Progress 08/15/19 to 08/14/20
Outputs
Target Audience:Phenomics is an interdisciplinary science where plant systems biology, epigenetics, quantitative genetics, metabolomics, and network analyses intersect with intensive computational science and engineering, technologies for remote sensing, imaging, and robotics. Phenome 2019 was held February 6-9, 2019 in Tucson, Arizona, the third in what has been an annual conference series designed to accelerate U.S. research in this emerging field. Because the field is growing rapidly, we work to keep each Phenome meeting on the cutting edge, retaining flexibility to incorporate new topics and program formats each year. The conference incorporated phenomics technologies that enable crop biotechnology, computational, engineering, and plant biology research; it included international and domestic speakers, well-established and junior; and it stimulated interdisciplinary alliances while identifying key challenges in the field. The meeting featured plenary talks each day, with opportunities for meaningful engagement during lunchtime poster sessions and a technology session that featured emerging commercialization opportunities and technical innovations. The meeting highlighted graduate student and postdoctoral research through lightning and short talks selected from submitted abstracts, as well as poster sessions. Primary goalswere to foster collaboration and, in association with the North American Plant Phenotyping Network, and to build an interdisciplinary community around a research area important to the future of U.S. agriculture and ecological preservation aims. Changes/Problems:
Nothing Reported
What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?The structure of the Phenome conference is designed to allow extensive networking, and all award recipients participated vigorously in these activities. Moreover, those who received speaker awards were front-and-center on the program, with additional visibility and associated professional development opportunities. Many of the registration awardees presented posters, providing networking and engagement opportunities. How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?Although there has beeen no formal dissemination of outputs from this conference, ASPB has supported a rich community of Phenomics researchers via the Plantae network. Information and activity related to the conference supported by this grant may be found via the following link: https://community.plantae.org/organization/plant-phenomics/dashboard What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?
Nothing Reported
Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals?
Funds allowed us to make three speaker awards, with each awardee selected to ensure a robust presence on the program for early career engineering and computer science researchers. Each speaker awardee received a travel stipend, accommodations support, and conference registration, with a total value (per award) of $2,175. Funds also allowed us to make 24 additional registration-only awards. Half of these were made to graduate students, and the other half to postdocs and faculty-level attendees. In all instances, registration awardees were selected in a manner aimed at increasing the diversity of the overall attendee pool. Finally, the award included modest salary support for staff required to administer the above-mentioned awards. The staff member worked closely with the conference organizers to identify award recipients.
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