The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's Board on Life Sciences (BLS) is seeking nominations of experts to serve on a new study committee that will review the role of biological collections in research and education.
For this task, the expert committee will focus on living stocks (organisms) and preserved repositories of biodiversity specimens and materials that are financially supported in full or in part by the National Science Foundation. The committee will describe the major advances in the use of collections over the last decade; envision future innovative ways in which biological collections can be utilized; describe the greatest challenges to maintaining biological collections; and suggest a range of long-term strategies that could be used for their sustained support, individually or in groups, of research and education.
BLS is seeking nominees for experts that reflect the diversity of life sciences research activities conducted using biological collections including, but not limited to:
Biodiversity
Marine Science
Ecology
Environmental Science
Evolutionary Biology
Ideal candidates also will have expertise in one or more of the following:
Collection curation and management
Data management and storage
Imaging technologies
Formal and informal education
Financial administration
Broad knowledge of biological collections and their use in research and education
Self-nominations are accepted. Nominations are requested no later than Friday, September 21, 2018.
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