SICB Symposium Support: Selection Experiments as a Tool in Evolutionary and Comparative Physiology, January 5-9, 2004

这次研讨会将在2004年1月4日至8日在新奥尔良举行的综合和比较生物学学会年会上发表。这次研讨会，是广泛的兴趣，在比较，生态和进化生理学，以及人口和进化生物学领域的科学家。本次研讨会将介绍人工选择作为一个强大的，但未充分利用的工具，通过提供定义，背景和例子，并包括方法问题的充分解释，让那些新的领域考虑实施选择实验。研讨会的发言人已被选定涵盖一系列的生理系统，并说明了模式生物的多样性，包括脊椎动物，无脊椎动物和微生物系统。在许多生物体的许多生理系统中都观察到了快速反应。在这次研讨会上提出的选择实验的结果将说明的权力之间的直接比较复制选择和选择控制线得出结论的适应意义和选择的反应机制的基础。综合与比较生物学学会（SICB）是一个拥有约2,200名成员的科学学会。它是这个国家综合和比较生物学的首要学会，也是世界上领先的此类学会之一。它在北美主办了一次年会，由成员发起的专题讨论会是年会的一个主要特点。近年来，这一会议吸引了大约1 200名与会者，包括SICB成员和非成员。这次会议的一个值得注意的特点是它强调青年调查员。通常情况下，出席会议的人中有一半以上是博士。学生，博士后研究员和年轻的教师。这次研讨会展示了青年科学家（15位发言者中的8位）和科学界妇女（15位发言者中的4位）的演讲。因此，SICB专题讨论会的发言者接触到相关科学界的各个部门和青年科学家的强有力代表。有一些专题讨论会，研讨会和特别节目计划为新奥尔良SICB会议，提供了一个很好的机会，专题讨论会，以达到广泛的观众。

This symposium will be presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology to be held in New Orleans, January 4-8, 2004. The symposium, is of broad interest to scientists in the fields of comparative, ecological, and evolutionary physiology, as well as population and evolutionary biology. This symposium will introduce artificial selection as a powerful but underutilized tool by providing definitions, background, and examples, and by including sufficient explanation of methodological issues to allow those new to the field to contemplate implementation of a selection experiment. Symposium speakers have been chosen to cover a range of physiological systems and to illustrate a diversity of model organisms, including vertebrate, invertebrate, and microbial systems. Rapid response has been observed in many physiological systems across a wide array of organisms. Results from selection experiments presented in this symposium will illustrate the power of direct comparison between replicated selected and unselected control lines for drawing conclusions about the adaptive significance and the mechanistic basis of responses to selection. The Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB) is a scientific society of about 2,200 members. It is the premier society for integrative and comparative biology in this country, and among the leading such societies in the world. It sponsors an annual meeting in North America, at which member-originated symposia are a major feature. In recent years this meeting has attracted approximately 1,200 attendees, both SICB members and non-members. A noteworthy feature of this meeting is its emphasis on young investigators. Typically, more than half of those in attendance are Ph.D. students, postdoctoral fellows, and young faculty. This symposium showcases presentations by young scientists (8 of 15 speakers) and women in science (4 of 15 speakers). Thus, SICB symposium speakers receive exposure to a cross-section of the relevant scientific community and a strong representation of young scientists. There are a number of symposia, workshops and special programs planned for the New Orleans SICB meeting, providing an excellent opportunity for the symposium to reach a broad audience.