Register by Feb 28 to attend the NSF Rules of Life to Address Societal Challenges virtual event series
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The following is from the website HERE.
In 2016, the National Science Foundation (NSF) unveiled 10 "Big Ideas" - bold, long-term research and process ideas that identified unique opportunities to position our Nation at the cutting edge of global science and engineering by bringing together diverse disciplinary perspectives to support convergence research. One of those, Understanding the Rules of Life, is based on developing a predictive understanding of how key properties of living systems emerge from interactions of factors such as genomes, phenotypes, and dynamic environments (See the link in the box to the right).
Funded projects have addressed “rules” at multiple levels—minimal, interaction, complexity, and emergence—by addressing fundamental questions in life sciences that cross different scales (spatial, temporal, levels of biological organization), produce broadly generalizable results to permit formulating a “rule”, and enable prediction of change in biological systems.
As NSF considers ways to promote use-inspired research that reaches beyond curiosity-driven science, we seek multidisciplinary, community feedback on how researchers can use the emerging Rules of Life to address societal challenges by combining approaches from among all the scientific disciplines, including engineering, mathematics, physical sciences, computer science, geosciences, social, behavioral, and economic sciences, as well as the breadth of biological sciences.
To this end we announce a series of free Virtual Events centered on Using the Rules of Life to Address Societal Challenges. The goal is to bring together researchers with diverse perspectives - including those from all scientific disciplines, with various levels of experience (from senior scientists to postdocs), from different types of institutions or organizations, and from historically underrepresented groups in STEM - to share ideas about how Rules of Life approaches and data might be harnessed by multidisciplinary teams to tackle pressing societal challenges.
The events will include a Virtual Town Hall on March 15, 2022 for NSF to get community feedback on which grand challenges are best-suited to being solved by this convergent approach, as well as innovative ideas on how and what kinds of multidisciplinary teams can solve them. A subsequent series of four Virtual Workshops will be held on four separate days (April 14, 19, 21, and 26, 2022), each focused on a specific challenge defined by the Town Hall discussions.
We encourage scientists from senior researchers through postdocs, and from all branches of science to participate and contribute to the discussion.
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Post-doctoral fellows are encouraged to identify themselves separately to participate in incubators.
Register HERE.