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四年举行一次，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。该基金将为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年国际比较生理学与生物化学大会提供支持。由于IUBS比较生理学和生物化学部门参与社团的全球性质，世界范围内的代表性得到保证，因为预计来自美国和加拿大的主要参与。由于日本和欧洲协会已决定将其年度会议设在1999年卡尔加里大会，因此预计日本和欧洲的注册率也很高。因为这次大会将是一个国际性的展示，这次特别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，pi有大量的专业知识可以提供给来自其他国家的科学家，特别是来自澳大利亚、南美和东欧新成立的pi协会的科学家。由于生物化学和生理过程的广泛适用性，大会涵盖的领域非常广泛-包括对环境干扰的反应控制，视觉控制，神经科学，水产养殖动物生理学甚至恐龙生理学等主题！共安排了46次专题讨论会、6次全体演讲和若干次卫星会议。因此，大会也应该吸引许多其他学科的研究人员。本次大会的最后一个主要目标是让研究生和博士后接触到来自世界各地的最好的研究人员。让这些专家评论他们的研究对这些学生来说是一个主要的动力，他们会珍惜的。这些专家并不局限于比较生理学和生物化学领域。受邀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文件和年轻教师通常也不会接触到他们。对这些参与者来说，获得国家科学基金会的资助尤为重要。pi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.