International Meeting on Evolutionary and Contemporary Biology of Elasmobranchs; Rome, Italy, July 1988

该奖项将支持一个国际会议， 板鳃类鱼类的进化生物学。 的 板鳃类，其中包括鲨鱼，溜冰鞋和 黄貂鱼是一种重要的脊椎动物， 在大约3.5亿年前与它们的姐妹分开 全头类动物保存了许多 形态特征变化不大。 作为 因此，板鳃类代表了一种未被开发的模式， 可以用来研究许多重要的 生物和进化过程。 这次国际会议由威廉·C. 俄亥俄州医学院的Hamlett教授和 意大利那不勒斯动物站的布鲁诺·托塔， 将为科学家们提供一个机会， 脊椎动物组织介绍最近的研究结果， 交流信息和规划未来的研究方向 和合作。 会议将重点讨论三个方面：1） 生殖，2）神经科学，3）系统生物学/ physiology.重点将是研究利用 当代科学技术以及研究， 把相关的研究结果放在进化的背景下。

This award will support an international meeting on the evolutionary biology of elasmobranch fishes. The elasmobranchs, which include the sharks, skates and stingrays, constitute an important vertebrate group that, having diverged some 350 million years ago from their sister group the holocephalans, have conserved many of their morphological characteristics with very little change. As such, the elasmobranchs represent an under exploited model system that may be employed to investigate many important biological and evolutionary processes. This international meeting, organized by Prof. William C. Hamlett of the Medical College of Ohio together with Prof. Bruno Tota of the Naples Zoological Station in Naples, Italy, will provide an opportunity for scientists working with this vertebrate group to present recent research findings, exchange information and plan future directions for research and collaboration. The meeting will focus on three areas: 1) reproduction, 2) neuroscience, and 3) systems biology/ physiology. Emphasis will be on research utilizing contemporary scientific techniques as well as studies that place relevant research results in an evolutionary context.