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Title: Plant Virus Biodiversity and Ecology PVBE


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Plant Virus Biodiversity and Ecology (PVBE)
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Plant Virus Biodiversity and Ecology (PVBE)
  • Selling points
  • Existing strengths
  • Central idea
  • Uniqueness

3
Strengths
  • Plant virology
  • Ecology
  • Genome Biology
  • Bioinformatics

4
General Central Idea
Two Worlds of Biological Science
Molecular
Environmental
5
One World of Biological Science
Molecular
Environmental
Transformative Research
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Specific Central Idea
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Uniqueness
Plant Virus Evolution
Plant Virus Biodiversity Ecology
Plant Ecology
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Half-way Point
  • Where are we?
  • Science
  • Research Infrastructure
  • Broader Impacts

9
Science at the Half-way Point
  • Biodiversity methods developed (2/3)
  • Viruses are frequent
  • Viruses are novel
  • Other microbes
  • Subtle effects of virus infection

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Infrastructure at the Half-way Point
  • Further funding
  • NSF 5000 Viral Genomes (Roossinck, Roe)
  • NSF Plant Virus Ecology Research Coordination
    Network (Melcher, Malmström)
  • USDA-CREES National Needs Fellowships (Fletcher,
    Melcher, Allen)
  • Critical mass
  • Kelly Craven
  • Andrew Doust
  • Five graduate students
  • Postdocs

11
Outreach at the Half-way Point
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Challenges at the Half-way Point
  • What has to be done in 1.5 yrs?
  • Speed up biodiversity study
  • Facilitate ecology study
  • Support for graduate students to complete
    degrees
  • Solidify support large scale funding
  • Bottom line at end of 3 yr EPSCoR support we
    will have made good progress towards goals, but
    will not have quite reached them.

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Center Building
  • Reaching out (some examples)
  • Plant-associated microbes
  • Animal roles in microbe dissemination
    (arthropods, bison, nematodes)
  • NA hybridization complexity (math, chem,
    physics)
  • Plant viruses in natural vs. managed lands
  • Microbial roles in LIHD crops
  • Forensic microbiology in agricultural
    biosecurity
  • Others?

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Plant Virus Biodiversity and Ecology (PVBE)
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