Announcement-2021
Scialog Conferences; November 6,
2020
Agency
Research
Corporation for Science Advancement
Description:
The
Research Corporation for Science Advancement is inviting nominations for two new
Scialog (Science Dialog) conferences for 2021:
Advancing BioImaging (co-sponsored by the
Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative and the Frederick Gardner Cottrell Foundation) and
Mitigating Zoonotic Threats (funded by the United States Department of
Agriculture). Each conference (see below for more detailed descriptions)
will bring together about 50 Fellows (faculty from their first year through soon
after tenure) and 10 Facilitators (senior faculty who guide the discussions)
over 3½ days, with the goal of launching innovative, collaborative,
interdisciplinary projects that we and our foundation partners support with
one-year grants of $50,000 per Fellow on each funded
team.
Advancing
BioImaging
(May 20-23, 2021): The goal of this Scialog will be
to assemble approximately 50 early-career scientists with wide-ranging expertise
who wish to apply their skills toward developing the next generation of imaging
technologies that will enhance the ability to study tissues at cellular or
sub-cellular resolution and to map biological processes within and throughout
organisms.
Mitigating
Zoonotic Threats
(September 16-19, 2021): This Scialog will bring
together early-career scientists from multiple disciplines (including chemists,
biologists, physicists, computer scientists, veterinary scientists,
epidemiologists and public health specialists) along with scientists from
federal agencies and thought leaders in the detection and mitigation of
existing and emerging zoonotic threats. They will form an interdisciplinary
community to catalyze basic scientific advances related to: rapid detection,
identification, and diagnosis of pathogens and threats; mechanisms and
inhibition of emerging and zoonotic disease pathogenesis; new approaches to
vaccine development including methods that speed development or lead to
broad-spectrum immunity; and modeling of epidemiology leading to actionable
approaches to mitigating transmission.
To
nominate one or more faculty as a Scialog Fellow,
please use the form available at: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/2021_ScialogFellow_nomination_form.
Nominations will require the nominee’s ORCID ID, NSF or NIH biosketch
or equivalent short-version CV, and a brief description of the faculty member’s
research area and methodological approach. Self-nominations are
accepted.
Closing
Date:
November
6, 2020
Link
to Full Announcement: (
for
Advancing Bioimaging) https://rescorp.org/scialog/advancing-bioimaging;
(for Mitigating Zoonotic Threats) https://rescorp.org/scialog/mitigating-zoonotic-threats
Contact
Information:
Andrew
Feig, Ph.D.,
Program
Director