CONFERENCE: Travel Support for 5th International Congress of Comparative Physiology and Biochemistry to be held in Calgary, Alberta, Canada from August 23-28, 1999.

国际比较生理学和生物化学大会每4年举行一次，以促进世界范围内比较生理学家和生物化学家的会议，报告和讨论这些比较学科的当前趋势、结果和问题。这笔赠款用于资助将于1999年8月23日至28日在加拿大阿尔伯塔省卡尔加里举行的1999年国际比较生理学和生物化学大会。由于IUBS比较生理学和生化分部的参与学会的全球性，确保了全球代表性，预计美国和加拿大的主要参与者也是如此。由于日本和欧洲学会已决定将其年度会议安排在1999年卡尔加里大会上，预计日本和欧洲也会有较高的登记率。由于本届大会将是一个国际展示窗口，本届大会的一个主要目标将是突出和说明北美比较生理学家和生物化学家的工作。这些学科长期以来一直是北美的专业，私人投资机构可以向来自其他国家的科学家提供丰富的专业知识，特别是来自澳大利亚、南美洲和东欧新成立的私人投资公司协会的科学家。由于生化和生理过程的广泛适用性，大会涉及的领域非常广泛-包括对环境干扰反应的控制、视觉控制、神经科学、水产养殖中的动物生理学，甚至恐龙生理学！共安排了46次专题讨论会、6次全体讲座和几次卫星会议。因此，大会还应该吸引许多来自其他学科的研究人员。这次大会的最后一个主要目标是让研究生和博士后研究员接触到来自世界各地的他们所在领域的最好的研究人员。让这些专家对他们的研究发表评论是这些学生的主要动机，也是他们将珍视的。这些专家并不局限于比较生理学和生物化学领域。被邀请的演讲者中有许多其他领域的专家，他们通常不会参加这些会议，研究生、PDF和年轻教职员工通常不会接触到他们。对这些参与者来说，授予国家科学基金会的资助尤为重要。PIS的最终目标是使这次会议取得重大成功，这可能是多年来在北美举行的最后一次会议。

The International Congress for Comparative Physiology and Bichemistry is held every 4 years to facilitate the meeting of comparative phsiologists and biochemists world wide to report and discuss current trends resutlts and issues in these comparative disciplines. This grant provides support for the 1999 International Congress for Comparative Physiology and Biochemistry to be held in Calgary, Alberta, Canada from August 23-28, 1999. Due to the global nature of the participating societies of the Comparative Physiology and Biochemistry Division of IUBS, worldwide representation is assured, as is major participation from expected from the US and Canada. High registration is also expected from Japan and Europe since the Japanese and European societies have decided to locate their annual meetings at the 1999 Calgary Congress. Because this Congress will be an international showcase, a major objective of this particular congress will be to highlight and illustrate work of North-American comparative physiologists and biochemists. These disciplines have long been specialities in North America, and the PIs have tremendous expertise to offer to scientists from other countries especially those from the PIs newly incorporated societies from Australaisa, South America and Eastern Europe. Because of the wide applicability of biochemical and physiological processes, the ground covered in the Congress is very broad - including topics such as the control of responses to environment disturbance, the control of vision, neuroscience, the physiology of animals in aquaculture and even dinosaur phsiology! A total of 46 symposia, 6 plenary lectures and several satelite meetings are programmed. Thus the Congress should also attract many researchers from other disciplines. A final major objective of this congress is to expose graduate students and post-doctoral fellows to the best researchers in their area from all over the world. Having these experts comment on their research is a major motivator for these students and one which they will treasure. These experts are not restricted to the fields of comparative physiology and biochemistry. Among the invited speakers are many experts in other fields who would not normally attend these meetings and to whom graduate students, PDFs and younger faculty would not normally be exposed. The awarding of NSF funding is particularly important for these participants. The PIs final objective is to make this meeting, probably the last at a North American venue for many years, a major sucess.