SICB Symposium: Frontiers of Integrative Biology: A Symposium Honoring George A. Bartholomew, January 5-9, 2004

本次研讨会将于2004年1月在路易斯安那州新奥尔良举行的综合与比较生物学学会年会上举行。本次研讨会得到了SICB多个部门的广泛支持，并被选为本次会议仅有的三个SICB范围的研讨会之一。本次研讨会有三个主要目标：1。强调整合生物学中令人兴奋的新方向和新应用；2. 突出处于职业生涯早期至中期的杰出综合生物学家；和3。纪念乔治·a·巴塞洛缪，综合生物学的奠基人。主讲人将是乔治·a·巴塞洛缪奖的前十位获奖者。自1993年以来，该奖项每年颁发给在比较生理学、比较生物化学或功能生物学相关领域的杰出青年研究者。所有的演讲者都相对年轻，但都已经积累了非凡的成就（10人中有2人获得了麦克阿瑟奖）。此外，威廉·r·道森（巴塞洛缪的第一个学生）将以研究员和导师的身份介绍乔治·巴塞洛缪的历史。乔治·A·巴塞洛缪（George A. Bartholomew）将担任特邀嘉宾，他将结束研讨会，并就从综合生物学事业中获得的经验教训这一主题发表演讲。这些主题经过精心挑选，以阐明当代整合生物学研究的三个重要和活跃的领域：1。探索形态学、生物力学和神经生物学之间的相互作用，2。结合比较生理学、内分泌学和行为生态学；整合功能生物学，生态学和保护。因此，研讨会将有助于鼓励整合和功能生物学的新兴研究力量和应用。这次专题讨论会将是新奥尔良会议的核心。它将增加对生物学综合方法的力量以及在保护生物学等领域的新应用的日益增长的兴奋。通过邀请年轻的研究人员，组织者希望激励研究生和博士后在综合生物学领域追求事业，并扩大这一领域。此外，它将给几代新一代的生物学家一个机会，以满足和讨论两位开创性的人物和导师在综合生物学（巴塞洛缪和道森）。最后，本次研讨会的所有报告将发表在《综合与比较生物学》杂志上，因此国际观众将有机会获得会议记录。

This symposium will be held at the January 2004 Annual Meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, in New Orleans, Louisiana. This symposium has broad support from many divisions of SICB, and was selected as one of only three SICB-wide symposia for this meeting. The symposium has three major goals: 1. Highlight exciting new directions in, and new applications of, integrative biology; 2. Feature outstanding integrative biologists who are still early to mid-career; and 3. Honor George A. Bartholomew, a founding figure in integrative biology. The primary speakers will be the first ten winners of the George A. Bartholomew Award. Since 1993, this award has been given annually to a Distinguished Young Investigator in Comparative Physiology, Comparative Biochemistry, or Related Fields of Functional Biology. All speakers are relatively young, but all have already amassed an extraordinary record of accomplishments (two of the 10 have won MacArthur Awards). In addition, William R. Dawson (Bartholomew's first student) will provide an historical introduction to George Bartholomew as a researcher and mentor. A special feature will be George A. Bartholomew, who will conclude the symposium and take on the topic of lessons gained from a career in integrative biology. The topics have been carefully selected to elucidate three important and active areas of contemporary research in integrative biology: 1. exploring the interplay among morphology, biomechanics, and neurobiology, 2. integrating comparative physiology, endocrinology, and behavioral ecology, and 3. integrating functional biology, ecology, and conservation. Thus the symposium will help encourage emerging research strengths in, and applications of integrative and functional biology. This symposium will be the centerpiece of the New Orleans meeting. It will add to the growing excitement over the power of integrative approaches to biology as well as new applications to areas such as conservation biology. By featuring young investigators, the organizers hope to inspire graduate students and postdocs to pursue careers in and expand the field of integrative biology. Moreover, it will give several new generations of biologists an opportunity to meet and talk with two seminal figures and mentors in integrative biology (Bartholomew and Dawson). Finally, all presentations in this symposium will be published in the journal Integrative and Comparative Biology, and thus an international audience will have access to the proceedings.