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Budget Update and Implications BIO – Advisory Committee April 19 th 2007 James P. Collins

Budget Update and Implications BIO – Advisory Committee April 19 th 2007 James P. Collins Assistant Director for Biological Sciences. Biology at NSF. BIO’s mission: To enable the discoveries for understanding life. Elements framing BIO’s vision and for fulfilling BIO’s mission: Values :

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Budget Update and Implications BIO – Advisory Committee April 19 th 2007 James P. Collins

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  1. Budget Update and Implications BIO – Advisory Committee April 19th 2007 James P. Collins Assistant Director for Biological Sciences

  2. Biology at NSF BIO’s mission: To enable the discoveries for understanding life Elements framing BIO’s vision and for fulfilling BIO’s mission: Values: • Integration of Research and Education • Broadening Participation • International Partnerships • Alignment with Other Institutional Agendas Overarching Scientific Themes: • Theoretical Biology • Systems Biology • Biology and Society BIO’s vision: Inspiring research and education at the frontiers of the life sciences Opportunity:Lead a conversation

  3. Biology at NSF • Theoretical and conceptual foundations of biology • Diverse model systems • plant genomics • non-medical microbes • Ecological forecasting • global change research • Interdisciplinary research

  4. Alignment with Other Institutional Agendas American Competitiveness Initiative NSB 2020 Vision Strategic Plan FY 2006-2011 NSF Budget Request FY 2008

  5. Aligning BIO – NSF – ACI BIO Priorities Core Programs, IPY, Biology & Society, Theoretical Biology BIO broadening participation activities NEON, Plant Cyber Collaborative, Nano Center Transformative research, organizational change NSF Strategic Goals Discovery Learning Research Infrastructure Stewardship Amer. Comp. Init. (ACI) Fundamental Research 21st Century Workforce Transformative Facilities & Infrastructure Quality Merit Review

  6. Growth in NSF Budget Current Dollars in Millions

  7. Growth in BIO Budget Current Dollars in Millions

  8. FY 2008 Request Research & Related Activities by Directorate

  9. BIO Budget Request by Division

  10. FY 2008 NSF Budget Priorities • Discovery Research for Innovation • Preparing the Workforce for the 21st Century • Transformational Facilities and Infrastructure • International Polar Year Leadership • Stewardship

  11. Discovery Research for Innovation • Increase support for core BIO research • EF venture funding for transformative research • New Plant Science Cyberinfrastructure Collaborative • New multidisciplinary Center for Research on the Environmental and Health Safety of Nanotechnology Priority:Stimulate innovation within BIO’s core competencies

  12. Plant Science Cyber Collaborative To enable new conceptual advances through integrative, computational thinking. This collaborative will use new computer science, computational science, and cyberinfrastructure solutions to address grand challenges in biology. BIO’s investment in this critical activity will involve plant biologists, computer and information scientists, and experts from other disciplines working in integrated teams.

  13. New Nanotechnology Center A multidisciplinary Center for Research on the Environmental and Health Safety of Nanotechnology will conduct fundamental research on the interactions between nanoparticles and materials and the living world at all scales. Companion research on methods and instrumentation for nanoparticle detection, characterization and monitoring will occur. The fundamental research funded through this center will also support the regulatory mission agencies' abilities to develop science-based standards for risk assessments, such as the standards needed by the EPA to regulate products containing nanomaterials.

  14. Preparing the Workforce of the 21st Century Increase support for activities to broaden participation of individuals from underrepresented groups at all levels

  15. Transformational Facilities and Infrastructure • Increase support for research resources, including cyberinfrastructure • Increase funding for National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) • Progress toward meeting milestones

  16. NEON: FY 2007/2008 Milestones 2007 • Final Sites Selected and EIA/EIS initiated • NEON Construction Project Office operational • Project Execution Plan delivered • Preliminary Design Review conducted • Begin NEON fundamental technology unit assembly and CI integration 2008 • Fully integrate and validate NEON fundamental technology unit and cyberinfrastructure • Initiate deployment of BioMesoNet and basic towers at first location • Bring Project Management Control Software System to a fully operational status

  17. International Polar Year Leadership • Support for research that addresses scientific challenges such as biological adaptation and ecosystem dynamics in polar environments using genomics tools • Support for research on the understanding of environmental change and biotic systems in the polar regions

  18. Stewardship • Emerging Frontiers – transformative research • Evolving Programs • Biocomplexity • Mathematical Sciences • Realignment of Division of Integrative Organismal Systems Future Direction:Foster transformative research

  19. Central Challenge BIO’s mission: To enable the discoveries for understanding life BIO’s vision: Inspiring research and education at the frontiers of the life sciences • Organizational Change:Division of Integrative Organismal Systems • - Behavioral Systems • - Developmental Systems • -Neural Systems • -Physiological and Structural Systems Central challenge:Operate the BIO of today while becoming the BIO of tomorrow

  20. SUMMARY • To lead a conversation • To stimulate innovation within biology • To foster transformative research • To become the BIO of tomorrow

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