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Emerging Frontiers

Emerging Frontiers. Joann Roskoski Biological Sciences Advisory Committee November 18, 2004. EF History. Established in FY2003 Goal: To support multidisciplinary research and networking activities that arise from advances in disciplinary research. Activities. FY2003 NSF Priority areas:

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Emerging Frontiers

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  1. Emerging Frontiers Joann Roskoski Biological Sciences Advisory Committee November 18, 2004

  2. EF History • Established in FY2003 • Goal: To support multidisciplinary research and networking activities that arise from advances in disciplinary research

  3. Activities • FY2003 • NSF Priority areas: • Biocomplexity in the Environment (BE) • Information Technology Research (ITR) • Nanoscale Science and Engineering (Nano) • Mathematical Sciences (Math) • Frontiers in Integrative Biological Research (FIBR) • Research Coordination Networks (RCN) • Fy2004 • NSF Priority Areas: BE, ITR, Nano, Math, Human and Social Dynamics (HSD) • FIBR • RCN • Fy2005 • NSF Priority Areas: BE, Nano, Math, HSD • FIBR

  4. BE in FY2005 • NSF-wide competition: Coupled Natural and Human Systems • Ecology of Infectious Disease (with NIH) • Microbial Genome Sequencing (with USDA) • Assembling the Tree of Life

  5. Frontiers in Integrative Biological Research (FIBR) • Support projects that use innovative and broadly integrative approaches to tackle grand challenges in biology and by so doing promote the training of a new generation of fearless biologists ready and able to bridge disciplinary boundaries • Six research awards in FY 03 and FY04 • Five planning grants in FY03 and 4 in FY04

  6. FY03 FIBR • Examples of Questions • How do species arise? • Do species matter among microbes? • Why do some cells in a slime mold colony forgo reproduction so other cells can?

  7. FY04 FIBR • Examples of Questions • How do whole molecular networks serve as modular units for function, regulation and evolution? • What are the genetic forces that draw members of an ecological community together? • How much of social behavior is determined by genes and how much influenced by environments?

  8. Research Coordination Networks (RCN) • Support groups of investigators to coordinate their research efforts across disciplinary, organizational, institutional and geographical boundaries. Networks are formed around a focal theme and can involve broad research questions, groups of organisms, or particular technologies or approaches.

  9. RCN WallBioNet fosters interactions among biologists, chemists, physicists, and informaticists to understand the biosynthesis of the plant cell wall. This coordinated effort to address cell wall biosynthesis will lead to fundamental discoveries about plant development and to improvements of cell-wall based products such as fiber, paper, and wood. WallBioNet -- Plant Cell Wall Biosynthesis Research Network

  10. RCN • Deep Time will facilitate, coordinate, and stimulate research at the interface of paleobotany, geology, and systematics/phylogenetics. Its goal is to explore ways in which angiosperm fossils can be integrated into the phylogenetic framework for extant taxa, with the ultimate goal of forming a comprehensive phylogenetic tree of living and fossil angiosperms. • Deep Time Project

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