Group Travel and Workshop: International Congress of Systematic and Evolutionary Biology, September 2002, Patras, Greece

0236743MickevichThis Group Travel / Workshop grant provides partial support for a U.S. delegation of ca. 65名科学家将出席2002年第六届国际系统与进化生物学大会。 大会的标题和主题是“信息时代的生物多样性”，突出了通过因特网获取有关全世界植物、动物、真菌和细菌的物种组成、系统发育关系、分布和丰度的信息的日益重要性。ICSEB的目的是促进系统学家和进化生物学家之间的国际交流和沟通。在这些生物学领域的国际和国家会议通常是专门的分类组或方法的做法。由于1996年在匈牙利举行的上一次会议向东欧国家开放了国际空间科学理事会，第六次国际空间科学理事会将包括来自巴尔干、近东、亚洲和太平洋国家的科学家。在过去的十年中，几个主要问题促使科学界改变了工作重点。这些是基于网络的信息学和分子测序技术的革命，以及全球生物多样性危机。由于计算能力和分子测序技术的革命，在过去的十年里，进化理论发生了变化，我们对生命之树的认识也取得了重大突破，生命之树是所有物种之间的系谱关系图。此外，这些技术的独特应用创造了一种新的比较方法来研究生物体的发展：进化发展或“进化-发育”。“选择信息时代的生物多样性这一主题是为了反映系统学和进化生物学的最新进展。25个主要专题讨论会的210名特邀发言人都是各自领域的领导人，来自20多个国家（见大会网站www.icseb-vi.biology.upatras.gr）。要解决的问题包括：培训下一代分类学专家;建立科学家团队，为所有生物体构建通用的生命树;探索创建一个可通过网络访问的所有生物体形态和解剖信息数据矩阵（“MorphoBank”的概念，类似于GenBank）;加速生物多样性库存，以完成地球所有物种的库存。第六届国际系统和进化生物学理事会将于2002年9月9日至16日在希腊帕特雷大学校园举行，由帕特雷大学和国际系统和进化生物学组织（IOSEB）联合主办。新的会议中心和城镇可容纳多达1000名与会者。演讲摘要和更完整的会议记录将在大会结束后张贴在会议网站和各种专业媒体和期刊上。

0236743MickevichThis Group Travel / Workshop grant provides partial support for a U.S. delegation of ca. 65 scientists to attend the 2002 meeting of the 6th International Congress of Systematic and Evolutionary Biology (ICSEB-VI). The title and theme of the Congress, Biodiversity in the Information Age, highlight the growing importance of Internet access to information on the species composition, phylogenetic relationships, distribution, and abundance of plants, animals, fungi, and bacteria throughout the world. The purpose of ICSEB is to facilitate international exchange and communication among systematists and evolutionary biologists. International and national meetings in these areas of biology are usually specialized either by taxonomic group or methodological approach. As the previous meeting in Hungary in 1996 opened ICSEB to Eastern European Countries, ICSEB-VI will include scientists from countries in the Balkans, the Near East, Asia and the Pacific. In the last decade, several prime issues have stimulated the scientific community to shift emphasis in their work. These are revolutions in web-based informatics and molecular sequencing techniques, and the global biodiversity crises. Because of the revolution in computational abilities and molecular sequencing techniques, the last decade has seen changes in evolutionary theory and major breakthroughs in our knowledge of the Tree of Life, the map of genealogical relationships among all species. Also, unique applications of these techniques have created a new comparative approach to the study of organismal development: evolutionary development or "Evo-Devo." The theme, Biodiversity in the Information Age, was chosen to reflect these recent advances in Systematics and Evolutionary Biology. The 210 invited speakers for the 25 major symposia are among the leaders in their field, and from over 20 countries (described on the Congress website at www.icseb-vi.biology.upatras.gr ). Topics to be addressed include: training of the next generation of taxonomic experts; building teams of scientists to construct the universal Tree of Life for all organisms; exploring the creation of a web-accessible data matrix of morphological and anatomical information on all organisms (the concept of "MorphoBank," analogous to GenBank); accelerating biodiversity inventories toward completion of an All-Species inventory for planet Earth. ICSEB-VI will take place on the campus of the University of Patras in Greece from 9-16 September, 2002, under the joint sponsorship of the University of Patras and IOSEB, the International Organization of Systematic and Evolutionary Biology. The new Conference center and the town can accommodate up to one thousand attendees. Abstracts of the presentations and fuller proceedings are to be posted to the conference website and to various specialty outlets and journals following the Congress.