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

0343073纽曼描述的项目是进化创新研讨会，将于2004年1月5-9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期间举行。该专题讨论会是该学会进化发育生物学分部以前举办的专题讨论会的延续，该专题讨论会也得到了国家科学基金会的支持。这次研讨会的目标是强调进化发展生物学(EvoDevo)的一个历史上重要的领域，在过去一个世纪的大部分时间里，这个领域几乎没有受到发展和进化生物学家的关注：进化创新。这是一个新的表型特征是如何在系统发育过程中出现的问题，这一现象没有被仅仅关注遗传变异的研究充分解决。然而，发育生物学的最新进展已经提出了一些机制，这些机制可以提供进化新颖性的基础，而不仅仅是渐进式变化。这次研讨会处于发育生物学和进化生物学的交汇点，出于几个原因，它将是重要的。首先，将召集在创新问题上独立工作的个人调查人员，以了解所采取的各种方法。第二，将向更广泛的受众展示创新主题与EvoDevo新领域的特殊相关性。第三，将促进将经验结果整合到扩展的进化理论框架中。第四，明确与进化创新问题的发展分析有关的新的研究议程将得到加强，从而将明显扩大EvoDevo的范围。为了实现这些目标，我们召集了一群演讲者，他们代表了各自领域的一些最杰出的人，他们都在自己的工作中讨论了创新问题。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，专注于调节基因组进化的分子生物学家，致力于发育进化的计算生物学家，以及关注这类工作对进化论的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.