Key Innovations in Animal Systematics and Evolution: An SICB Symposium in Phoenix, AZ, January 5, 2007

这项资助将于2007年1月在亚利桑那州凤凰城举行的综合与比较生物学学会会议上举办一次专题讨论会。研讨会的题目是动物进化中的关键转折。研讨会汇集了不同的领先分子和生物生物学家，讨论当前有关动物形态进化的争议。由于过去用于研究动物生命进化的方法多种多样，本次研讨会将尝试整合从分子和有机体角度讨论的关于动物形态的主题。在这种背景下，关于导致动物形态难以置信的多样性的关键转变的想法可以通过两种生物学方法进行讨论和整合。预计本次研讨会上这些逾期的讨论将在一段时间内塑造未来对后生动物进化关键转变的研究。

Funding from this grant helps implement a symposium at the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology meetings in Phoenix Arizona in January, 2007. The title of the symposium is Key Transitions in Animal Evolution. The symposium brings together a diverse group of leading molecular and organismal biologists to discuss current controversies concerning the evolution of animal form. Because of the diversity of approaches used in the past to examine the evolution of animal life, the symposium will attempt to integrate topics on animal form that have been addressed from molecular and organismal perspectives. In this context, ideas about the key transitions that have led to the incredible diversity of animal forms can be discussed and integrated by both approaches to biology. It is expected that these overdue discussions in this symposium will shape future research on key transitions in metazoan evolution for some time.