes at the Interface of Water, Air, and Human Health in Built Environments”. This GRC comes at a critical time as the MoBE field initiates more in-depth discussions to identify critical research questions, “Grand Challenges”, and unmet research needs. The NSF award will provide travel grants to speakers, students, and early career researchers to enable them to attend the MoB GRC. As a key deliverable for this award, the conference organizers will leverage the workshop discussions to lead the crafting of a vision/perspective article tentatively entitled “Microbiology of the Built Environment – the Next 10 Years”.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.