GARNet 2020

GARNet为英国科学家开展基础植物科学研究提供领导和协调。一个统一的，前瞻性的和连接良好的基础植物科学研究基地支撑着作物科学，农学，农业和植物基生物材料和生物能源行业的进步。因此，鉴于植物科学在利用日益减少的土地和淡水资源生产粮食、饲料、纤维和燃料方面应对全球重大挑战的重要性，现在比以往任何时候都更需要发挥这一作用。我们的主要目标是通过以下方式支持英国植物科学家：-为他们提供合适的技能和资源，以采用新的科学工作方式，包括使用大型测序数据集，大规模图像分析和多尺度预测生物学。促进基础植物科学家与农业、生物能源和生物技术最终用户社区之间的联系与合作。- 管理和扩展GARNet通信平台，以促进社区内的知识交流，并成为外部各方的单一联系点。拟议工作的具体成果将是提高对大数据管理，成像技术和植物科学多尺度建模方法的认识，并在整个资助期内在研讨会和会议上进行这些领域的培训。我们希望根据社区的要求举办其他活动，社区由GARNet咨询委员会代表GARNet管理。这些活动将在GARNet网站上通过专家常见问题解答页面进行跟进。还计划建立关于合成生物学、开放获取和植物科学下一代测序的公共网页。上述领域的活动将使基础植物科学家直接受益，从研究生到高级学术人员，他们将获得进一步开展和应用研究所需的任何资源、培训和联系。GARNet将成为他们与关键资源提供商的联系纽带，谈判和简化对资源的访问，包括高性能计算能力、微阵列和测序服务。来自各种背景的植物科学家也将能够自由地使用GARNet社区网络平台来分享新闻和推广他们的工作。GARNet将有利于英国植物科学的资助者，主要是BBSRC，通过增加他们投入植物研究社区的资金价值。GARNet的活动、网站、邮件列表和通讯都有助于促进整个研究界的有效和高效工作，并鼓励知识交流和合作。此外，来自行业和出版界的代表与我们的社交媒体相连，并参加我们的活动，增加英国研究的全球曝光率，促进产学合作和其他最大化研究影响的机制。

GARNet provides leadership and coordination to UK scientists carrying out basic plant science research. A united, forward-looking and well-connected basic plant science research base underpins progress in crop science, agronomy, agriculture and the plant-based biomaterials and bioenergy industries. This role is therefore now more necessary than ever given the importance of plant science in meeting global grand challenges in the production of food, feed, fibre and fuel using diminishing resources of land and fresh water. Our main aims are to support UK plant scientists by: - Equipping them with the right skills and resources to take on new ways of working in science, including using large sequencing datasets, large-scale image analysis, and multi-scale predictive biology.- Promoting connections and collaborations between basic plant scientists and the agriculture, bioenergy and biotechnology end-user communities. - Managing and extending GARNet communication platforms to promote knowledge exchange within the community and to be a single point of contact for external parties.Concrete outcomes of the proposed work will be raised awareness of large data management, imaging technologies, and multi-scale modelling approaches to plant science, and training in these areas at workshops and conferences throughout the grant term. We expect to run other events as required by the community, which is represented to GARNet administration by the GARNet Advisory Committee. These events will be followed up with expert FAQ pages on the GARNet website. Public pages on synthetic biology, open access and next generation sequencing for plant science are also planned. Activities in the above areas will be of direct benefit to basic plant scientists, from post-graduate students to senior academic staff, who will gain access to any resources, training and connections they need to further and apply their research. GARNet will be their link to key resource providers, negotiating and simplifying access to resources including high performance computing power, microarray and sequencing services. Plant scientists from all backgrounds will also be able to use GARNet community networking platforms freely to share news and promote their work. GARNet will benefit funders of UK plant science, principally BBSRC, by adding value to the funding they put into the plant research community. GARNet events, website, mailing list and newsletter all help promote effective and efficient working across the research community and encourage knowledge exchange and collaboration. In addition, representatives from industry and publishing are connected to our social media and attend our events, increasing global exposure of UK research and promoting industry-academic collaborations and other mechanisms of maximising the impact of research.