Symposium: Evolutionary Innovation; New Orleans, Louisiana; January, 2004

这个项目描述的是一个关于进化创新的研讨会，将于2004年1月5日至9日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。该研讨会是由学会进化发育生物学分部组织的以前专题讨论会的主题延续，该分部也得到了国家科学基金会的支持。本次研讨会的目的是强调进化发育生物学（EvoDevo）的一个具有历史意义的重要领域，这个领域在过去的一个世纪里很少受到发育和进化生物学家的关注：进化创新。这是在系统发育过程中如何产生新的表型特征的问题，这一现象仅关注遗传变异的调查没有充分解决。然而，在发育生物学的最新进展中，我们发现了一些机制，这些机制可以为进化的新颖性提供基础，而不仅仅是增量变异。这次研讨会是发育生物学和进化生物学的交叉点，它之所以重要，有几个原因。首先，独立研究创新问题的个别研究人员将被召集到一起，了解所采用的各种方法。其次，EvoDevo新领域创新主题的特殊相关性将向更广泛的受众展示。第三，将实证结果整合到扩展的进化论理论框架中将会得到促进。第四，与进化创新问题的发展分析明确相关的新研究议程将得到加强，从而明显扩大EvoDevo的范围。为了实现这些目标，我们召集了一批演讲者，他们代表了各自领域中最杰出的一些人，他们都在自己的工作中谈到了创新问题。它包括研究大规模创新模式的古生物学家，研究植物和动物特定案例的发育生物学家，专注于调控基因组进化的分子生物学家，研究发展进化的计算生物学家，以及关注这类工作对进化理论影响的进化生物学家。据我们所知，这将是第一次针对EvoDevo研究人员社区的全面创新研讨会。

0343073NewmanThe project described is a Symposium on Evolutionary Innovation, to be held during the annual meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology in New Orleans, Louisiana, on January 5-9, 2004. The symposium is a thematic continuation of previous symposia organized by the Division of Evolutionary Developmental Biology of the Society that also received support from the National Science Foundation. The goal of this symposium is to highlight a historically important area of evolutionary developmental biology (EvoDevo) that has received little attention from developmental and evolutionary biologists during much of the past century: evolutionary innovation. This is the question of how new phenotypic characters arise during phylogeny, a phenomenon not adequately addressed by investigations that focus solely on genetic variation. Recent advances in developmental biology, however, have brought to the fore mechanisms that can provide the bases, beyond incremental variation, of evolutionary novelties. The symposium, which is at the intersection of developmental and evolutionary biology, will be important for several reasons. First, individual investigators who have worked independently on the problem of innovation will be brought together to learn about the range of approaches that have been pursued. Second, the particular relevance of the topic of innovation for the new field of EvoDevo will be demonstrated to a wider audience. Third, the integration of empirical results into an expanded theoretical framework of evolution will be facilitated. Fourth, an emerging new research agenda pertaining explicitly to the developmental analysis of the problem of evolutionary innovation will be sharpened and will thus visibly enlarge the scope of EvoDevo. To achieve these goals, we have assembled a group of speakers who represent some of the most eminent people in their fields, who all have addressed the innovation issue in their work. It includes paleontologists who study the large scale patterns of innovation, developmental biologists who study specific cases in plants and animals, molecular biologists who concentrate on the evolution of the regulatory genome, computational biologists working on the evolution of development, and evolutionary biologists concerned with the implications of this kind of work for evolutionary theory. To our knowledge this will be the first comprehensive symposium on innovation directed to the community of EvoDevo researchers.