Reflections on the National Science Foundation's Understanding the Rules of Life Program Proceedings of a Workshop Series (2023) / Chapter Skim
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The National Science Foundation's Big Ideaon Understanding the Rules of Life
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... ; that produce broadly generalizable results to permit formulating a "rule"; and that enable prediction of change in biological systems. Additional goals of the URoL initiative include training the next generation of researchers to work across scales and scientific disciplines, building the capacity to approach increasingly complex questions in the life sciences, and fostering the collaboration and convergent research necessary to accomplish its scientific aims.
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... BOX T-1 Statement of Task The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will convene an ad hoc planning committee to review multidisciplinary collaboration and scientific advances in the National Science Foundation's Understanding the Rules of Life (URoL) Big Idea program.
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... NOTE: Since 2016, more than 100 principal investigators were awarded funding to identify generalizable rules that govern biological systems at micro and macro levels. SOURCE: Created with information from the NSF URoL program websites.
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... , these virtual workshops aimed to develop a picture of scientific advancements and rules of life that were beginning to emerge from the funded projects; to learn how research groups incorporated multidisciplinary, systems-level approaches into their work, and how this informed findings and contributed to achievements; to identify opportunities for exploration through which future societal needs and scientific questions might be addressed by the URoL program; and to identify rules of life generalizable across fields and scales. This workshop proceedings is the rapporteur's summary of all four workshops, including moderated discussions with PIs, material submitted in writing from PIs prior to the workshop (including from several PIs who could not participate in the live discussions)


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