International Symbiosis Society Congress Support, August 17-23, 2003, Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Nova Scotia

国际共生协会大会支持，2003 年 8 月 17-23 日，圣玛丽大学，哈利法克斯，新斯科舍省

• 批准号: 0212896
• 负责人: Douglas Zook
• 金额: $ 1.5万
• 依托单位: Trustees of Boston University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-03-01 至 2004-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0212896&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: International; Symbiosis; Society; Congress; Support

The International Symbiosis Society based at Boston University requests support for theplanning and convening of its next scientific research Congress set for August 17 - 23,2003 at Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Nova Scotia. Five hundred participants are expected, most working in specific symbiotic systems such as mycorrhizae-plant interactions, endophytic fungi and grasses, nitrogen fixing bacteria/cyanobacteria and their hosts, hermatypic corals and dinoflagellates, lichens, insect and rumen gut microfauna, Azolla/Oryza sativa growth enhancement, and orchid ecology.Keynote speakers/leaders for the symposia include David Read, U. of Sussex, UK;Birgitta Bergman, Stockholm U.; Margaret McFall-Ngai, U. of Hawaii; Angela Douglas,YorkU., UK; Jan Sapp, U. of Montreal; Lynn Margulis, U. of Massachusetts; and OveHoegh-Guldberg, Queensland U., Australia, among others. Congress organizers are SocietyPresident Douglas Zook biologist and science educator at Boston University and who is theP.I., and David Richardson, Dean of Science and lichenologist at Saint Mary's University,Halifax.The Society is particularly unique in that it by its very nature it builds bridgesamong biologists/ecologists who would otherwise remain separated. Therefore, the mainobjective of the Congress is to provide a special world forum where symbiologists canoptimally exchange knowledge and ideas. Also, its dialogue and outcomes will contribute toa greater understanding of global ecology, regional ecosystem function, and cell biology;encourage involvement in ecology in general and symbiosis in particular by students; and,actively promote content and curriculum enhancement in symbiosis for both pre-college anduniversity teachers.A focus theme of the Congress will be global threats to keystone symbionts, such asbleaching of zooxanthellae, lichen susceptibility to sulfur dioxide and related emissions,and the demise of larger symbiont-containing foraminifera. This theme further emphasizesthe deep but often ignored role symbiosis plays in earth systems and human society.Agriculture, forestry, biome establishment, restoration ecology, coral reef existence, andfundamental understandings of the eukarya cell are all substantiually dependent onsymbiosis.More then fifty per cent of the funds for the Congress will be covered by registrantfees and some projected private corporate support. The ISS seeks additional support fromthe NSF to help defray travel costs for graduate students; to provide travel and relatedsupport for featured speakers; to assist teacher attendance and support a symbiosisteacher workshop at the Congress; and to cover costs of key publications, such as specialeditions of the ISS newsletter, Symbiosis International, which will highlight Congressannouncements, conference schedule booklet, and the Congress abstract book.Ongoing post-Congress contact will be mainained through a web exchange network on theISS web sites (Congress web site is http://people.bu.edu/dzook/), and selected papers fromthe Congress will be published during 2004 in a special issue of the ISS affiliatedjournal, Symbiosis, published out of Tel Aviv.

总部设在波士顿大学的国际共生学会请求支持其计划和召开的下一届科学研究大会定于2003年8月17日至23日在新斯科舍省哈利法克斯的圣玛丽大学举行。预计将有500名参与者，其中大多数研究特定的共生系统，如菌根-植物相互作用，内生真菌和草，固氮细菌/蓝藻及其宿主，两性珊瑚和鞭毛藻，地衣，昆虫和瘤胃肠道微动物，Azolla/Oryza sativa生长促进和兰花生态学。研讨会的主讲人/领导人包括英国苏塞克斯大学的David Read；柏吉塔·伯格曼，斯德哥尔摩大学；Margaret McFall-Ngai，夏威夷大学；安吉拉•道格拉斯YorkU。英国;简·萨普，蒙特利尔大学；林恩·马古利斯，马萨诸塞州大学；以及澳大利亚昆士兰州的OveHoegh-Guldberg等。大会组织者是波士顿大学生物学家和科学教育家协会主席道格拉斯·祖克，他是首席检察官。David Richardson，哈利法克斯圣玛丽大学科学学院院长和地衣学家。该学会的独特之处在于，它在生物学家/生态学家之间架起了桥梁，否则他们将保持分离。因此，大会的主要目标是提供一个特殊的世界论坛，让共生生物学家能够最佳地交流知识和思想。此外，其对话和成果将有助于更好地理解全球生态学、区域生态系统功能和细胞生物学；鼓励学生参与生态学，特别是共生；积极推进大学预科教师与大学教师共生的内容与课程提升。大会的一个重点主题将是对关键共生体的全球威胁，如虫黄藻的漂白，地衣对二氧化硫及其相关排放物的敏感性，以及大型共生体含有有孔虫的灭绝。这一主题进一步强调了共生在地球系统和人类社会中所起的深刻但往往被忽视的作用。农业、林业、生物群落的建立、恢复生态学、珊瑚礁的存在以及对真核细胞的基本认识都在本质上依赖于共生。大会超过50%的资金将由注册费和一些预计的私人企业支持支付。国际空间站寻求国家科学基金会的额外支持，以帮助支付研究生的旅费；为特邀演讲者提供旅行和相关支持；协助教师出勤，并支持在大会上举办“共生教师研讨会”；并支付主要出版物的费用，例如国际空间站通讯的特别版，共生国际，它将突出会议公告，会议日程手册和会议摘要书。大会结束后，双方将通过国际空间站网站上的网络交流网络（大会网站为http://people.bu.edu/dzook/）保持持续的联系。2004年，国际空间站附属杂志《共生》将在特拉维夫出版的一期特刊上发表来自大会的部分论文。