Workshop on Phenotypic and Developmental Plasticity, December 15-20, 2007; Trivandrum & Kerala, India

该奖项旨在资助一个由一名资深科学家和三名初级科学家组成的美国代表团参加将于2007年12月16日至20日在印度喀拉拉邦特里凡得琅举行的“表型和发育可塑性”研讨会。 会议的主题是及时的，非常适合发展和有机生物学领域的现状。该会议汇集了50-55名高度不同背景的科学家，以确定如何有效地处理和概念化表型和发育可塑性的多方面问题。 预计跨学科界限的表型和发育可塑性的一般和共同特征以及一些学科特定的方面将浮出水面，并将刺激合作努力，导致未来要求国家科学基金会提供研究支持。美国研究生因其在表型和发育可塑性领域的研究兴趣和活动而被选中，预计将从与一系列备受推崇，活跃和国际联系的科学家的深入科学讨论中受益匪浅，并在会议论文集中发表他们的研究成果。 该提案由综合和有机系统部门的发展系统计划的演变和国际科学工程办公室共同资助。

This is an award to support travel for a U.S. delegation of one senior and three junior scientists to a workshop on "Phenotypic and Developmental Plasticity," to be held in Trivandrum, Kerala, India, from December 16-20, 2007. The topic of the meeting is timely and highly appropriate to the current state of the field in developmental and organismal biology. The meeting brings together 50-55 scientists of highly disparate backgrounds in order to establish how to effectively approach and conceptualize the multifaceted problems in phenotypic and developmental plasticity. It is anticipated that general and common features of phenotypic and developmental plasticity across disciplinary boundaries will come to light as well as some discipline-specific aspects, and that collaborative efforts leading to future requests for research support from the National Science Foundation will be stimulated. The U.S. graduate students have been chosen for their research interests and activities in the areas of phenotypic and developmental plasticity and are expected to greatly benefit from intensive scientific discussion with an array of highly regarded, active, and internationally connected scientists and by publication of their research findings in the conference proceedings. This proposal is co-funded by the Evolution of Developmental Systems Program in the Division of Integrative and Organismal Systems and by the Office of International Science & Engineering.