FY07 Setting the Stage

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FY07 Setting the Stage

• Dr. Mary E. Clutter
• Dr. Joann Roskoski
• April 7, 2005

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Criteria for Developing BIO Priorities

• Demonstrable Added Value
• in advancing science
• over what NSF is doing now
• Readiness/Timeliness
• is the community ready to respond?
• Impact
• on the science community
• within NSF

• NSF Role
• NSF as lead
• NSF a minor (but possibly important) player
• Synergy
• interaction with other agencies
• within NSF
• Partnerships
• within NSF
• other agencies
• state, private foundations, international

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Process for Identifying and Selecting BIO Budget
Themes
Proposals Scientific Meetings Scientific
Publications Panel Discussions Workshops
Program Officer One-Pagers

• Identify Leading Edge Research
• Where Conducted
• US/Foreign Countries
• Universities
• Govt /Industrial Labs
• Gaps Opportunities

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Process for Identifying and Selecting BIO
Priority Areas (continued)
Leading Edge Discussions
Emerging Opportunities Identified
Science Retreat--BIO Senior Management
Opportunities for Near and Long-Term Development
Working Groups Synthesis Papers
BIO AC
NSF OD / Budget Prep
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Leading Edge Symposium

• Goal
• Identify 3-5 Leading Edge Themes in Biology
• Process
• One day meeting of entire Directorate
• Division Presentations
• Discussion of the Whole
• Feedback on themes and process elicited from
  attendees

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Some Themes/Issues Identified from All BIO
Discussion and Follow-up

• Understanding complex, multi-scale biological
  systems in temporal and environmental context
• Plasticity and variation
• Promise of genomics approaches
• Promise of cyberinfrastructure for
• Storage/curation of long-lived data and physical
  collections
• Simulation, modeling and computation
• Experimentation/monitoring (sensors)

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FY 07 Planning Process contd

• Senior Management Science Retreat
• Theme Development
• Presentation of Themes to BIO AC and Discussion
• Further Theme Development via PO Working Groups

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Research Themes and Cyber Enablers

• Biological Processes in Real Time and Real Space
• Organisms as Integrators in a Changing
  Environment
• Drivers and Effects of Emergent Phenomena