Project Details
Projekt
Coordination Funds
Applicant
Professorin Dr. Ute Krämer
Subject Area
Plant Physiology
Term
from 2014 to 2020
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 260614964
The central goal of DFP Priority Programme SPP1529 ¿Evolutionary plant solutions to ecological challenges: Molecular mechanisms underlying adaptive traits in the Brassicaceae s.l.¿ is to bring together different scientific disciplines, as well as experimental and in silico approaches, for seminal progress in generating a more comprehensive and deepened understanding of natural variation, ecology and evolution. This capitalizes on recent and ongoing technological developments that generate rapidly increasing amounts of scientifically valuable data of an unprecedented potential, thus emphasizing the need for a rapid and research community-wide integration of these developments into the scientific process. The coordination project has the following objectives. (1) It will accomplish central administrative tasks in communication and organisation. This encompasses, for example, supporting the organization or organizing, as well as preparing, workshops, Annual Meetings, and the ¿International ADAPTOMICS Symposium¿. (2) The scientific role of the coordination is to stimulate and foster information exchange, communication and cooperation in between the individual projects, and to encourage and facilitate the initiation and support the operation of joint initiatives (such as the ¿Arabidopsis Phylogenomics Project¿). (3) The coordination will make activities and results of SPP1529 visible in the scientific community and in public. (4) The coordination project will specifically generate training opportunities for beginning/early-career researchers in the combination of scientific disciplines assembled in ¿ADAPTOMICS¿, such as to bring about a novel discipline. For this, we will take advantage of the expertise and resources assembled in SPP1529 to generate a flexible, practically tested teaching class module for interdisciplinary scientific training, which combines and teaches the ADAPTOMICS disciplines by introducing the diverse conceptual approaches and training participants in basic theoretical and hands-on practical skills. An integral part of this will be to provide all required texts, literature, data, information, tools and biological resources for teachers in an accessible and approachable form. The module will be designed with attention to the ease of adaptation to differing University environments. It is intended to enable University teachers from within and outside SPP1529 to teach, at a basic level, contents that are peripheral or even outside their own field. Once introduced, the trainees are in a position to deepen their knowledge by targeting specialized courses. Finally, further goals are (5) targeted activities for gender equality and (6) career development of junior scientists though start-up funding for topical independent research projects. A central element of the coordination project is the internet resource (www.adaptomics.de) which bundles coordination activities.
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