FY07
Setting the Stage
Dr. Mary E. Clutter
Dr. Joann Roskoski
April 7, 2005
Major Challenges
FY 2005 - 2009
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Overcome 20th century barriers
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Broaden participation
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Reshape education
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Facilitate public understanding of science
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Provide infrastructure
Criteria for Developing
BIO Priorities
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Demonstrable Added Value
• in advancing science
• over what NSF is doing now
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NSF Role
 NSF as lead
 NSF a minor (but possibly
important) player
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Readiness/Timeliness
 is the community ready to
respond?
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Synergy
 interaction with other agencies
 within NSF
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Impact
 on the science community
 within NSF
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Partnerships
 within NSF
 other agencies
 state, private foundations,
international
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
Gov’t /Industrial Labs
Gaps & Opportunities
Process for Identifying and Selecting
BIO Priority Areas (continued)
Emerging Opportunities Identified
Leading Edge
Discussions
Science Retreat--BIO Senior Management
Opportunities for Near and
Long-Term Development
BIO AC
Working Groups & Synthesis Papers
NSF OD / Budget Prep
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
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:
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Storage/curation of long-lived data and physical
collections
Simulation, modeling and computation
Experimentation/monitoring (sensors)
FY 07 Planning Process cont’d
 Senior Management Science Retreat
 Theme Development
 Presentation of Themes to BIO AC and
Discussion
 Further Theme Development via PO
Working Groups
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