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

0343073纽曼所描述的项目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期间举行。该研讨会是由学会进化发育生物学部门组织的以前研讨会的主题延续，该部门也得到了美国国家科学基金会的支持。本次研讨会的目标是突出进化发育生物学（EvoDevo）的一个历史性的重要领域，在过去的世纪的大部分时间里，进化创新很少受到发育和进化生物学家的关注。这是一个新的表型性状如何在遗传过程中出现的问题，这一现象没有被仅仅关注遗传变异的研究所充分解决。 然而，发育生物学的最新进展已经使超越增量变异的进化新奇性的机制脱颖而出。这次研讨会，这是在发展和进化生物学的交叉点，将是重要的几个原因。首先，将召集独立研究创新问题的个人研究者，以了解所采用的各种方法。 第二，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，将促进将经验结果纳入一个扩大的进化理论框架。第四，一个新兴的新的研究议程，明确涉及进化创新问题的发展分析将得到加强，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，他们都在他们的工作中解决了创新问题。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，致力于发展进化的计算生物学家，以及关注这种工作对进化理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.