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

本次研讨会将于2004年1月4-8日在新奥尔良举行的综合与比较生物学学会年会上发表。该研讨会对比较生理学、生态学和进化生理学以及人口和进化生物学等领域的科学家具有广泛的兴趣。本次研讨会将介绍人工选择作为一种强大但未被充分利用的工具，通过提供定义、背景和例子，并包括对方法问题的充分解释，使那些新进入该领域的人能够考虑选择实验的实施。研讨会的演讲者被选择来涵盖一系列的生理系统，并说明模式生物的多样性，包括脊椎动物、无脊椎动物和微生物系统。快速反应已被观察到在许多生理系统跨越广泛的生物阵列。本次研讨会上提出的选择实验结果将说明直接比较重复选择和未选择控制系的力量，以得出关于选择反应的适应性意义和机制基础的结论。综合与比较生物学学会（SICB）是一个拥有2200名成员的科学学会。它是美国首屈一指的综合和比较生物学学会，也是世界上领先的这类学会之一。它在北美每年举办一次会议，其中成员发起的专题讨论会是一个主要特点。近年来，该会议吸引了大约1200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年轻的研究者。通常，超过一半的出席者是博士生、博士后研究员和年轻教师。本次研讨会将展示青年科学家（15位演讲者中的8位）和科学女性（15位演讲者中的4位）的演讲。因此，SICB专题讨论会的发言者可以接触到相关科学界的各个方面，并有年轻科学家的有力代表。新奥尔良SICB会议计划举办一系列专题讨论会、讲习班和特别节目，为研讨会提供了一个接触广泛听众的绝佳机会。

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.